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Raymond Scott – Soothing Sounds For Baby
Back in the 1930s and ’40s, Raymond Scott was a big band composer, arranger and conductor; composer of “cartoon” jazz (whose tunes like “Powerhouse” and “Dinner Music For a Pack Of Hungry Cannibals”…
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Pierre Schaeffer – L’Oeuvre Musicale
Any article on electronic music would be woefully incomplete if Pierre Schaeffer were omitted. He invented a new form of music in 1948 called musique concrete, which involved mixing together sound effects records…
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Larry Polansky – The Theory of Impossible Melody
Larry Polansky is a composer, performer, theorist and professor who has been working since the ’70s at places like Mills College and Dartmouth. He’s also a founder of Frog Peak Music (A Composer’s…
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Bernard Parmegiani – Violostries, Pour un Finir Avec le Pouvoir d’Orphee, Dedans-Dehors, Rouge-Mort: Thanatos, Exercisme 3, Le Present Compose
Along with the François Bayle and Ivo Malec 2-CD sets, The Violostries… 2-CD is one of the major continents on the INA-GRM planet and is a required layover for any wayward electro-acoustic music…
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Bernard Parmegiani – La Creation du Monde
Bernard Parmegiani has been making stunning electro-acoustic music since 1959. Have you? La Création du Monde (1982-84) is basically the big bang theory of universal origin rendered in sound, divided into three sections.…
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Pauline Oliveros – Electronic Works
The Electronic Works CD contains three more pieces from the same time period as Alien Bog / Beautiful Soop, the 1960s. “I of IV” (1966) was originally released on the New Sounds In…
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Pauline Oliveros – Alien Bog + Beautiful Soop
This is one of two companion CD reissues of Pauline Oliveros’ electronic works of the 1960s, made when she was the first director of The Tape Music Center at Mills College. “Alien Bog”…
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Michael Obst – Metal Drops
Michael Obst (1955) is a young German composer and successful concert pianist “specializing in contemporary music” who has also been working in the electronic realm since 1979. This 1992 CD is a reissue…
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Arne Nordheim – Electric
A really beautiful and austere double-foldout digi-pak–emblazoned with large, crudely xeroxed dots on an orange background with tastefully small typesetting–contains some of the best electro-acoustic works from the late ’60s and early ’70s,…
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Attilio Mineo – Man In Space With Sounds
This is a reissue of an old LP originally released at the 1962 Seattle State World’s Fair. The music for Man In Space With Sounds was composed in 1951, recorded in 1959 and…
