Artist : J≤hann J≤hannsson
Title : IBM 1401, A UserÆs Manual
Genre : Classical
Year : 2006
Date : Nov-11-2006
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 05
Label : 4AD
Source : CDDA
Length : 42:52 min
Size : 58,10 MB
Tracklist:
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01.IBM 1401 Processing Unit 08:32
02.IBM 1403 Printer 09:33
03.IBM 1402 Card Read-Punch 10:23
04.IBM 729 II Magnetic Tape Unit 07:15
05.The Sun's Gone Dim And The Sky's 07:09
Turned Black
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42:52 min
IBM 1401, a Users Manual
Johann Johannsson
Johann Johannsson is an Icelandic musician, composer, producer
and an active member of the countrys artistic community (as the
founder of the Kitchen Motors label / think tank / art
collective, founder member of Apparat Organ Quartet and also as
a serial collaborator).
Johanns stately and hauntingly melodic music has been quietly
bewitching listeners for some time and his new album, IBM 1401,
A Users Manual - his most ambitiously-orchestrated composition
to date û is sure to expand his audience still further.
Inspired by a recording of an IBM mainframe computer which
Johanns father, Johann Gunnarsson, made on a reel-to-reel tape
machine more than 30 years ago, the piece was originally
written to be performed by a string quartet as the
accompaniment to a dance piece by the choreographer Erna
Omarsdottir. For the album version, Johann rewrote the entire
score, and it was recorded by a sixty-piece string orchestra.
He also added a new final section and incorporated electronics
alongside those original tape recordings of the singing
computer.
http://www.johannjohannsson.com
http://www.ausersmanual.com