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series of electronic compositions from the USA with works by Charles
Dodge, who made a big splash in the 1970s as one of the earlier
composers using computers to generate electronic sounds. His Earth's Magnetic Field established
his reputation and is still his best known work (it is available in a
compilation CD on CRI records). Track 32 is a realization of a radio play by Samuel Beckett, using a combination of natural and computer-synthesized voice sounds to represent the different player, accompanied in places by computer-generated electronic sounds. The effect is fascinatingly bleak if you have the patience for it. The other tracks are respectively for trumpet and tape, instrumental ensemble (without electronics, but I figured I'd throw it in), and computer-generated sounds. The LP from which track 35 was transcribed has a rather annoying surface blemish for the first couple of minutes that I couldn't completely eliminate with click reduction. My apologies. It sounds quite nice after that, and the other tracks are fine except for minor tracking distortion in the last few minutes of track 32 (not surprising, given that they crammed 32 minutes on one LP side). The installment includes a PDF file with scans of the liner notes from the three LPs transcribed for this installment. To download
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