David Behrman - On The Other Ocean Lovely Music LML 1041 LP 1st Pressing

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Label/Catalog Number:  Lovely Music, Ltd.   LML 1041

Condition: 
     Media:   NM  Very, very light spotting on some areas of grooves, but no effect on audio at all. Labels in perfect shape.   (see photos)     
     Sleeve:  NM  There is no cover wear except very slight on upper left corner, no seam splits, no stains. Very close to just brought home
                            from the record shop condition.  (see photos)
     Matrix:   S1:   LML-1041-A     S2:  LML-1042-B
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Tracklist
A     On The Other Ocean
                                            Bassoon – Arthur Stidfole;   Engineer – "Blue" Gene Tyranny;   Flute – Maggi Payne   23:30
B     Figure In A Clearing
                                            Cello – David Gibson;   Engineer – Richard Lainhart    19:12

Companies, etc.
    Phonographic Copyright (p) – Lovely Music, Ltd.
    Copyright (c) – Lovely Music, Ltd.
    Published By – Fine Stuff Music Publishers
    Recorded At – Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College
    Recorded At – Electronic Music Studios, State University Of New York

Credits
    Design [Jacket Design] – Ariel Peeri
    Electronics, Composed By – David Behrman

Notes
Track A recorded at the Recording Studio, Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College (Oakland, California), Sept. 18, 1977; Track B recorded at the Electronic Music Studio, State University of New York at Albany, June 9, 1977.
Labels: ? 1978 Lovely Music, Ltd.
Cover: © ? 1977 Lovely Music, Ltd.

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Album Review: Review by "Blue" Gene Tyranny, All Music Guide:
A welcome original subtle, sustained, and serene vinyl recording. The beautiful and meditative "On the Other Ocean," a new music classic, is Behrman's first interactive piece in which the musicians played acoustic instruments that triggered the production of harmonies from computer-driven synthesizers, and the musicians were in turn influenced in their spontaneous improvising by what the computer did. This is the basic setup for interactive computer music. The computer in this case was a microcomputer called the KIM-1, a precursor to the Apple II, and one of the first personal computers available. Flutist Maggi Payne and bassoonist Arthur Stidfole improvised around six pitches chosen by Behrman, and when they played one of the six notes activating the pitch-sensing circuits, Behrman's homemade synthesizers would produce harmonic responses. This music is of a holy place, an oasis outside the rush of linear time. "Figure in a Clearing," for computer-controlled synthesizer and improvising musician on cello, was the composer's first piece to employ a computer to make music. The software program varied the time intervals -- "modeled on the motion of a satellite in falling elliptical orbit around a planet" according to Behrman -- between chord changes; the resulting slow deflection and pitch- and/or rhythm-shifting modulation seem to create the type of sound elasticity of interest to Behrman, which he has continued to refine in his works. The cellist was given six pitches with which to spontaneously improvise, and was requested that he not speed up when the computer-controlled rhythm did, maintaining his own personality. The timbre of the synthesizer waveforms and cello are perfectly complementary.

Biography of David Behrman biography by "Blue" Gene Tyranny, All Music Guide:
David Behrman holds degrees from Harvard and Columbia. Produced Music of Our Time series for Columbia Records in 1960s. Co-founder Sonic Arts Union. Tours with Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1970s and 1990s. Co-director Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College (1975-80). Also taught at Ohio State Univ. and CAL Arts, designed children's computer games at Children's Television Workshop.

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