Morton Subotnick (Avant Garde Project 6, 20th century classical)

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• Added:
  03/31/2006
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  2009-07-27 05:08:46
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  <pre class="nfo">The Avant Garde Project is an effort to make available some of my <br /> favorite pieces of experimental music from the late 20th century. <br /> The extremist intellectual climate of that time gave birth to some of <br /> the wildest and most challenging sound combinations that human artistry <br /> has ever conceived. The pieces selected for this project were released <br /> on LP but have never been released on CD, and so they are effectively <br /> inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. Using an <br /> analog rig and pre-amplification that is near state-of-the-art, I am <br /> able to extract the sound from the grooves with almost none of the <br /> surface noise and tracking distortion normally associated with LPs. <br /> <br /> I am hoping you will find this material as fascinating and beautiful as <br /> I do. My hard disk is small, and so I am seriously limited as to how <br /> many torrents I can host at one time. If you find any value in your <br /> downloads, I ask you please to seed them yourself for as long as <br /> possible, so they will continue to be available to other people. Some <br /> or all of the first five AGP torrents are still being seeded through <br /> the generosity of other downloaders, so check them out if you haven't <br /> already. A mininova.org search for &quot;avant garde project&quot; will direct <br /> you to them.<br /> <br /> ==========================<br /> <br /> The sixth AGP torrent contains Morton Subotnick's series &quot;The Double <br /> Life of Amphibians&quot;. This series includes four of the fourteen works <br /> that Subotnick wrote for &quot;ghost&quot; electronics in the late 1970s and early<br /> 1980s. The &quot;ghost&quot; electronics make no sound on their own, but alter <br /> the amplitude, frequency, and location of any sounds produced as the <br /> electronic score is playing. In his works for this technology, <br /> Subotnick explored the effects of these manipulations on a variety of <br /> instrumental combinations, from single instruments to chamber ensembles. <br /> The rather simple electronic manipulations in the &quot;ghost&quot; electronics <br /> nevertheless produce an interesting range of timbres, depending on the <br /> tone color of the instruments being manipulated. <br /> <br /> While Subotnick is known chiefly as a composer for electronics, his <br /> instrumental writing in these works is interesting and innovative even <br /> in those passages where the electronic manipulation is minimal. &quot;The <br /> Double Life of Amphibians&quot; is in three parts, the first part consisting <br /> of two compositions. A description of the structure of the series is <br /> included in a text file with the torrent. <br /> <br /> Equipment used for A/D conversion: Lyra Helikon phono cartridge, Linn <br /> LP12/Lingo turntable, Linn Ittok tonearm, Audioquest LeoPard tonearm <br /> cable, PS Audio PS2 preamplifier, Kimber PBJ interconnect, M-Audio <br /> Audiophile USB A/D converter. <br /> <br /> 01 - Axolotl (cello and &quot;ghost&quot; electronics) &nbsp;[17:19]<br /> 02 - Ascent Into Air (ten instruments and &quot;ghost&quot; electronics) &nbsp;[24:04]<br /> 03 - The Last Dream of the Beast (soprano, two celli, electronics, and &quot;ghost&quot; electronics) &nbsp;[14:46]<br /> 04 - A Fluttering of Wings (string quartet and &quot;ghost&quot; electronics) &nbsp;[19:13]<br /> <br /> NOTE: To the best of my knowledge, these recordings are currently out <br /> of print. If you know otherwise, please let me know ASAP, as I do not <br /> wish to deprive any artists of their much-deserved royalties (however <br /> paltry).</pre>
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Files

File	Size
Double Life of Amphibians.txt	16.4 KB
Morton Subotnick (AGP6).txt	3.1 KB
Subotnick01.flac	66 MB
Subotnick02.flac	99 MB
Subotnick03.flac	60 MB
Subotnick04.flac	85 MB

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