ELECTRONOMUSIC 9 IMAGES JOHN PFEIFFER ELECTRONIC AVANT SYNTH LP musique concrete
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John Pfeiffer: Electronomusic - 9 Images
Original French pressing on the RCA label (940060). Comes in a unique cover.
This archive keeper copy comes from the collection of a former recordshop employee that only played his records once to record them. Hence the
Condition:
The record and the laminated sleeve are in NEAR MINT condition.
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Great and hard to find lp with little-known experimental electronic works created by this veteran RCA producer in his own private studio. These studies in sound patterns, undated but probably all from the 60s, are endearingly primitive and show the influence of the Columbia-Princeton set (Vladimir Ussachevsky, Otto Luening, Ilhan Mimaroglu, etc.). Pfeiffer claims he is trying to infuse his work with a more popular aesthetic as a reaction against "radical avant-gardism," and amidst his abstract soundscapes, recurring melodies and repetition (sometimes bordering on minimalism) can be heard. The highlight is the great After Hours, a musique concrete collage of sounds from "the modern business office"; telephones and filing cabinets become "percussion instruments of a mammoth orchestra. We imagine that they could dispose themselves in rigorous rhythm..." Pfeiffer incorporates microtonal scales but often returns to the traditional diatonic to invoke a sense of tranquility and "musical security." His stated goal is to use "musically organized sound built from electronic technology" to "order the sensory being to re-form time, space, and their occupants."
Warm-Up, Canon and Peace (For Inharmonic Side-Band); Reflection of a String (For Contraformer); Drops (For Programmer and Sines); Moments (Events for Parametric Blocks); Take Off (For Metric Transperformer); Forests (Modes for Alphormer and Set); Pavone (A Duotonic Transform); Orders (For Sequential Sines); After Hours (For Ordered Simpliformer)label & cat. no.:RCA VICS-1371pressed in:USAdate:1968format:LP
Pfeiffer was a jazz pianist, composer, and audio engineer who helped pioneer stereo, quadrophonic, and digital recording techniques; he was known primarily for producing many of RCA's greatest classical recordings during the Living Stereo era, working in the studio with artists like Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Rubinstein, Van Cliburn, Wanda Landowska, Leontyne Price, Arturo Toscanini, Fritz Reiner, Leopold Stokowski, Eugene Ormandy, and Charles Munch. • Will be of interest to fans of Raymond Scott, Bruce Haack, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Francois Bayle, Luc Ferrari, Tod Dockstader, Autechre, Pauline Oliveros, Milton Babbitt, Steve Reich, Herbert Eimert, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Bernard Parmegiani, Oskar Sala, and Cecil Leuter.
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