Avant Garde Project torrent 123 is up and running (a day early)

[loudav]

AGP123 continues our series of electronic compositions from the USA with a collection from some of the early leaders of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, which was established in 1959 and was one of the earliest centers for electronic music in the USA. Four of these tracks come from a Columbia LP released in 1964 and devoted to music from the center, and the rest are collected from various other LPs.

I've never been a huge fan of the nasal, ping-poing timbres that characterize so much of the output from the center, but the relatively limited tonal range does bring out the rhythmic and structural elements in these works. The three electronic studies by Mario Davidovsky are unjustly neglected works in contrast to his Synchronisms, which I suspect are so popular in part because they provide show pieces for the musicians who are paired with electronic sounds, while the electronic studies are purely electronic. Otto Luening's Gargoyles for violin and tape also demonstrates the interesting structures that can be produced with a limited range of electronic tones.

Check it out at:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4463686

Enjoy!

[The Six]

How about for next week, you say "AGP torrent 124 has dropped, peeps. Check it."

I think that'll get a few more views.

[loudav]

Not, "Put that thang down, AGP124 be fine as a super model"?

[The Six]

That's for 125.

[loudav]

If you knew the content of AGP125, you wouldn't suggest that.

[Catison]

Thanks for this.  I've been trying to find this Babbitt piece for a long time.