Name: Deep Hockets by Pauline Oliveros by The Jewish Museum
Duration: 3 min 42 s
Description: On November 10 at the Jewish Museum, composer Pauline Oliveros performed The Sound of Meditation on V-Accordion, an instrument that produces both accordion and orchestral sounds. The concert blurs the boundary between the performer and the audience by asking the listener to participate in the making of music.

Otto Luenig & Vladmir Ussachevsky
Tape Recorder Music
7CACKLP

One of the very earliest and most important examples of electronic tape music to be pressed on to vinyl (alongside the Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française musique concrète compilations in France and Jim Fassett’s comedic Strange To Your Ears novelty record) this privately pressed 1955 LP was released on a one-off label owned by businessman Gene Bruck to document a custom made performance at the New York Museum Of Modern Art back in 1952.  This facsimile edition of this important LP archives remastered versions of the first recorded unison of Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky and a partnership that founded the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center at Columbia University in 1959, which would later count Ilhan Mimaroglu, Wendy Carlos, Dariush Dolat Shahi and Alice Shields as its graduates.

The October 28th 1952 performance showcased the debut of the seminal Fantasy In Space based on resampled flute recordings which were manipulated on magnetic tape to create an otherworldly melodic composition, stylistically begging comparison with the early recording of Kraftwerk (made some twenty years later) and bringing a palatable and tuneful alternative to the stark avant garde experiments of their French counterparts.  The mechanical construction of the track was even "performed" on prime time American television to celebrate this groundbreaking approach to modern music.  Alongside four other tracks the full programme comprises further experiments with manipulated recordings of bells and woodwind instruments subjected to mechanical "augmentation, diminution and retrograding" to create pieces that "cannot be played with conventional instruments."  In the following years labels like Folkways and Desto would also plunder this important session as a milestone in electronic music.

For the purpose of this release Cacophonic have also included the seldom heard 14 minute track A Poem In Cycles And Bells For Tape Recorder And Orchestra which was recorded using the same techniques with the Royal Danish Radio Orchestra in 1956 and released via the Composers Recordings Inc. label founded by Otto himself in 1954 (employing Vladimir in an advisory capacity) and operated for forty-nine years - releasing records by Harry Partch, Alwin Nikolais, John Cage and Alice Shields.  Also included on this edition is an expansion of the rare 10" original artwork by legendary graphic designer Ronald Clyne, an early example of his work made before he became in-house designer for Folkways Records rivaling the likes of Blue Note's Reid Miles for some of America’s most iconic record sleeves.

Otto Luenig & Vladmir Ussachevsky - Sonic Contours

Massimo Pellegrini, Pianoforte

This work was originally used as music for the eponymous choreographed piece by Merce Cunningham, following the rhythmic structure of the dance and using a fixed gamut of tones. Throughout, resonances are sustained, either manually or with the use of pedal. The music is essentially a single melodic line, except for the last few bars. This work is available in the C.F. Peters compilation “Piano Works 1935–48” (catalog number noted). An arrangement for solo viola and ensemble of 4 violas exists (arranged in 1974 by Cage?) is also available; according to Stefan Hussong (in the liner notes accompanying the CD Dream - Stefan Hussong plays John Cage, Denon CO-18069), a revision for organ also exists.

John Cage - Dream

Tracklist:

SW:SVN, SW, SV - 10-10- nomix
Wanda Group - Yellow Gang
Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi - Simferopol
Otik - Trifecta
PLATA - EGO TRIP
M.E.S.H. - Victim Lord
Acetantina - Blindside
Ludgate Squatter - Drowned in the Bathtub
Christina Vantzou - Wild Beast Research
Selm - Selfsub
Jjakub - Greenwood
Kingfisherg - Patch Face
Carl Crack - KR-6200

I do not have the rights to this music. I am using it for promotional and cultural purposes only. If there is a copyright issue with the mix, I will remove it immediately.

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On November 10 at the Jewish Museum, composer Pauline Oliveros performed The Sound of Meditation on V-Accordion, an instrument that produces both accordion and orchestral sounds. The concert blurs the boundary between the performer and the audience by asking the listener to participate in the making of music.

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Deep Hockets by Pauline Oliveros

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Deep Hockets by Pauline Oliveros

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