GORDON MUMMA / MARIO DAVIDOVSKY 1967 ASPEN Flexi w/ Booklet TAPE/ELECTRONIC EX
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GORDON MUMMA : Horn / MARIO DAVIDOVSKY : In Memoriam Edgar Varèse 33 rpm 7" Flexi disc (Roaring Fork Press [USA] A-1687) 1967
Record is excellent -- it's hard to tell with flexis, but it looks like it may have never been played. Booklet is VG+ with light wear, a lightly bent corner (top right), and a few small spots of discoloration/foxing (see photos).
Great original copy of this 1967 Electronic/New Music rarity, originally included with issue 4 of Aspen magazine. This is actually two of the nine separate items included with the issue: item 5 is the 12-page booklet with the essay The Electronics of Music by Faubion Bowers and Daniel Kunin; item 6 is the accompanying record, with one side each by Davidovsky and Mumma.
Mario Davidovsky : In Memoriam Edgar Varèse
5 mins. 22 secs.
"This magnetic tape composition was done in the tape studio of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. In contrast to Horn, this composition was done entirely on magnetic tape with each sound created and controlled entirely by the composer in the tape studio."
Gordon Mumma : Horn, a coulisse from antiquity in the guise of an objet trouvé
Gordon Mumma, French Horn;
Robert Ashley, Cybersonic Console;
George Cacioppo, Cybersonic Console
6 mins. 21 secs.
"Horn is a live-performance electronic 'chance' composition. The sound source is a French Horn fitted with a special mute containing a microphone. The sounds from the microphone are fed to the two cybersonic consoles (transistorized sound modifiers). The consoles are operated by two performers who determine the continuity of the work during each performance, according to the conditions specified by the composer. Thus, the composition changes at each performance. "
See Broken Music, page 90.
See also:
http://www.ubu.com/aspen/
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