JIM FASSETT:50'S ELECTRONIC-MUSIQUE CONCRETE LP RARE

	£		43
	$		57

Strange to your ears LP

• Original 1st pressing
• Label              :Columbia Masterworks / Usa
• Condition        :vg /vg (cover/vinyl)

Have a look at my other auctions for Fassett's "Symphony of the birds". Excellent and rare 1953 lp exploring the weird and wacky side of early electronic tape manipulations/musique concrete, presenting an array of sped-up, slowed-down, reversed, cut-up, and montaged found sounds. Fassett (of Symphony Of The Birds fame) narrates this demonstration of the then-astounding capabilities of the newly invented magnetic tape recorder, using a whimsical approach to introduce listeners to the territory pioneered by more serious academic composers like Pierre Henry, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Otto Luening, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Fassett shows how familiar sounds can be made to oddly sound like totally different ones, how multiple sounds from disparate locations can be collaged together to create utterly alien soundscapes, and how entire universes of sound can be derived from the most unlikely sources, with several truly bizarre moments (perhaps the most hilarious being when he attempts to pronounce his name backwards in order to hear what it sounds like when played in reverse. But beneath the novelty surface of this recording, Fassett is actually making a revolutionary statement about how we hear, joining with avant garde contemporaries like John Cage in radically calling for a new appreciation of sound as music and music as sound (the liner notes by High Fidelity Magazine editor John M. Conly name-drop Edgard Varese, Pierre Boulez, and Pierre Schaeffer). This album's content was originally a radio documentary that Fassett produced with engineer Mortimer Goldberg. It is highly recommended as a fascinating period document, as a trove of sound effects, and as a beautiful specimen of outsider musique concrete.

Fassett was the director of CBS Radio, a radio show host, music critic, audiophile, and early magnetic tape experimentalist who in the 1950s released several novelty musique concrete recordings. Other references: Jean-Jacques Perrey, Bruce Haack, Raymond Scott, Tod Dockstader, Francois Bayle, Luc Ferrari...(kind courtesy of keymap)

Vinyl and cover in vg condition, quite decent if you consider the fact that it's a +50 year LP!! Impossible to find!! Please notice that the picture is not the actual picture of the LP(but the actual LP is not much different from what you see!). Might appeal to fans of Pierre Henry, musique concrete, Broken Music, Pierre Schaeffer, Detoni, Ragnar Grippe, Arne Nordheim, Andre Almuro, Alvin Lucier, Alvin Curran, Eimert, Riedl, Parmegiani, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Richard Maxfield, Hermann Nitsch, Henri Chopin, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Yoshi Wada, Tod Dockstader, Luc Ferrari, Lejeune, Christian Clozier, Logothetis, Jani Christou,Toniutti, Nurse with wound, Asmus Tietchens, Zoviet France, Hafler Trio, John Duncan, Leif Ellgrenn, Hausswolff, Merzbow, Organum, AMM, Harry Bertoia, Sound Sculpture, Z'ev, Lasry-Baschet, Paul Panhuysen, Ellen Fullman, Bill Fontana, Annea Lockwood, Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidsieck, Sten Hanson, Text sound compositions, harry Partch, John Cage, David Tudor and similar!

Shipping: Combined shipping=BIG discounts. Shiping for 1st LP is 5 gbp airmail in Europe / 7 gbp for the rest of the world! Each additional LP add 1 gbp up to 6 LPs for Europe(2 kgs). Each additional LP for the rest of the world, please add 1 gbp for first 2 additional, 2 gbp for the 4th LP and then 1 gbp for each additional LP. For registered rates, please ask.

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