Electronomusic obscure 1968 electronic musique concrete John Pfeiffer RCA avant

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John Pfeiffer: Electronomusic-- Warm-Up, Canon and Peace (For Inharmonic Side-Band); Reflection of a String (For Contraformer); Drops (For Programmer and Sines); Moments (Events for Parametric Blocks); Take Off (For Metric Transperformer); Forests (Modes for Alphormer and Set); Pavone (A Duotonic Transform); Orders (For Sequential Sines); After Hours (For Ordered Simpliformer) label & cat. no.:
RCA VICS-1371 pressed in:
USA date:
1968 format:
LP condition:
Vinyl: vg+ (few light unfeelable scuffs)
Cover: nm- (in shrink, minor corner wear) description:
Great and hard to find lp with little-known experimental electronic works created by this veteran RCA producer in his own private studio. These studies in sound patterns, undated but probably all from the 60s, are endearingly primitive and show the influence of the Columbia-Princeton set (Vladimir Ussachevsky, Otto Luening, Ilhan Mimaroglu, etc.). Pfeiffer claims he is trying to infuse his work with a more popular aesthetic as a reaction against "radical avant-gardism," and amidst his abstract soundscapes, recurring melodies and repetition (sometimes bordering on minimalism) can be heard. The highlight is the great After Hours, a musique concrete collage of sounds from "the modern business office"; telephones and filing cabinets become "percussion instruments of a mammoth orchestra. We imagine that they could dispose themselves in rigorous rhythm..." Pfeiffer incorporates microtonal scales but often returns to the traditional diatonic to invoke a sense of tranquility and "musical security." His stated goal is to use "musically organized sound built from electronic technology" to "order the sensory being to re-form time, space, and their occupants."

artist info from album notes etc.:
Pfeiffer was a jazz pianist, composer, and audio engineer who helped pioneer stereo, quadrophonic, and digital recording techniques; he was known primarily for producing many of RCA's greatest classical recordings during the Living Stereo era, working in the studio with artists like Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Rubinstein, Van Cliburn, Wanda Landowska, Leontyne Price, Arturo Toscanini, Fritz Reiner, Leopold Stokowski, Eugene Ormandy, and Charles Munch. • Will be of interest to fans of Raymond Scott, Bruce Haack, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Francois Bayle, Luc Ferrari, Tod Dockstader, Autechre, Pauline Oliveros, Milton Babbitt, Steve Reich, Herbert Eimert, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Bernard Parmegiani, Oskar Sala, and Cecil Leuter. Check out my other items for more avant garde/experimental, early electronic/synth/electroacoustic, sound art, audiophile, 20th century classical, field recordings/sound effects, and jazz/improv vintage 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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