[CP 044 CD] Electronic Music, University of Melbourne; Full Spectrum, Australian Digital Music
Creel Pone
Couldn't load pickup availability
2021 reédition, now including the intensely relatable "Full Spectrum, Australian Digital Music" compilation to the proceedings, including canonic Early Computer Music pieces & realizations of works by Percy Grainger, Tristram Cary, Warren Burt, Barry Conyngham, & Darius Clynes on a second disc!
Remarkably consistent collection of pieces composed / executed between 1973 and 1979 by students at the University of Melbourne on the megabeast of modulars: the EMS Synthi 100 - now residing, unplugged and finally at peace, at the Percy Grainger museum. Why is the Synthi 100 so impressive? Simply put, volume; I can only imagine the amount of headaches and brain-stem rot that went on went on whilst Uni students tried to get their heads around the twin patch-matrices.
The 6 composers on this disc all put in fine efforts making sense of the intricacies of this then-new technology, with all turning in excellent pieces ranging from the tick-tock Krautrock of Gary Wright’s “Impulse” to the Kosugi / Kraftwerk-ish Violin-noise / Synthi freak out of Chris Wyatt’s “Conversations” to ... however the hell one would describe / compare the dense / freaked-out analogue mess of Ken Guntar’s “Three mobiles” - okay; I'll try... Douglas Leedy’s ghost bathed in Balvenie 17 year “Very Old”, imbibed by Akos Rózmann - is that esoteric enough for you.
Share
![[CP 044 CD] Electronic Music, University of Melbourne; Full Spectrum, Australian Digital Music](http://alphastate.nyc/cdn/shop/files/cp044cd.1.2024_1445x.jpg?v=1725302436)
![[CP 044 CD] Electronic Music, University of Melbourne; Full Spectrum, Australian Digital Music](http://alphastate.nyc/cdn/shop/files/cp044cd.2.2024_1445x.jpg?v=1725302436)