SORREL DORIS HAYS

VOICINGS FOR TAPE LP

Folkways Records

with booklet 

Rare Folkways records original from american composer Sorrel Doris Hays. Musique concrete, tape manipulation, vocal experimentations and beautiful sound collages...a step beyond Nurse with wound!!

Some info on the release:  Very rare original, released by the Folkways records label (John Cage, David Tudor, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Henry Jacobs, Tod Dockstader, Barton McLean and Gianni Safred, Barton Smith, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Travelon Gamelon, Malcolm Goldstein, Philip Corner). The album underlines vocal experimentations treated through the Buchla Electronic Music box, modulated frequencies with internal signals of the Buchla oscillators, includes tape manipulations of field recordings, uses the voices of 28 women in 28 different languages plus the voice of blues soprano singer Daisy Newman. A huge must, highest recommendation!! Don't let this get away.

Sorrel Hays was born Doris Hays in Memphis, Tennessee, but being a “sound” person she decided that “Sorrel” sings (her maternal grandmother’s family name was Sorrels) so in 1985 she adopted the name Sorrel. She studied piano for eight years with Harold Cadek at Cadek Conservatory, University of Chattanooga, graduating  in 1963. A Maclellan Foundation Scholarship allowed her to study piano and harpsichord with Friedrich Wührer and Hedwig Bilgram at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, Germany. With fellowships from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture, she remained in Munich for three years, graduating Diplom Meisterklasse. She earned a Master of Music degree at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, studying with Paul Badura-Skoda and Rudolf Kolisch. After teaching at Cornell College in Iowa, she moved to New York City where Hilde Somer was her coach in contemporary keyboard music.

In 1971 Hays won first prize at the Gaudeamus Competition for Interpreters of New Music in Rotterdam, and began her international career as a performer of contemporary music. She performed concerts at broadcasting stations in Germany, Holland, Italy and Yugoslavia,  appeared at the Como Festival and Pro Musica Nova Bremen, and was invited to celebrate John Cage's 60th birthday by performing his Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra with the Orchestra at the Hague. She gave the first performance in Europe of her own music at the Gaudeamus Composers Week in Holland in 1972, a composition called Hands and Lights for piano strings with photocell activated switches and flashlights beamed across the interior of a grand piano, a composition which she later performed for the Chattanooga Debutante Cotton Ball. During 1989-1990 Sorrel Hays was a resident artist at the Yamaha Communications and Research Center in New York City, commissioned to create music for the Yamaha MIDI Grand Piano. These pieces, 90’s, A Calendar Bracelet , for MIDI Grand and tone generator, are recorded  by Loretta Goldberg on the CD “Soundbridge” from Opus One. For a decade Hays created a series of pieces called Traveling, based on the microtonal fluctuations of tone generators. The most recent is Debushing America in collaboration with downtown diva Kristin Norderval, at the Flea Theater. "Cumulative ecstasy....contrapuntal/improv tour de force" wrote the Village Voice about the first in the series, called Take A Back Country Road, performed by Hays on electronic saxophone and DX-7 with Brian Charles on oboe, recorded on the New World label. Quite close to  Lejaren Hiller, Roger Reynolds, Alvin Lucier and of course David Behrman, Larry Austin, Jerry Hunt, Glenn Branca, Bruce Haack, Phil Niblock, Charlemagne Palestine, Noah Creshevsky and Charles Dodge. Complete albums of her music have appeared on Folkways, Finnadar and New Albion and include a wide range of works from piano music to musique concrete and experimental music.

Condition: Cover lies in excellent- condition, in tip top condition quite well preserved (see photo), its' only defect being a former owner's stamp and minimal edge bend. Vinyl lies in mint- condition, showing to be super clean, with no spindle marks or else.

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