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| | | paradigm (uk) #pd 18 cd trevor wishart “journey into space” compact disc - birth dream (13.03)
- journey (47.29)
- arrival (18.18)
| | click the play button to hear an excerpt of "arrival" |
| | possibly the most classic (and impossible-to-find) recordings of early british musique concrète are the two “journey into space” lps, as self-released by trevor wishart on vinyl in the early 1970s... |
| | paradigm press release... |
| trevor wishart - journey into space (pd 18)
total time 78'54"
released 2002
cd in 4 panel digipak
york university's music department houses one of the uk's first ever electronic music studios, and during the early seventies it was a hotbed of creative activity. much of the released output from the studio at this time revolved around the work of the dynamic composer trevor wishart.
journey into space was his first release, composed between 1970 and 72, and was privately pressed (shortly before the formation of yes records), as two separate lp's in 1973. (the cd cover amalgamates the 2 original designs).
along with other early private releases of experimental music in the uk (ie the lp of sound poems by cobbing/jandl, or the lp of musique concrète by desmond leslie), this record is also a total anomaly in the canon of british experimental music and has little to do with the current, or even subsequent work by wishart.
the vast length of this piece has many different styles. there are acoustic sections, mostly of junk and toys (bike bells, squeeze horns, bottles, metal tubes, combs etc.) as well as flute and brass sections that are used as raw material. there are also sections of everyday field recordings, scraps of nasa apollo transmissions, as well as plenty of multitracking, editing, vocal acrobatics and musique concrète.
among the 48 participants credited on the original sleeve are a whole roster of york university alumni including nearly all the artists who were showcased on the then unreleased 3lp box set 'electronic music from york', along with other noteworthy students as diverse as steve beresford, jonty harrison, roger marsh, dominic muldowney, bernard rands and jan steele.
he co-operative spirit of york's music and drama departments, plus the raw enthusiasm and open attitude of the participants involved in the project gave this music an immediacy, similar to the later lafms scene.
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“journey-into-space was made using the most diverse methods of sound-production and tape-composition. real-world events were collected via portable rts. miscellaneous sound-sources were collected form metal work-shops, toy-shops, builders' yeard etc. some of the material for th eoriginal source-tapes was group-improvisation on these collected objects, and/or instruments and voices .....some very free, others less so, and yet other sections strictly notated. other sound--sources were recorded individually and mixed or edited later in the studio. all these sounds were sorted, selected, pre-edited, and some treated. from this point the process of tape-composition proper could begin, the most time-consuming part of the work, involving vast ammounts of editing, mixing, re-editing, re-mixing, and treatments (speed-change, filtering, etc). in practice, all the activites outline above were pursued simultaneously, the piece growing in conception as it was being built.” |
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