Barton McLean:Dimensions II avant electronic Synthi 100

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Barton McLean: Dimensions II (1974 for piano and tape); Genesis (1973 for Synthi 100 synthesizer); The Scorcerer Revisited (1975 for synthesizers)


label & cat. no.:
Orion ORS 75192 pressed in:
USA date:
197? format:
LP condition:
Vinyl: vg+ (minor scuffs)
Cover: vg+ (light wear, top seam has 1" split) description:
Brilliant and hard to find mid-70s experimental electronic lp. These works were realized at the Electronic Music Center of Indiana University at South Bend. Dimensions II's tape portion is made entirely out of processed piano sounds, with the piano part played by Robert Hamilton. Genesis was realized on the mythic EMS Synthi 100 - at the time the most advanced computer synth in the USA according to the notes (the Synthi 100 was an early polyphonic synth behemoth of which only 30 were ever constructed, used by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop for sound effects in Doctor Who and The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy as well as by Stockhausen, Goethals, Artemiev, Piero Umiliani, and Jack Dangers/Meat Beat Manifesto).

artist info from album notes:
Barton McLean was a student of Henry Cowell, Thomas Beversdorf, Bernhard Heiden, Michael Babcock, and Bruce Hemingway; with his wife Priscilla they performed live electronic music as The McLean Mix. This lp should be of interest to fans of Morton Subotnick, Donald Buchla, Robert Moog, Douglas Leedy, Jon Appleton, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Milton Babbitt, Terry Riley, Jean-Claude Risset, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Bernard Parmegiani, Pierre Henry, Francois Bayle, Tod Dockstader, and Ilhan Mimaroglu. Check out my other items for more avant garde/experimental, early electronic/electroacoustic, psych, minimalism, 20th century classical, microtonal, sound effects/field recordings, and artist records. US Shipping - Media Mail is $5.00 for 1-2 single 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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