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| | | new world (usa) #nw 80644 cd “pioneers of electronic music” compact disc - vladimir ussachevsky - sonic contours (7:19) 1952
- otto luening - low speed (3:41) 1952
- otto luening - invention in twelve notes (3:42) 1952
- otto luening - fantasy in space (2:51) 1952
- otto luening & vladimir ussachevsky - incantation (2:32) 1953
- otto luening - moonflight (2:55) 1968
- vladimir ussachevsky - piece for tape recorder (5:38) 1956
- pril smiley - kolyosa (6:37) 1970
- bülent arel - stereo electronic music no. 2 (14:18) 1970
- vladimir ussachevsky - computer piece no. 1 (3:42) 1968
- vladimir ussachevsky - two sketches for a computer piece (sketch 1) (0:56) 1971
- vladimir ussachevsky - two sketches for a computer piece (sketch 2) (2:10) 1971
mario davidovsky - synchronisms no. 5 (8:32) 1969
- alice shields - the transformation of ani (9:04) 1970
| essential disc, containing the earliest electronic pieces by vladimir ussachevsky and otto luening, originally released on the 1952 desto lp “tape music: an historic concert,” plus a few key works composed at the columbia-princeton electronic music center during the tail-end of the 60s under ussachevsky’s tutelage...
while this doesn’t contain my personal favorite selection of ussachevsky’s music (for that refer to the “film music” disc :: new world #nw 80389) the pril smiley, bülent arel, and alice shields pieces are all entirely bonkers... the leaps and bounds in both complexity & frequency-range between the ussachevsky/luening 50s material and that from 15 years later as far a single-disc overview of historical east-coast electronic music, this can’t be beat ... |
| | new world press release... |
| works by vladimir ussachevsky, otto luening, pril smiley, bülent arel, mario davidovsky, alice shields
in 1950, the columbia university music department requisitioned a tape recorder to use in teaching and for recording concerts. in 1951, the first tape recorder arrived, an ampex 400, and vladimir ussachevsky, then a junior faculty member, was assigned a job that no one else wanted: the care of the tape recorder. this job was to have important consequences for ussachevsky and the medium he developed. electronic music was born.
over the next ten years, ussachevsky and his collaborators established the columbia-princeton electronic music center, which ussachevsky directed for twenty years. it was the first large electronic music center in the united states, thanks to the path-breaking support of the rockefeller foundation and encouragement from two of the country’s leading universities. the center became one of the best-known and most prolific sources of electronic music in the world. all of the music on this historic reissue (originally released on cri) is the result of the pioneering work of the center and its composers.
the guest composers and columbia-associated composers who have produced pieces at the center include bülent arel, luciano berio, mario davidovsky, jacob druckman, arthur kreiger, daria semegen, pril smiley, and edgard varèse. ussachevsky’s own students at the center included jon appleton, wendy carlos, charles dodge, robert moog, alice shields, harvey sollberger, and charles wuorinen. of the seven composers most closely associated with the center from its early years, six are present on this disc. |
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