SPIEGEL, LAURIE — Obsolete Systems
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Eine der wenigen Veröffentlichungen der Chicagoer Elektronik / Experimental-Komponistin, mit Stücken aus den 70er und 80ern, das reicht von sehr experimentellen grummelig-klappernden Drones bis hin zu TANGERINE DREAM-artigen Synth-Flächen, fantastisch das düstere "Voices Within: A Requiem" von 1979...
"Laurie Spiegel, electronic music pioneer, has worked with cutting-edge electronic instruments since the 1970s. She has written software and designed systems and she is also a wonderful composer! And the music on this CD is so talented, beautiful, and fascinating that it becomes a stunning demonstration of how musical and expressive technology can be. Spiegel writes: "Each musical instrument, whether electronic or not, implies an aesthetic domain and sensibility unique to its design. This comprises both its sonic output and the method whereby a human being interacts with it to form and control that sonic output. With new instrument designs having proliferated almost exponentially in recent years, I am pleased to see increasingly widespread interest in those historic few which, though now obsolete and limited in many ways compared to current technology, succeeded aesthetically and musically. These are a few I've personally explored. When it was new, each of these music systems, now long obsolete, was state of the art, visionary, radically new and so revolutionary that it required extended explanations in response to common questions such as 'Why would anyone ever want to do that?'" This CD will give you insights into instruments, knowledge of Laurie Spiegel's work through informative and beautifully written liner notes, and lovely music.
"Swells" (1972), Electrocomp 100 modular analog synthesizer
"Mines" (1971), Modular analog synthesizer, built by Don Buchla, mid-1960s. "Crying Tone" (1975), Electrocomp 100 modular analog synthesizer. "A Garden" (1970), Buchla 100 modular analog synthesizer with tape delay. "Improvisation on a "Concerto Generator" " (1977), Realtime digital audio synthesizer by Hal Alles et al, Bell Labs
"A Harmonic Algorithm" (1981 version), Apple II computer with Mountain Hardware oscillator boards. "Three Modal Pieces" (1983)
"Immersion" (1983) McLeyvier computer-controlled analog synthesis music system "Drums" (1975), GROOVE Hybrid System at Bell Labs
"Voices Within: A Requiem" (1979), Electrocomp with classic tape techniques & Echoplex." [label info]
www.emf.org
"Laurie Spiegel, electronic music pioneer, has worked with cutting-edge electronic instruments since the 1970s. She has written software and designed systems and she is also a wonderful composer! And the music on this CD is so talented, beautiful, and fascinating that it becomes a stunning demonstration of how musical and expressive technology can be. Spiegel writes: "Each musical instrument, whether electronic or not, implies an aesthetic domain and sensibility unique to its design. This comprises both its sonic output and the method whereby a human being interacts with it to form and control that sonic output. With new instrument designs having proliferated almost exponentially in recent years, I am pleased to see increasingly widespread interest in those historic few which, though now obsolete and limited in many ways compared to current technology, succeeded aesthetically and musically. These are a few I've personally explored. When it was new, each of these music systems, now long obsolete, was state of the art, visionary, radically new and so revolutionary that it required extended explanations in response to common questions such as 'Why would anyone ever want to do that?'" This CD will give you insights into instruments, knowledge of Laurie Spiegel's work through informative and beautifully written liner notes, and lovely music.
"Swells" (1972), Electrocomp 100 modular analog synthesizer
"Mines" (1971), Modular analog synthesizer, built by Don Buchla, mid-1960s. "Crying Tone" (1975), Electrocomp 100 modular analog synthesizer. "A Garden" (1970), Buchla 100 modular analog synthesizer with tape delay. "Improvisation on a "Concerto Generator" " (1977), Realtime digital audio synthesizer by Hal Alles et al, Bell Labs
"A Harmonic Algorithm" (1981 version), Apple II computer with Mountain Hardware oscillator boards. "Three Modal Pieces" (1983)
"Immersion" (1983) McLeyvier computer-controlled analog synthesis music system "Drums" (1975), GROOVE Hybrid System at Bell Labs
"Voices Within: A Requiem" (1979), Electrocomp with classic tape techniques & Echoplex." [label info]
www.emf.org