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... > PO Box 382864 Cambridge, MA 02238 - 2864 ------------- Hometown of e.e.cummings! Solenoid xxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx <------+