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series of electronic compositions from the USA with finalists and award
winners from three years (1968-1970) of an electronic music contest
sponsored by Dartmouth College. The judges for these contests included
leading electroacoustic composers from the United States and Europe,
and entrants were received from around the world. Twelve compositions
from these contests were included in two LP releases on Turnabout
Records. Three of the compositions (from Poland and Czechoslovakia)
were featured in AGP38. One composition, by Jean-Claude Risset, is
available on a CD of Risset's works that can be bought from www.electrocd.com. The rest are
included in this installment. Track 49 is by a Chilean composer, but I
have no South American Electronic Music installments planned, so I
included it even though there's no obvious US connection. The LPs that were transcribed for this installment are in excellent condition, but the Turnabout pressings are not surprisingly on the noisy side. Fortunately, it is a constant light "hush" sound (like hiss but with a somewhat lower frequency range), rather than a more annoying variable "woosh-woosh" sound. But tracks like Ambience and Cambrian Sea that are intended to emerge from and return to silence instead emerge from and return to a pillow of light noise. The installment includes a PDF file with scans of the liner notes from the two LPs transcribed for this installment. To download
AGP129 files, right-click on each of the following links and select
SAVE
LINK AS. NOTE: Track 50
turns out to be currently available on CD, and so I have deleted that
file and replaced the link with one to Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening
Institute
website where the CD can be purchased. Dick Robinson's music can
also be heard in streaming form at his own website. 43 - Olly Wilson, Cetus [9:20] 44 - William Hellermann, Ariel
[6:56] 45 - Pril Smiley, Eclipse [8:01] 46 - Peter Glushanok, In
Memoriam for My Friend Henry Saia [10:31] 47 - Peter Klausmeyer,
Cambrian Sea [6:24] 48 - Raymond Moore, Trip Through the
Milky Way [6:05] 49 - José Vicente Asuar,
Divertimento [7:09] 50 - Richard
Allen (Dick) Robinson, Ambience [6:28] |
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