From R. Lim Sent Tue, Jul 20th 1999, 15:48
From R. Lim Sent Tue, Jul 20th 1999, 15:48
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Chad Mossholder wrote: > Has anyone heard David Tudor's, "Synthesis Nos. 6-9"? I have rainforest > and that is amazing! Good live electronics. I assume you're talking about _Neural Synthesis, Nos. 6-9_, the dbl CD on Lovely? It's a real head-spinner; the idea behind it was to create a fake-neural net of electronics that could take arbitrary input and create a musical piece with some element of determinism (not unlike his other works, Rainforest included, or say a straight-to-tape utilization of Ovalprocess). His aim in these kinds of pieces was to create a sort of real-time musique concrete. The results of this particular exercise is an amazingly dense binaural onslaught of electronic buzzing (definitely listen with headphones). Closest thing I can think would be Christoph Heeman's solo stuff (like _Aftersolstice_ on Barooni) or to a superficial extent, the grenade explosion part of Xenakis' _Legende d'Eer_. -rob