USSACHEVSKY+LUENING 1st ELECTRONIC LP 1952 PSYCH-PROG

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VLADIMIR USSACHEVSKY / OTTO LUENING

Tape Music An Historic Concert LP

• Limited Edition
• Label              :Desto 6466 / Usa
• Condition        :vg/g(cover/record)

A historic recording-documentation of the 1st EVER tape-electronic music concert back from 1952 at the Museum of Modern Art-New York October 28,1952. Have a look here for an historical overview of electronic music : http://www.indiana.edu/~emusic/elechist.htm .
Included are the pieces "Sonic Contours", "Low Speed", "Fantasy in space", "Incantation", Invention in twelve notes", "Moonflight", "Lyric scene", "Legend". Weird cut-ups, electronic distortion and other pioneer techniques were introduced from the 2 composers on this concert, which altered for ever the world of electronic music and brought it to what we know today!! This is the original pressing from the 60's on Desto Records, Usa. Sounds from outer space, just impossible to imagine that this is a 1952 recording, sounds still very fresh and new!! Get this NOW!!

Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990) wrote works for a variety of media, but he is perhaps best known for his work in choral and electronic music. His choral works draw primarily from the Russian liturgical music Ussachevsky experienced as a child. By contrast, Ussachevsky's electronic music incoporates a wide range of sounds taken from both acoustic and electronic sources. His skill with manipulating existing material, especially from recorded instruments, is evident in a number of works including A Piece for Tape Recorder (1956) and Of Wood and Brass (1964-1965).

The son of a Mongolian prince, Ussachevsky was born in Hailar, Manchuria near the Siberian border. He lived in a very musical environment: his mother was a pianist and all of his four siblings showed musical talent. Along with his musical life at home and in church, Ussachevsky played in local dance bands and accompanied screenings of silent films. In 1930 Ussachevsky and part of his family fled the area due to unrest and the threat of Japanese invasion; they emigrated to the United States and settled in southern California. There he received formal musical training at Pasadena Junior College and Pomona College in Los Angeles, and from 1935 to 1939 at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. There he studied with Bernard Rogers, Howard Hanson, and Burrill Phillips.

During World War II Ussachevsky worked for the Office of Strategic Services (now Secret Service) and US State Department. In 1947 he joined the faculty of Columbia University, where he would teach until his retirement in 1980. There he and Otto Luening were among the first composers in the US to experiment in the electronic medium; in 1959 they co-founded with Milton Babbitt and Roger Sessions what would become known as the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, one of the most important studios of electronic music in the world. Ussachevsky served as chairman of the center for 20 years; his students included Charles Dodge, Robert Moog, Alice Shields, Harvey Sollberger, and Charles Wuorinen.

In addition to his work at Columbia, Ussachevsky taught and was composer-in-residence at the University of Utah. He served as president of the American Composers Alliance between 1968 and 1970 and was an advisory member of the CRI label, where many of his works have been recorded. His music may also be found on the Capstone, d'Note, Desto, Finnadar and New World labels.

Ussachevsky & Luening were THE first composers that explored the world of electronic music, and it's pretty sure they influenced composers like John Cage, Henry Jacobs, Lejaren Hiller and of course Henk Badings, David Tudor, Tom Dissevelt, Tod Dockstader, Herbert Eimert, Gottfried Michael Koenig, also the musique concrete school of Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer. It seems that although today the work of Ussachevsky & Luening is pretty uknown, they were appreciated and influenced vastly a big number mainly of american composers, such as Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Robert Ashley, Udo Kasemets, Roger Reynolds, Charles Amirkhanian and of course Jon Appleton, David Behrman, Ruth Anderson, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Larry Austin, while also he could have influenced Jerry Hunt, Bulent Arel, Daria Semengen, Glenn Branca, Bruce Haack, Phil Niblock and why not Joseph Celli, Joel Chadabe, Charlemagne Palestine, Noah Creshevsky, Charles Dodge, David Cope and Dub Taylor. 

Cover lies in just vg condition(ex-library copy with stickers), while the vinyl lies in just good condition(the lowest possible grade for vinyls), with a lot of marks and plays with some crackle throughout the biggest part.  

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