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New Music For Electronic And Recorded Media: Women In Electronic Music-1977
Johanna M. Beyer, Annea Lockwood, Pauline Oliveros
New Music For Electronic And Recorded Media: Women In Electronic Music-1977
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Special Interest, Pop, Classical
 
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The music on this album exhibits an exciting, wide-open, freewheeling approach to the medium of electronic music which has come to be typical of this genre in the late 1970s. No longer are composers obsessively concerned w...  more »

     
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All Artists: Johanna M. Beyer, Annea Lockwood, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, Megan Roberts, Ruth Anderson, Laurie Anderson, Electric Weasel Ensemble
Title: New Music For Electronic And Recorded Media: Women In Electronic Music-1977
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: New World Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 11/1/2006
Album Type: Original recording remastered
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Special Interest, Pop, Classical
Styles: Experimental Music, Vocal Pop, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Instruments, Electronic
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 093228065326

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The music on this album exhibits an exciting, wide-open, freewheeling approach to the medium of electronic music which has come to be typical of this genre in the late 1970s. No longer are composers obsessively concerned with the agonizing, expressionistic, and purely "electronic" (synthesized) sound formulas which marked much of this music composed between the mid Fifties and the late Sixties. Instead, today we have composers willing to mix media and sonic materials in thoroughly inventive ways to achieve ends which are new-sounding, and often more engaging, than that of the "academic" avant-garde. This is the outgrowth of a fundamental change in concerns which has been evolving not only among members are some of themost fecund and inspired. These new wources of inspiratin cerainly werer not as widely shared fifteen years agao. Several composers represented here are deeply concerned with Eastern musics and their subsequent metamorphoses into such popular forms as rock and roll. Still others bring to bear a sense of wit and satire, rarely a prominent feature of avant-garde music in the early 1960s. This first anthology of women's electronic music demonstrates great refinement and skill at work in a variety of different styles, several of which are unfamiliar or new even to those who follow contemporary music. The fact that these pieces are more listenable than that of the Sixties avant-garde does not point to a musical regression as some critics have overeagerly assumed when discussing modern works using, say, consonant harmonic structures. -Charles Amirkhanian, August 1977 (This recording was orginally issued as CRI CD 728)
 

CD Reviews

For fans of Oliveros, Spiegel or both
M. Derby | Portland, OR USA | 05/05/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you enjoy Pauline Oliveros' "Bye Bye Butterfly", you will also appreciate her CD called Electronic Works. There's some redundancy, because BBB appears on both discs. Although that composition is (in my opinion) the finest of its kind, the other collection is still worth seeking, as it includes two other lengthy pieces from the mid-'60s. Along with Alien Bog/Beautiful Soop, these are essential documents of Oliveros' early period.



The nature of these experiments may surprise you, however, if you have heard only Oliveros' post-Deep Listening works, i.e. based primarily on accordion and a delay system. Similar in concept to Terry Riley's use of soprano sax in solo (or small ensemble) arrangements. But not the same aesthetic or attitude. Sorry to be vague; in order to understand, you really must hear them.



If you're already a fan of Laurie Spiegel, Appalachian Grove will arrive as something akin to a once-lost artifact: relative to other, more-widely-available recordings. I recommend the anthology The Virtuoso in the Computer Age-III, which includes Spiegel's Cavis Muris, in five movements totalling approximately 22 minutes. That collection also features Joan La Barbara, Larry Austin and Stephen Travis Pope."
First Groundbreaking Then a Classic!!!
Jokie X Wilson | San Francisco, California United States | 12/01/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I grew up with this when it was an LP and my copy is so worn from repeated plays that I doubt I'll get a dime for it at the used record store. It merits being heard again and again as it is so interesting and unusual as a collection of electronic music. I am so glad it is on CD and digitally remastered. The sound is excellent! If you listen with headphones, there is minor tape hiss, but you only hear it during the quiet parts and it doesn't come across when you listen with regular speakers.



I got this originally because I was a Laurie Anderson fan. This is the only available recording of her studio versions of "New York Social Life" and "Time to Go." But all of the music is excellent. One of my favorites is "Appalachian Grove 1 (1974)" by Laurie Spiegel, an intense and melodic piece. None of the pieces sound particularly mechanical. It is both entertaining and good to chill or meditate to. It is intelligent and relaxing all at once. There is something spiritually uplifting about it as well. Have fun!"