From Hrvatski Sent Wed, May 27th 1998, 04:16
From Hrvatski Sent Wed, May 27th 1998, 04:16
>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... 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. 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. ___________________________________ Reckankreuzungs Klankewerkzeuge & Company PO Box 382864 Cambridge, MA 02238 - 2864 is online @ http://www.tiac.net/users/sheket