TIM SOUSTER:ELECTRONIC LP STOCKHAUSEN-CORNELIUS CARDEW

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TIM SOUSTER

 SONATA / EQUALISATION LP

Nimbus

Super Analogue Mastering / Ambisonic 

Rare ambisonic recording released on Nimbus from british composer Tim Souster. File under avant garde & live electronics.

Some info on the release:  Rare album from british composer Tim Souster on the Nimbus label. Contains 2 pieces: Equalisation for Brass Quintet and live electronics. Sonata for cello, piano, seven wind instruments and percussion.

Tim Souster initiated his relationship with electronic music back in 1964 in the summer electronic music school at Darmstadt with Karlheinz Stockhausen. In August 1969 he moved to Cambridge as composer-in-residence at King's College, where with Roger Smalley he formed the live-electronic group, Intermodulation. The other members were Robin Thompson and Andrew Powell, the latter being succeeded by Peter Britton in the autumn of 1970. Over the next six years Intermodulation toured widely in the UK, West Germany, Poland, France and Iran, playing a broad range of live-electronic compositions, in particular those written specially for the group by Souster and Smalley, but also works of Cornelius Cardew, Terry Riley, Frederick Rzewski, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Christian Wolff. In autumn 1971 Souster moved to Cologne to become teaching assistant to Stockhausen at the State Music High School, and at the end of 1973 moved on to Berlin as composer-in-residence in the West Berlin Artists' Programme (DAAD).. The years in Germany were followed in 1975 by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship at Keele University, where he was responsible for creating the electronic music studio. There he also established a new performing group, OdB, with Peter Britton and Tony Greenwood. On his return to England, Souster became once again fully freelance as a composer and set up his own electronic studio in Cambridge in 1980. From this time on he became increasingly involved in writing music for film and television.

Tim Souster was a contemporary with early electronic music composers, like the founders of musique concrete Pierre Schaeffer & Pierre Henry, also Paul Boisselet, Rune Lindblad, Herbert Eimert, Henk Badings and Dick Raaijmakers, Tom Dissevelt, Vladimir Ussachevsky and of course Luciano Berio, Otto Luening, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis and John Cage. One of the very few english composers into electronic music among Ron Geesin, Gilles Swayne, Dennis Smalley, Basil Kirchin, Desmond Leslie, Trevor Wishart, Roberto Gerhard and Peter Maxwell Davies.

Condition: Vinyl lies in mint- condition, looks crystal clear and plays like new, while cover lies in excellent- condition, with minor storage wear and tiny sticker removal on the top right corner (see picture).

Tracklist

A1   Sonata - First Movement     Bassoon - Brian Wightman
  Cello - Christopher van Kampen 
  Clarinet [Bass] - Roger Fallowes
  Clarinet [E Flat] - Anthony Pay
  Conductor - Lionel Friend
  Flute [Alto, Piccolo] - Sebastian Bell
  Oboe, Cor Anglais - Gareth Hulse
  Percussion - Gary Kettel
  Piano - Ian Brown 
  Trumpet - John Wallace 
  Tuba - John Jenkins A2   Sonata - Cadenza     Bassoon - Brian Wightman
  Cello - Christopher van Kampen 
  Clarinet [Bass] - Roger Fallowes
  Clarinet [E Flat] - Anthony Pay
  Conductor - Lionel Friend
  Flute [Alto, Piccolo] - Sebastian Bell
  Oboe, Cor Anglais - Gareth Hulse
  Percussion - Gary Kettel
  Piano - Ian Brown
  Trumpet - John Wallace 
  Tuba - John Jenkins B1   Sonata - Second Movement     Bassoon - Brian Wightman
  Cello - Christopher van Kampen 
  Clarinet [Bass] - Roger Fallowes 
  Clarinet [E Flat] - Anthony Pay
  Conductor - Lionel Friend
  Flute [Alto, Piccolo] - Sebastian Bell
  Oboe, Cor Anglais - Gareth Hulse
  Percussion - Gary Kettel
  Piano - Ian Brown
  Trumpet - John Wallace 
  Tuba - John Jenkins B2   Equalisation     Conductor - Tim Souster
  Horn - Michael Thompson 
  Trombone - Peter Goodwin
  Trumpet - Crispian Steele-Perkins, John Wallace 
  Tuba - John Jenkins

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