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series of electronic compositions from the USA with works by two
composers: Bulent Arel and Mel Powell. Arel was born and raised in
Turkey before coming to the US to work at the Columbia-Princeton
Electronic Music Center. Mel Powell was Director of the Electronic
Music Studio at Yale University. The works by Arel were gathered from
various LPs, including one work from the Columbia LP featured in last
week's installment. Arel's tonal palette is (by design, I think) rather
limited, but he achieves some interesting rhythmic effects in his
electronic works. The first piece by Powell in this installment was a
favorite of mine in high school--showing me how much more bizarre
electronic music could be than the psychedelic music that I listened to
much of the time. The second and fourth pieces by Powell are acoustic
works. The LPs transcribed for this installment are all in reasonably good condition, but the combination of pressing noise characteristic of so many American releases and the hiss characteristic of much early electronic music does increase the ambient noise level in many tracks. The installment includes a PDF file with scans of the liner notes from all of the LPs in this installment as well as AGP123. To download
AGP124 files, right-click on each of the following links and select
SAVE
LINK AS. 23 – Arel, Electronic
Music No1 24 – Arel, Stereo
Electronic Music No1 30 – Powell,
Second Electronic Setting 31 – Powell, Two Prayer
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