"This was billed as the first performance of ''In C'' by an all-electronic ensemble, and it was exciting to see on the same platform such a diverse array of people and machines: Robert Moog and one of his classic synthesizers, Donald Buchla and an apparatus from which sounds were squeezed out by mallets, Zeena Perkins and a small electronic harp making decisive attacks, Pauline Oliveros on accordion, two members of the X-ecutioners niftily handling turntables, Greg Howard adding grungy harmonies on his Chapman stick, John Musto and George Steel often keeping the pulse steady and fast on a Yamaha Disklavier, and many more, on instruments both standard (electric guitar, ondes martenot, theremin) and irregular."
Title link takes you to the review. Unfortunately there aren't any images or clips. If anyone knows more about this event please feel free to comment. It must have been amazing just to see them all together on state.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
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"CBS had no idea what they had in Switched-On Bach. When it came out, they lumped it in at a studio press party for Terry Riley's In C and an abysmal record called Rock and Other Four Letter Words. Carlos was so pissed off, she refused to come. So CBS, frantic to have some representation, asked me to demonstrate the synthesizer. I remember there was a nice big bowl of joints on top of the mixing console, and Terry Riley was there in his white Jesus suit, up on a pedestal, playing live on a Farfisa organ against a backup of tape delays. Rock and Other Four Letter Words went on to sell a few thousand records. In C sold a few tens of thousands. Switched-On Bach sold over a million, and just keeps going on and on.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.synthmuseum.com/moog
http://www.jesusgollonet.com/blog/2006/11/04/chuck-terry-riley-jim-bumgardner/
ReplyDeleteWhatever that sounded like, with the Moog and Buchla and all, probably sounded nothing like "In C" In ChucK. I've been listening to this for a while, and it's a great program (well, re-implementation of a program).
The idea of agorithmic composition is a fascinating one. Some good papers around the web about ideas, but, very few of them have listenable examples.
algorithmically speaking, i like this page:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nosuch.com/tjt/second.html
esp. this mp3: "23 shots of espresso"
http://www.nosuch.com/audio/23shots.mp3
Which uses an L-System algorithm.