On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Chad Mossholder wrote:
quoted 2 lines Has anyone heard David Tudor's, "Synthesis Nos. 6-9"? I have rainforest> 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