SPIEGEL, LAURIE — Harmonices Mundi
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Eine von 14 einseitig bespielten LPs aus der LANTHANIDE-Serie zum 10jährigen Bestehen des Labels TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS – in klarem oder farbigem Vinyl und auf einer Vinylseite kunstvoll mit metallic oder floureszierender Farbe besiebdruckt !!!! Edel !
Hier ein grossartiges Stück von 1977 von LAURIE SPIEGEL, sirenhafte, angespannte Elektro-Drones die sich überlagern und verwirbeln... kommt auf goldfarben bedrucktem blauen Vinyl !
"Since breaking away from downtown New York scene in the early 1980s, a scene she had helped create, Spiegel has lived as one of New York's most independent musicians, supporting herself by her software and circulating her music privately. The track on this release -- previously unreleased in its entirety -- is one of her most legendary: a realization of Kepler's 'Harmony of the Planets', originally commissioned in 1975 by Dr. Carl Sagan for inclusion on the Golden Record which accompanies the Voyager II spacecraft, and is now far beyond the orbit of Pluto in the vastness of interstellar space." [press release]
“ Perhaps the most historically relevant in the series, Laurie Speigel's piece for the Lanthanides 12" series was commissioned in 1975 by Carl Sagan to be included on the golden disc included on the Voyager II spacecraft (which is now beyond the orbit of Pluto moving into deeper space). Harmonices Mundi is Spiegel's realization of the "harmony of the spheres", a celestial harmony of the planets' relationships envisioned by the ancient Greeks, and updated in 1619 by Johannes Kepler after discovering the true paths of the planets around the sun were in fact elliptical. The technology to convert these relationships into sound, however, would not exist until the computer bcame a viable instrument for making sound and music. Spiegel's instrumental interpretation is grand and sweeping. A repetitive and hypnotic cycle of siren like tones, sweeping majestically across a static sonic palette, overlapping and moving outward, seemingly to the ends of the universe, like ripples in a galaxy-wide pond. Fans of modern high end drone/skree (Sunroof!, Birchville Cat Motel, etc.) will glimpse will recognise this as a definite sonic precursor. On clear gold vinyl (like that legendary golden disc), with Voyager II's galaxial trajectory and Spiegel's Harmonices Mundi score silkscreened in black ink.” [Aquarius Records]
Hier ein grossartiges Stück von 1977 von LAURIE SPIEGEL, sirenhafte, angespannte Elektro-Drones die sich überlagern und verwirbeln... kommt auf goldfarben bedrucktem blauen Vinyl !
"Since breaking away from downtown New York scene in the early 1980s, a scene she had helped create, Spiegel has lived as one of New York's most independent musicians, supporting herself by her software and circulating her music privately. The track on this release -- previously unreleased in its entirety -- is one of her most legendary: a realization of Kepler's 'Harmony of the Planets', originally commissioned in 1975 by Dr. Carl Sagan for inclusion on the Golden Record which accompanies the Voyager II spacecraft, and is now far beyond the orbit of Pluto in the vastness of interstellar space." [press release]
“ Perhaps the most historically relevant in the series, Laurie Speigel's piece for the Lanthanides 12" series was commissioned in 1975 by Carl Sagan to be included on the golden disc included on the Voyager II spacecraft (which is now beyond the orbit of Pluto moving into deeper space). Harmonices Mundi is Spiegel's realization of the "harmony of the spheres", a celestial harmony of the planets' relationships envisioned by the ancient Greeks, and updated in 1619 by Johannes Kepler after discovering the true paths of the planets around the sun were in fact elliptical. The technology to convert these relationships into sound, however, would not exist until the computer bcame a viable instrument for making sound and music. Spiegel's instrumental interpretation is grand and sweeping. A repetitive and hypnotic cycle of siren like tones, sweeping majestically across a static sonic palette, overlapping and moving outward, seemingly to the ends of the universe, like ripples in a galaxy-wide pond. Fans of modern high end drone/skree (Sunroof!, Birchville Cat Motel, etc.) will glimpse will recognise this as a definite sonic precursor. On clear gold vinyl (like that legendary golden disc), with Voyager II's galaxial trajectory and Spiegel's Harmonices Mundi score silkscreened in black ink.” [Aquarius Records]