My Podcast: The Holmes Archive of Electronic Music
My blog for the Bob Moog Foundation.
These special edition podcasts are produced as a companion to my book, Electronic and Experimental Music, published by Routledge. Each episode corresponds to a chapter in the text and an associated list of recommended works, also called Listen in the text. They provide listening examples of vintage electronic works featured in the text.
The works themselves can be enjoyed without the book and I hope that they stand as a chronological survey of important works in the history of electronic music. Be sure to tune-in to other episodes of the podcast where we explore a wide range of electronic music in many styles and genres, all drawn from my archive of vintage recordings.
I just uploaded one more episode that corresponds to the listening recommendations in my book, Electronic and Experimental Music. Please connect to the podcast at The Holmes Archive of Electronic Music. Enjoy!
Chapter 21, The San Francisco Tape Music Center
Playlist: THE SAN FRANCISCO TAPE MUSIC CENTER
Time | Track Time | Start |
Introduction –Thom Holmes | 01:30 | 00:00 |
Terry Riley, “Mescalin-Mix” (1960-62). Early tape collage and one of Riley’s first works for tape. | 14:23 | 01:38 |
Terry Riley, “Concerto For Two Pianos and Five Tape Recorders” )1961). Piano, LaMonte Young; piano and tape assemblage, Terry Riley. Recorded live. 1961 Riley-Terry_ConcertoForTwoPianos-b.wav | 04:36 | 15:56 |
Pauline Oliveros, “Apple Box Double” (performance 2008). This piece was composed for various configurations of apple crates that were touched and scraped with various objects while being amplified. The original dates from about 2006. This performance by Seth Cluett and Oliveros took place in 2008. | 12:45 | 20:30 |
Steve Reich, “Melodica” (1966). Tape piece and the last of Reich’s works before moving onto instrumental composition in his minimalist style. | 10:42 | 33:16 |
Morton Subotnick, “Laminations” (1966). For orchestra and electronic sounds, on tape. By this point, Subotnick was working with an early model of a synthesizer built for the San Francisco Tape Music Center by Donald Buchla. | 10:29 | 44:08 |
Morton Subotnick, “Prelude No.4 for piano and electronic tape (1966). Another Subotnick work for instruments and tape with synthesized electronic sounds. | 06:58 | 54:36 |
Pauline Oliveros, “Alien Bog” (1967). Utilizing the original Buchla Box 100 series created for the Tape Music Center by Don Buchla and a tape delay system. | 33:17 | 01:01:30 |
Morton Subotnick, “Silver Apples of the Moon” (1967). Subotnick, recently departed from San Francisco and taking up shop at New York University, brought synthesizers constructed for him by Don Buchla when he was at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. This electronic composition represented a high point for the use of synthesizers at that time and was recorded on commission from Nonesuch Records. | 32:01 | 01:35:00 |
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