'59 Folkways Electronic Experimental LP Vortex FSS-6301
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Released on the yellow Folkways label(#FSS-6301)and is titled "Highlights Of Vortex".
Mega-rare original lp of electronic music from the legendary multimedia theater happenings which took place at the Morrison Planetarium in San Francisco during the late 1950s. Vortex was a series of events founded by sound artist/experimental DJ Henry Jacobs and filmmaker Jordan Belson in association with Berkely radio station KPFA and the California Academy of Sciences, presenting "a new form of theatre based on the combination of electronics, optics and architecture." Its soundtrack consisted of musique concrete made by Jacobs along with a host of obscure local composers, ethnic field recordings, and avant garde works by composers such as Toru Takemitsu, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Luciano Berio, while a room-filling light show entranced the audience, and 40 speakers rotated around them creating "a whirlpool of sound." The stunning early tape music compositions on this lp incorporate field recordings, percussive tape loops, primitive delay systems and filters, and processed sounds derived from diverse sources including voices, tablas, flutes, guitars, Hatian drums, bells, piano strings, car engines, and pots and pans. All in all, an essential artifact of obscure early American musique concrete.
This lp should be of interest to fans of early electronic composers like Tod Dockstader, Jon Appleton, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, INA-GRM, Luc Ferrari, Francois Bayle, Francois Bernard Mache, Ivo Malec, John Cage, Christian Marclay, Bernard Parmegiani, Rune Lindblad, Henk Badings, Dick Raaijmakers, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Edgard Varese, Raymond Scott, Herbert Eimert, Jim Fassett, Iannis Xenakis, and Bruce Haack.
Cover and Vinyl are VG+.
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