Henry Jacobs: Wide Weird World beatnik electronic 1958

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Henry Jacobs: The Wide Weird World Of Shorty Petterstein - More Interviews Of Our Time


label & cat. no.:
World Pacific WPM 412 pressed in:
USA date:
1958 format:
LP condition:
Vinyl: vg+ (few minor unfeelable marks)
Cover: vg- (top seam is mostly split) description:

Rather insane specimen of 50s experimental beatnik musique concrete spoken word satire made by Berkeley DJ, poet, and sound artist Henry Jacobs under his alter ego Shorty Petterstein. This album pretty much defies classification; try to imagine pre-psychedelic sound collages and electronic tape manipulation experiments, hilarious schizo self-interviews, and satirical stoned-out monologues on subjects like quitting smoking and drinking, the scary drums hidden inside his typewriter, and the absurdity of 1950s America. Highly recommended artifact of proto-counterculture and obscure early electronic tape music!

Jacobs is an early electronic composer, pioneering radio artist/experimental DJ at Berkeley's legendary KPFA (home of Charles Amirkhanian), ethnic/folk music researcher, multimedia theater artist who organized the Vortex happenings with Jordan Belson (where he mixed early electronic music by composers like Toru Takemitsu, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Luciano Berio on a 40-speaker system, originating the concept of surround sound), and satirist who worked with Lenny Bruce under various personas including Shorty Petterstein; he collaborated with Alan Watts (he's currently co-curator of the Alan Watts archive), members of Harry Partch's ensemble, and Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto, released albums on Folkways and World Pacific, had friendships with Mongo Santamaria and Ken Nordine, as a poet associated with members of the beat poetry movement (William S Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth), worked with George Lucas on sound design for THX 1138, and is credited with launching the first US radio program of world folk music. References: Vladimir Ussachevsky, Otto Luening, John Cage, Tod Dockstader, Jon Appleton, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Luc Ferrari, Christian Marclay, Bruce Haack, Jim Fassett, Raymond Scott... Check out my other items for more avant garde/experimental, early electronic/electroacoustic, sound art, improv, psych, space-age pop, 20th century classical, sound effects, poetry, and artist records. US Shipping - Media Mail is $5.00 for 1-2 single records, then $0.65 for each additional; Priority Mail is also available but pricing depends on zipcode (you can check eBay's calculated shipping price at the bottom of this page); other expedited shipping options and insurance are all available on request. Combine multiple items to save on shipping.
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