RUTH ANDERSON / ROGER MEYERS LP 1982 avant experimental electronic lockwood

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Ruth Andreson “I Come Out Of Your Sleep” / Roger Meyers “After ‘the Pond’ / Silver Screen” LP issued by Opus One (Number 63) in the US, 1982. ****** Rec:m- Cov:ex ****** US electro-acoustic music composer Ruth Anderson, born 1928, trained as a flutist in the 1950s, before turning to electronic music during the 1960s at Vladimir Ussachevsky’s Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. She founded the electronic music studio at Hunter College, NYC, in 1968, while also teaching composition there. Regrettably so, the track on this LP is one of the few ever published by Anderson. Composed 1979, “I Come Out Of Your Sleep” is based on vowel sounds only, taken from the Louise Bogan poem Little Lobelia’s Song. Each vowel is slowed down, elongated and electronically processed on 4 simultaneous tracks. The effect is that of a breath-mantra, as it seems to settle your own breath while you listen. Its palpable, oneiric quality would suit Surrealists’ lucid dreaming experiments or a Maya Deren film soundtrack. Anderson’s experience as a flutist is obvious from the impervious control of breath. Cover art is a photogram by Ruth Anderson’s partner Annea Lockwood. US composer and computer programmer Roger Meyers took part to the completion of the Pantograph computer music interface in 1976 with Joel Chadabe, George Kindler and Richard Lainhart. In 1977, in cooperation with Chadabe, Meyers conceived the first programmable sequencer, known as the Play Program. The pair later collaborated on other projects, like “Settings for Spirituals”, 1977, a Chadabe composition for which Meyers assisted with computer programming. Written 1979, Meyers’ track “After The Pond” (after Charles Ives) is an exquisite sonic mobile where dream-like, electronic sounds chime in a rarefied  atmosphere. Coming from a computer-monitored Synclavier, the sounds are completely in line with “I Come Out Of Your Sleep” and will maintain the listener in a semi-lucid dreaming state. “Silver Screen”, created 1975, doesn’t even use a keyboard, as it is entirely computer-based. ****** Liner notes in English. ****** Please wait to receive my invoice before sending the payment after the auction ends. Attention! Real postage costs are not USD 4 as all the items are located in Doha, Qatar (which has a very safe and professional post system). Postage costs registered for the first LP is USD 22,50 for the whole world. ****** Thank you for your kind attention and good luck with your bids.