OTTO LUENING/VLADIMIR USSACHEVSKY Tape Recorder Music LP/'55 US/Musique Concrete

Description: OTTO LUENING/VLADIMIR USSACHEVSKY 'Tape Recorder Music' LP (UK, Cacophonic, Catalogue #7CACKLP) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2013 Cacophonic label vinyl edition of rare and highly sought-after Musique Concrete/Tape Music/Modern Composition album, originally released in 1955, by Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky. For fans of the unsettling, eerie and creepy vibe of early Academic Electronic Music, Musique Concrete and other tripped out avant-garde sound stylings from the '50s and '60s. (NOTE: ALL RECORDS ARE PACKED AND SHIPPED IN PROFESSIONAL, SUPERIOR QUALITY RECTANGULAR SHAPED, CORNER PROTECTING CORRUGATED CARDBOARD RECORD MAILERS WITH FILLER PADS. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED!) (NOTE: BRAND NEW/FACTORY SEALED ITEM!) (NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!) Cacophonic's 2013 reissue; originally released in 1955. One of the very earliest and most important examples of electronic tape music to be pressed on vinyl (alongside the Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française musique concrète compilations in France and Jim Fassett's comedic 1953 Strange to Your Ears novelty record), this privately pressed 1955 10" was released on a one-off label owned by businessman Gene Bruck to document a custom-made performance at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1952. This facsimile edition of this important LP archives remastered versions of the first recorded unison of Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky, a partnership that founded the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center at Columbia University in 1959, which would later count İlhan Mimaroğlu, Wendy Carlos, Dariush Dolat-Shahi, and Alice Shields among its graduates. The October 28, 1952, performance showcased the debut of the seminal "Fantasy in Space," based on resampled flute recordings that were manipulated on magnetic tape to create an otherworldly melodic composition, stylistically begging comparison with the early recordings of Kraftwerk (made some 20 years later) and bringing a palatable and tuneful alternative to the stark avant-garde experiments of the pair's French counterparts. The mechanical construction of the track was even "performed" on primetime American television to celebrate this groundbreaking approach to modern music. The record's full program includes further experiments with manipulated recordings of bells and woodwind instruments subjected to mechanical "augmentation, diminution and retrograding" to create pieces that "cannot be played with conventional instruments." In the following years labels like Folkways and Desto would also plunder this important session as a milestone in electronic music. For the purposes of this release Cacophonic have also included the seldom-heard 14-minute track "Poem in Cycles and Bells" for tape recorder and orchestra, which was recorded using the same techniques with the Royal Danish Radio Orchestra in 1956 and released via the Composers Recordings Inc. label founded by Luening himself in 1954 (employing Ussachevsky in an advisory capacity). CRI operated for 49 years, releasing records by Harry Partch, Alwin Nikolais, John Cage, and Alice Shields. Also included in this edition is an expansion of the rare 10" original artwork by legendary graphic designer Ronald Clyne, an early example of his work made before he became in-house designer for Folkways Records, rivaling the likes of Blue Note's Reid Miles for some of America's most iconic record sleeves. - First reissue, expanded and remastered, of Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky's Tape Recorder Music (1955), one of the very earliest and most important examples of electronic tape music to be pressed on vinyl. - The first recorded unison of Luening and Ussachevsky, a partnership that founded the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center at Columbia University in 1959, which would later count İlhan Mimaroğlu, Wendy Carlos, Dariush Dolat-Shahi, and Alice Shields among its graduates. - Features an expansion of the rare 10" original artwork by legendary graphic designer Ronald Clyne, who would later become the in-house designer for Folkways Records. Tracks on this LP are as follows:A1 Sonic ContoursA2 Fantasy In SpaceA3 IncantationA4 Invention In Twelve NotesA5 Low SpeedB1 Poems In Cycles And Bells Shipping rates to the following locations at this present time (note: all shipping rates are subject to change.) Shipping in US (including ALASKA & HAWAII), PUERTO RICO (MEDIA MAIL) is $6.98. Shipping to CANADA (AIRMAIL) is $19.98. Shipping to MEXICO (AIRMAIL) is $23.98. Shipping to UK, EUROPE, RUSSIA, ASIA, GREECE, ISRAEL, TURKEY, CHINA, JAPAN, KOREA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS, ETC. (AIRMAIL) is $23.98. Shipping to BRAZIL (AIRMAIL) is $23.98. Shipping totals will be consolidated for multiple orders/winning bids. Record shipped in professional, superior rectangular shaped, corner-protecting corrugated cardboard record mailer with filler pads. 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Price: 34.98 USD

Location: Manitou Springs, Colorado

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