Ruth White:..Tarot Cards 60s electronic psych Limelight

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Ruth White: 7 Trumps from the Tarot Cards (196? for electronic sound); Pinions (1968 for electronic sound)



label & cat. no.:
Limelight LS-86058 pressed in:
USA date:
196? format:
LP condition:
Vinyl: ex (beautiful, looks barely played with just a couple faint swashes)
Cover: vg+ (light wear) description:
Rare lp with 2 great early electronic works created in White's private studio using a Moog Synthesizer, variable speed tape recorders, oscillators, modulators, electronic organ, electronic clavichord, piano, harpsichord, and reverberation devices. Pinions was made for a dance piece by choreographer Eugene Loring. In the notes, White offers her strange psychedelic vision of the inevitable electronically enhanced future these pieces are meant to invoke: "We will see new sights and old treasures as if they actually existed in real dimension via holography. We will hear music that travels and sound illusions that shrink and expand space. Rooms will be covered with skins of liquid crystals and electrical circuits. Electric couches will shock and move, and ceilings will rotate. We may be evolving toward art or sensations to be absorbed in a comatose state..." Issued by the Limelight electronic-psych-jazz label known for their releases of Pierre Henry, Dick Raaijmakers, Tom Dissevelt, Electrosoniks, Mecki Mark Men, Fifty Foot Hose, Bengt Hambraeus, Henk Badings, Beaver & Krause, Roland Kirk, Paul Bley, Electronic Concept Orchestra, Melvin Jackson, etc.

artist info from album notes:
White was an American early electronic composer with her own private studio who released several experimental and pop electronic records in the 1960s and also made many children's educational recordings; she was among the first women to experiment with electronic composition, along with Pauline Oliveros, Bebe Baron, Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, and Pril Smiley. Should be of interest to fans of Morton Subotnick, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Douglas Leedy, Mort Garson, Bruce Haack, Michel Philippot, Philippe Arthuys, Francois Bernard Mache, Francois Bayle, Bernard Parmegiani, Tod Dockstader, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and Otto Luening. Check out my other items for more avant garde/experimental, early electronic/electroacoustic, minimalism, sound effects/field recordings, 20th century classical, library music, 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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