Computer Music Festival private 1979 electronic synth IBM+RCA COSMAC+Schertz+ALF

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First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival label & cat. no.:
Creative Computing CR101 pressed in:
USA date:
1979 format:
LP condition:
Vinyl: nm- (couple tiny unfeelable scuffs, looks barely if ever played)
Cover: ex- (minor wear, few small stains) description:
Scarce album privately issued by Creative Computing Magazine to document the 1978 Philadelphia Computer Music Festival (which was part of the Personal Computing '78 convention). The selections showcase the various digital audio technology available at the time, including some obscure synthesizers, featuring the RCA COSMAC, ALF, NOTRAN, Software Technology, Newtech, Solid State, and Schertz computer music systems. The machines "play" a strangely eclectic mix of pop and classical tracks by the Beatles, Scott Joplin, J.S.Bach, Rimsky-korsakov (played backwards!), Neil Diamond, Pachelbel, Johann Wanhal, and others, using mostly early video game-like sounds (think Donkey Kong-era). There's also an archival track by D.H. Van Lenten of Bell Laboratories, 'Synthesized Computer Speech Demonstration,' excerpted from the 1963 Computer Speech ep originally issued in small numbers by Bell Labs (Van Lenten was among the first researchers of computer-generated music/speech at Bell Labs along with Max Mathews, John R. Pierce, Newman Guttman, James Tenney, Jean-Claude Risset, etc.). Includes insert with additional notes about the festival and the magazine (with headings like 'What is computer music?' and 'The personal computer revolution').

Should be of interest to fans of computer musicians and early electronic pop artists like Gottfried Michael Koenig, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Barry Vercoe, J.K. Randall, Raymond Scott, Bruce Haack, Pierre Henry, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Gershon Kingsley, Robert Moog, Tom Dissevelt, Donald Buchla, Paul Lansky, Jon Appleton, Pietro Grossi, and Piero Umiliani. Check out my other items for more early electronic/synth/concrete/electroacoustic, avant garde/experimental/noise, free jazz/improv, psych, sound art, soundtracks, audiophile, and 20th century classical vinyl. US Shipping - Media Mail with tracking is $5.00 for up to 2 12" records, then $0.65 for each additional; Priority Mail is also available but pricing depends on zipcode (you can check eBay's calculated shipping price at the bottom of this page); other expedited shipping options and insurance are all available on request. Combine multiple items to save on shipping.
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