IRCAM:Un Portrait private electronic Risset+Subotnick++

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IRCAM un portrait-- Jean-Claude Risset: Songes (1979 for computer-generated tape) / Pierre Boulez: Repons (1982 for instrumental ensemble, computer-generated tape, and realtime electronic treatments) / Morton Subotnick: The Double Life of Amphibians (1981 for ensemble and live electronics) / John Chowning: Stria (1977 for tape) / Jonathan Harvey: Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (1980 for computer-treated concrete sounds) / Tod Machover: Soft Morning, City! (1980 for soprano, contrabass, and tape) / Mesias Maiguashca: Fmelodies (1982 for ensemble and tape) / York Holler: Resonance (1982 for chamber orchestra and computer-synthesized tape) / Examples Sonores [by various artists]. IRCAM 0001

Extremely scarce French gatefold lp privately issued in 1983 by IRCAM (l'Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique) as a document of their ongoing research into sound. Side 1 contains "sound examples," a beautiful montage of demonstrations of then state-of-the-art synthesis methods, sound experiments, newly invented electronic instruments, digital audio processing techniques, and psychoacoustic phenomenon; there are some extremely unusual sounds including computer-generated and digitally-processed speech and vocal noises, studies in spatial/stereo effects and microtonal scales, and mutated synthetic instruments which, for example, morph a piano into a woodwind and back or play violin sounds like a percussion set. Contributors to this side include most of the other composers on this disc plus Maurice Bejart, Vinko Globokar, Roger Reynolds, Harrison Birtwistle, Jean-Baptiste Barriere, and many others. Side 2 features excellent and rarely heard experimental electronic compositions by IRCAM residents (some tracks are excerpts) ranging from purely electronic works to live instrumental pieces incorporating realtime electronic processing. Performers include the Ensemble InterContemporain directed by Peter Eotvos as well as Boulez, soprano Jane Manning, contrabassist Barry Guy, engineers/assistants Gyorgy Kurtag, Marc Battier, and Stanley Haynes, and others. Highly recommended. Includes an 8 page insert with extensive charts, photos, and notes in French.

IRCAM (translation: Institute for music/acoustic research and coordination) was founded in 1969 by Georges Pompidou and Pierre Boulez "to bring science and art together in order to widen instrumentarium and rejuvenate musical language." Risset is a composer, pianist, and theoretician who studied music under Andre Jolivet and also studied mathematics and physics; he worked at IRCAM with Boulez, at Bell Labs where he met Vladimir Ussachevsky and worked with Edgard Varese, John R. Pierce, James Tenney, and Max Mathews, and as the first computer-based composer at the legendary INA-GRM musique concrete studios (center of study for electroacoustic pioneers like Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Francois Bayle, Michel Chion, Luc Ferrari, Francois Bernard Mache, Ivo Malec, Bernard Parmegiani, Michel Redolfi, Ragnar Grippe, Jon Appleton, Jean Michel Jarre, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Iannis Xenakis). Boulez is an influential postwar composer, conductor, writer, and lecturer who worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, Iannis Xenakis, and Gyorgi Ligeti, and was a student of Arnold Schoenberg and Olivier Messiaen. Subotnick is an electronic and multimedia composer who was a pupil of Leon Kirschner and Darius Milhaud, became a master of the Buchla synthesizer, worked with Joan La Barbara, and blazed the same trails as Gottfried Michael Koenig, Bulent Arel, Jon Appleton, John Eaton, Oskar Sala, Terry Riley, Salvatore Martirano, etc; his early experiments with synthesizers foreshadowed the work of recent electronic musicians such as Autechre and Aphex Twin. Chowning is a percussionist, composer, and computer music pioneer who studied under Nadia Boulanger. Machover studied under Elliot Carter and Roger Sessions. Holler is a German composer and pianist who studied with Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Herbert Eimert, and Aloys Kontarsky, and worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the WDR electronic studio.

Vinyl Condition: ex
Cover Condition: vg (front and back have numerous scuffs, a few minor wrinkles, and a couple of small tears)











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