IRIDA 0032 JERRY HUNT, LEGENDARY TEXAS COMPOSER/PERFORMER

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IRIDA 0032 JERRY HUNT, LEGENDARY TEXAS COMPOSER/PERFORMER

Ultra rare.  Issued privately with the backing of patrons in 1979.  Jacket signed by Jerry Hunt.  Jacket cover: one-of-a-kind art work by Salle Werner-Vaughn (also signed by the artist).  Vinyl is excellent+ - no scratches nor mars.  The jacket is perfect and the original art work on the cover is at least worth the listing price.


This LP recently sold on eBay for $247 (2010) and a year earlier for $146 (2009) so this starting price is a bargain especially considering how much it’s appreciated in value in a year and how much more it can be expected to appreciate in the near term.  Do a Google search on “IRIDA 0032 JERRY HUNT” and go down 8 or 9 URLs on the first page to corroborate the claim.

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From the studios of composer and electronic arts pioneer, Ron Pellegrino - http://www.ronpellegrinoselectronicartsproductions.org/.

Jerry gave this LP to me in 1979 when he appeared as the first composer/performer on THE LEADING EDGE MUSIC SERIES (LEMS) at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.  With the assistance of local, state and federal funding I founded the LEMS as a facet of an experimental music composition program I got up and running at Texas Tech after I’d been there on the music faculty for a year.  Partly the point of the LEMS was to put Lubbock on the new experimental music map by importing artists from all over the USA and showcasing them in workshops, on stage in performances and on local TV and radio stations.  The artists were invited principally from the coasts but actually from wherever they were to be found.  In fact, there was no better artist than Dallas, Texas composer Jerry Hunt to kick-start the LEMS.  The students loved him despite how esoteric Jerry’s work seems to be to the uninitiated.  Many in the rest of the art/music community got to scratch their heads (tried and true method for getting the brain working more creatively).

In a nutshell, Jerry was a practicing shaman, a music monk with a unique and entrancing approach to performing his own work.  We were participants in a number of New Music America Festivals in major cities around the USA in the late 70s/early 80s and despite the presence at those festivals of the “big” names from the two coasts I always loved Jerry’s work the most.  Simply put, Jerry’s work was unique, authentic and moving on a transcendental level, and the reason he’s considered legendary is that anyone who has witnessed one of his performances never forgets the experience and seems driven to tell others about it.

I met Jerry in the early 1970s through the National Centers For Experiments In Television.  Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation there were three centers in the USA -  San Francisco, Dallas and Boston.  Although some of my early research into music visualization was done in San Francisco, I met Jerry in Dallas in connection with some of his visual music performances (one facet of our common ground) done in a NCET concert at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.  From the first time I shook his hand I was a Jerry Hunt fan.

By recycling this LP I expect that it will find its way to an appropriate new home.  Jerry Hunt is what those in the know would call a composer’s composer, but I never witnessed a performance of his that was not completely appreciated by any audience who found their way to an experimental music concert.  He left us at age 50, so how many venues (audiences) could there have been for his sort of esoteric work?  That’s another reason why he’s a legend.  Those who were lucky enough to actually experience his work just passed it along second hand to those who wish they had.
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Shipped Media Mail in the lower 48 of the USA for $4.  Beyond those borders it will be shipped via FedEx for the actual cost determined at shipping time and charged to the buyer’s FedEx account (anyone with a credit card can get a FedEx account over the telephone).