Kenneth Gaburo
Music for Voices, Instruments & Electronic Sounds
Nonesuch (US) 1968
H-71199 (LP) Original pressing.
sleeve : EX+(light wear on corner)
media : EX-/EX-(some slightly noise. slightly wear that does not affect to sounds)
A 1968 album by American composer Kenneth Gaburo, who studied at the Eastman School of Music, worked with Goffredo Petrassi at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome from 1954 to 1955, and later earned his doctorate at the University of Illinois, where he also taught. Side A features an approximately sixteen-and-a-half-minute electroacoustic work for sixteen voices and electronic sound, created between 1962 and 1963 at the electronic music studios of Yale University and the University of Illinois. The piece explores the transformation of language into pure sound by breaking it down to the level of individual phonemes. B1 is a tape composition combining musique concrète with electronically generated sounds, while B2 collages live performances on piccolo, bass trombone, and double bass with taped voices. Rather than relying primarily on electronic oscillators or conventional electronic instruments, these pieces construct their sound worlds through the manipulation, layering, and transformation of voices, acoustic instruments, and tape. A fascinating collection of highly distinctive electroacoustic works.
A1: Antiphony III (Pearl-White Moments)
B1: Exit Music I: The Wasting Of Lucrecetzia