ILHAN MIMAROGLU 1ST ELECTRONIC LP STOCKHAUSEN-JOHN CAGE

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ILHAN MIMAROGLU

 WINGS OF THE DELIRIOUS DEMON LP

Finnadar

Very rare debut release for Ilhan Mimaroglu on his own Finnadar imprint, experimental electronics and electroacoustic transformations driven to the limits.

Some info on the release: Very rare debut release on Ilhan Mimaroglu's Finnadar label that consequently released records from John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Morton Feldman, Frederic Rzewski, Doris Hays, Eric Salzman, Bulent Arel, Daria Semegen, Marcel Duchamp, Herbie Mann, Charles Ives, etc. An excellent mix of electroacoustic and electronic music tracks composed mainly in the mid-60's

?lhan Mimaro?lu is a musician and composer. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey on 11 March 1926, the son of the architect Kemalletin Mimaro?lu. He graduated from Galatasaray Lisesi (High School) in 1945 and the Ankara Law School in 1949. He went to study in New York thanks to a Rockefeller Scholarship. He studied musicology at Columbia University under Paul Henry Lang and composition under Douglas Moore.

During the 1960s he studied in the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Center under Vladimir Ussachevsky and on occasions worked with Edgard Varése and Stefan Wolpe. He is an electronic music composer, and also was the producer for Changes One (Mingus) and Federico Fellini's Satyricon. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition in 1971. He worked as a producer for Atlantic Records and collaborated with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard on a moving anti-war statement, Sing me a Song of Songmy in the same year. Known also for his records inspired and dedicated to french painter Jean Dubuffet. His notable students include Ingram Marshall.

Mimaroglu was between the first ever to make sonic experiments together Henry Jacobs, Lejaren Hiller and of course the great Henk Badings, Morton Subotnick, David Tudor, Tom Dissevelt, Tod Dockstader, Herbert Eimert, Gottfried Michael Koenig, also the musique concrete "teachers", Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer. The composer was active in a time where the art of experimentation flourished between american composers, such as Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Robert Ashley, Udo Kasemets, Roger Reynolds, Charles Amirkhanian and of course Jon Appleton, David Behrman, Ruth Anderson and Larry Austin.

Condition: Vinyl lies in excellent condition, looks very clean with no spindle marks and plays nicely all along, while cover lies in very good condition, with important damage at the opening and a stain (look picture), otherwise ok.

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