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Gordon Mumma
Studio Restrospect
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.date Mar-27-2005
.style Avantgarde
.label Lovely Music
.cat.no. LCD 1093
.source CDDA
.type Album
.quality VBRkbps 44.1hz Joint-Stereo
.size 111,6 MB
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A collection of six compositions made in electronic music studios from
1959 to 1984. All were composed for concert hall or theater performance
with choreography, as well as for distribution on recordings.
"Long-awaited CD collection of early electronic works from this Sonic
Arts Union member (along with Alvin Lucier, Robert Ashley, and David
Behrman) and co-founder (with Ashley) of the Cooperative Studio for
Electronic Music in Ann Arbor, MI (rumoured the first EMS in the US) as
well as the ONCE festival(s, 66-74), not to mention his involvement with
John Cage and David Tudor as one of the principal composers for the
Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Oh yeah, and Mumma 'was among the first
composers to employ circuitry of his own design in compositions and
performance.' Features the pieces 'Retrospect' (1959, whose 'Densities'
interlude beat B.Gunter et.al to the punch [line] by about 30 years),
'Music from the Venezia Space Theatre' (1964, as brilliant a headfuck as
implied), 'The Dresden Interleaf 13 February 1945' (1965, after six
minutes of near-silent ghost echoes, one thousand bees invade for
exactly 25 seconds, then...), 'Echo-D' (1978, harpsichord and Buchla box
sources are given 15 minutes in which to roam freely), 'Pontpoint'
(1966-80), and 'Epifont' (1984). Mumma's been one of the more obscured
blokes in possession of a misfiring neuro-transmitter set (his 'portable
recording apparatus' and related getup puts the MD sham-antics of the
Lucky Kitchen set to shame) and what with the 'electron-archaica'
movement being graced with it's own Ellipsis Arts boxset (like they were
all fucking Babenzele Pygmies) you'll surely find a local pen-pal with
which to co-tirade on themes of his inherent era genius and contemporary
shadow-likeness (as far as output is concerned, although 1987's
video-performance of his 1974 piece 'Some voltage drop' wherein 'various
parts of musical piece are played on musical saw in an empty amusement
park; other part is electronic squeals emitted from accelerometers'
would make Gord seem at bat w/old demons) over firelight and fine tawny
port. Music, alive, perhaps crawling towards the sun."
--Hrvatski@Forced Exposure
Some of the tracks on this disc are binaural - if this -APE encode isn't
good enough for your appreciation of these tracks, feel free to buy the CD
yourself.
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01 retrospect (1959-1982) 10:26
02 music from the venezia space theatre (1964) 12:01
03 the dresden interleaf 13 february 1945 (1965) 12:20
04 echo-d (1978) 14:54
05 pontpoint (1966-1980) 15:47
06 epifont (1984) 04:21
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69:49 min
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