quoted 5 lines i noticed that the Columbia/Princeton axis got mention - i dunno',
>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.
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