DAVID TUDOR Rainforest Edition Block Electronic Music Experimental Avant Garde M
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DAVID TUDOR: “Rainforest IV”
LABEL: Edition Block Berlin
Label Number: GR-EB 1
VERY RARE Original 1st Private Gallery Press edition that came out in limited numbers way back in 1980!!! This is a killer electronic music masterpiece!!! - TOP ARCHIVAL copy!!!!
GRADING:
LP Record: Near Mint
Gatefold Jacket: Excellent ~ Near Mint
Some words on this issue: TUDOR, DAVID: “Rainforest IV” (Edition Block Berlin – GR-EB-1) Recorded in 1973 and released as a gallery edition in 1980, “Rainforest IV” was an electroaccoustic environment conceived by David Tudor and realized by the Group Composers Inside Electronics (John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein, Ralph Jones, Martin Kalve, David Tudor and Bill Viola). Each composer has designed and constructed a set of sculptures which function as instrumental loudspeakers under his control, and each independently produces sound material to display his sculptures' resonant characteristics. The appreciation of the “rainforest IV” depends upon individual exploration and the audience is invited to move freely amongst the sculptures. These instruments/ sculptures are made having large physical proportions and acoustic presence in space, producing an environment that is both visual and acoustic. And also tactile. David Tudor was found commenting on his creation: “In 1973 I made "Rainforest IV" where the objects that the sounds are sent through are very large so that they have their own presence in space. I mean, they actually sound locally in the space where they are hanging as well as being supplemented by a loudspeaker system. The idea is that if you send sound through materials, the resonant nodes of the materials are released and those can be picked up by contact microphones or phono cartridges and those have a different kind of sound than the object does when you listen to it very close where it's hanging. It becomes like a reflection and it makes, I thought, quite a harmonious and beautiful atmosphere, because wherever you move in the room, you have reminiscences of something you have heard at some other point in the space. It's (can be) a large group piece actually, any number of people can participate in it. It's important that each person makes their own sculpture, decides how to program it, and performs it themselves. Very little instruction is necessary for the piece. I've found it to be almost self-teaching because you discover how to program the devices by seeing what they like to accept. Its been a very rewarding type of activity for me. It's been done by as large a group as 14 people. So that was how our Rainforest was done.” Amazing piece of electronic music that actually sounds like you are being sucked up into the green panoply of a Borneo rainforest after a heavy rainfall. Original press of this fantastic electro-acoustic mind bender.
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