Morton Subotnick: 4 Butterflies Buchla Synth 1974 experimental electronic promo

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Morton Subotnick: 4 Butterflies (1974 for Buchla Electric Music Box) label & cat. no.:
Columbia Modern American Music Series M 32741 pressed in:
USA date:
1974 format:
LP condition:
Vinyl: vg+ (few light unfeelable scuffs)
Cover: vg (promo timing sticker, ring wear, bottom seam has 1" split) description:
Promo copy of one of Subotnick's harder to find Buchla synthesizer recordings. Here he continues to explore the outer limits of his custom-built Buchla Electric Music Box system for creating brilliant microtonal drones and abstract electronic madness. Moments of synthetic tribal percussion freak outs morph into eery wind-like atmospheric howls in this piece patterned after the life cycle of the butterfly. Never reissued and highly recommended.

artist info from album notes etc.:
Subotnick became prominent as an electronic and multi-media composer in the late 60s; he was a pupil of Leon Kirschner and Darius Milhaud and a master of the Buchla synth, blazed the same trails as James Tenney, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Herbert Eimert, Jean-Claude Risset, Pril Smiley, Jon Appleton, Pierre Henry, Terry Riley, Vladimir Ussachevsky, John Eaton, etc., and works often with his wife Joan La Barbara. • The Buchla synth, an early Moog competitor, was created by Donald Buchla and pioneered musician-friendly user interface innovations; it has been used by Douglas Leedy, Paul Beaver, Bernard Krause, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Bulent Arel, Ragnar Grippe, Ernst Krenek, and Daria Semegen. Check out my other items for more early electronic/synth/concrete/electroacoustic, avant garde/experimental/noise, free jazz/improv, psych, sound art, soundtracks, audiophile, and 20th century classical vinyl. US Shipping - Media Mail with tracking is $5.00 for up to 2 12" 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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