From Et Pharmacistic Paradoxia Sent Wed, May 27th 1998, 04:42
From Et Pharmacistic Paradoxia Sent Wed, May 27th 1998, 04:42
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Hrvatski wrote:
> >i noticed that the Columbia/Princeton axis got mention - i dunno',
> >personally, i'm not too down with it, but if you're interested, Ussachevsky
> >is probably the best place to start. there's a so-so introduction-type
> >disc to the Columbia/Princeton sound off of CRI called "Pioneers of
> >Electronic Music". it has Ussachevsky, Smiley, Alice Shields, etc...
Yeah, this is a entertaining record set (Music From Columbia/Princeton...
box) and has great pictures of giant rack-mount ring-modulators in the
book inside to scratch your head and go "I wonder what all those cool
boxes do?"
> i mention this stuff for historical reasons. they were by no means the
> first, but they did some astounding stuff all around (my best experience
> with it is a bunch a flexi-discs that came with a 60's book on the new
> electronic revolution in compostion). where as the revolutionary pieces of
> schaeffer and henry are more high-art-leaning, the columbia-princeton stuff
> has more of that kid-next-door kind of fascination with sound and dwells on
> the simple concept of being able to slow down and speed up time/sound.
great observation! I foolishly avoided the college lab stuff for a couple
of years thinking that it was going to be more boring, now I'd trade my
so-so Xenakis tracks for it any day...
> after meeting max matthews some time back, i realised that they were
> working almost completely independently of the whole ina/grm and darmstadt
> packs. the cri cd is a good representation as is the original columbia
> 'music from columbia-princeton electronic music center' lp that should
> still be around. Also the wergo "historical cd of digital sound synthesis"
> has some stuff on it that i swear could be rephlex, only it's from 1956...
> pretty staggering. -Hrvatski.
Another really enteraining CD set related on the more modern vein: there
is a great Swedish(?) Text-Sound Poetry reading cd of tracks from the
whole 60's-70's poetry art sub-genre where syllables are cut up, run
through synths, vocoded w/distortion, and every gamut of tape slicing and
tape echo is used. sorry I can't remember the label...
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