Pioneers of Electronic Music

Pioneers of Electronic Music

In 1950, the Columbia University Music Department requisitioned a tape recorder to use in teaching and for recording concerts. In 1951, the first tape recorder arrived, an Ampex 400, and Vladimir Ussachevsky, then a junior faculty member, was assigned a job that no one else wanted: the care of the tape recorder. This job was to have important consequences for Ussachevsky and the medium he developed. Electronic music was born. Over the next ten years, Ussachevsky and his collaborators established the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, which Ussachevsky directed for twenty years. It was the first large electronic music center in the United States, thanks to the path-breaking support of the Rockefeller Foundation and encouragement from two of the countryâ€™s leading universities. The Center became one of the best-known and most prolific sources of electronic music in the world. All of the music on this historic reissue (originally released on CRI CD 611) is the result of the pioneering work of the Center and its composers. The guest composers and Columbia-associated composers who have produced pieces at the Center include BÃ¼lent Arel, Luciano Berio, Mario Davidovsky, Jacob Druckman, Arthur Kreiger, Daria Semegen, Pril Smiley, and Edgard VarÃ¨se. Ussachevskyâ€™s own students at the Center included Jon Appleton, Wendy Carlos, Charles Dodge, Robert Moog, Alice Shields, Harvey Sollberger, and Charles Wuorinen. Of the seven composers most closely associated with the Center from its early years, six are present on this disc.
Country USA
Brand NE WORLD RECORDS
Manufacturer New World Records
Binding Audio CD
ReleaseDate 2006-04-25
UnitCount 1
Format CD
UPCs 093228064428
EANs 0932280644288

Country	USA
Brand	NE WORLD RECORDS
Manufacturer	New World Records
Binding	Audio CD
ReleaseDate	2006-04-25
UnitCount	1
Format	CD
UPCs	093228064428
EANs	0932280644288

Pioneers of Electronic Music

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