Ilhan Mimaroglu:Face The Windmills 60s electronic SEALD

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Ilhan Mimaroglu: Face The Windmills, Turn Left-- Eight Preludes for Magnetic Tape (1966-73); Agony (1965); Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe (1964); Intermezzo (1964); Bowery Bum (1964)

Finnadar SR 9012 USA 1976 LP Vinyl: (sealed)
Cover: ex- (sealed; upper right corner is dented; 1.5" split at center of bottom seam, where there is an opening in the shrink; sticker remnants on shrink) An excellent release on Mimaroglu's own label in impossible-to-find still-sealed condition, containing early electronic/musique concrete composed by this pioneer at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. The Preludes are constructed from the processed sounds of frequency generators, electric, string, and woodwind instruments, and, in the case of No.16, the voice of Janis Siegel of The Manhattan Transfer; several of the Preludes appearing here remain unreleased elsewhere. The Arshile Gorky-inspired Agony uses processed electronic sounds sourced from various oscillators, generators, and filters, and an array of stereo effects. Mimaroglu has cited Ornette Coleman, Charles Ives, and Franz Liszt as influences for his 3 earlier works Le Tombeau (a concrete "melodrama" that derives all of its sounds from a recording of a Stephane Mallarme poem read by Erdem Buri), Intermezzo (made using only pure electronic tones, ring modulation, and mixing techniques), and the Jean Debuffet-inspired Bowery Bum (sourced entirely from rubber bands amplified by special microphones).

Mimaroglu studied under Vladimir Ussachevsky and Edgard Varese, composed at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (alongside Otto Luening, Mario Davidovsky, Bulent Arel, Milton Babbitt, Wendy Carlos, etc.) and the INA-GRM musique concrete studios (of Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Francois Bayle, Bernard Parmegiani, Luc Ferrari, Michel Chion, Jean-Claude Risset, Francois Bernard Mache, Ivo Malec, Michel Redolfi, etc.), worked with Jean Dubuffet, ran the Finnadar avant garde record label where he produced essential recordings of Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Daria Semegen, Frederic Rzewski, and Henry Cowell, and worked for Atlantic producing jazz albums by Freddie Hubbard, John Coltrane, and Charles Mingus. Other references: Tod Dockstader, Herbert Eimert, Rune Lindblad, Dick Raaijmakers, Ragnar Grippe, Jon Appleton, Jean Michel Jarre, and Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen... Check out my other auctions this week for more Mimaroglu, avant garde, experimental, early electronic, electroacoustic, synthesizer, 20th century classical, free jazz, space-age pop, modern poetry, psych, sound sculpture, and sound effects records. Shipping - US shipping is 4.20 for 1-2 single records by Media Mail, then 0.50 for each additional (Priority Mail, other expedited shipping options, and insurance are all available on request). International shipping for 1 12" lp to Western Europe/UK/Scandinavia is 8.00 surface or 13.00 air; to Japan/Taiwan/Australia is 8.00 surface or 14.50 air; to Canada by air is 7.00; other international destinations vary. 7" and 10" records will cost less; heavy box sets will cost more. Combine multiple items to save on shipping. Note: I can now offer international buyers the super-cheap M-Bag bulk mail rate for orders of 7 or more lps; to most destinations this starts at 21.50 for surface mail or 33.50 for air for up to 17 lps, a huge per-record savings over standard rates for smaller parcels! Feel free to email with any shipping questions. Payment - I prefer Paypal (which allows for fastest possible shipment) and also accept cash, money order (from US financial institutions only, including BidPay, US Postal, certified US bank check, etc., international bidders please take note!), and Western Union money transfer. If you are paying by Paypal and have won multiple items, please use a single Paypal payment. I will send an invoice email to all winners shortly after my auctions close, and another email after payment has been received to confirm item shipment. Packing - I pack professionally using new record mailers exclusively from Cameron Packaging (which I have determined are the best and most protective). For used lps, I remove the lp and inserts from the jacket, cover it in a layer of bubble wrap, and then reinforce it with a cardboard insert. All records are shipped with poly plastic sleeves. All packages are completely sealed with strong packing tape covering all openings. If you'd like your package done any differently, just let me know. Feel free to email me if you have any questions (need more info, want more pictures, etc.); you can use the 'ask seller a question' link above. My condition rating scale is -G+/-VG+/-EX+/-NM/M (only sealed records are M). Satisfaction guaranteed; if you have any problems with your order please contact me directly. Check out Ebay[track], my free realtime ebay auction tracker (currently in beta), which can refresh multiple auction statuses every second, alert you when bids are placed and when auctions end, let you place bids, and more. It's a useful tool for bidders, snipers, sellers, watchers... This item description is (c)opyright 2006 keymap records; please contact keymap records for permission before reproducing any text.