HIGHLIGHTS OF VORTEX Henry Jacobs EX FOLKWAYS Avant Garde LP w/notes/insert
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Up for auction is a near mint Folkways experimental electronic release. This is one of the first avante gaurde electronic records ever released. Few were pressed to vinyl and few were sold. This record apears to have been played once by me and once by whomever purchased it first. Sleeve, record and insert are in like new condition. This is a "must have" for any extensive electronic music collection. Few of these exist. Many of the musicians went on to fame elsewhere in music and jazz etc.This record functions as the 1959 avant-garde score for Vortex, a music/film production shown in the Morrison Planetarium in San Francisco. One of the first multimedia events of its kind, this performance includes tracks that were constructed for playback on a 38 speaker system by several different musicians/engineers. According to the Center of Visual Music, the performance created a "type of immersion environment [that] had never been created before".Artists include Henry Jacobs, Gordon Longfellow, David L. Talcott, and William Loughborough. This electronic music is primarily in the style of Musique Concrete – a genre that features a wide array of sounds recorded to tape and then arranged in a specific order – but more traditional instruments are heard on this recording as well.
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