#4135: Early Interactive Computer Music
Hear works by electronic music pioneers who were interested in and specifically developed techniques for interactivity like Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnick, and David Behrman.
Listen to not-so-new music by record producer, pioneer of computer music, and a member of one of the foundational groups of American electronic composers, the Sonic Arts Union, David Behrman. Hear his musical feedback loop – “On the Other Ocean”. Also, hear interactive work by Pauline Oliveros based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, recorded at a New Sounds Live concert in 1991. With the Deep Listening Band, Oliveros and her accordion, and wordless overtone singing, the piece used her Expanded Instrument System where sound was shifted and processed. Plus, music from Morton Subotnick and his Yamaha computer-assisted music system (developed in the 1980’s), written for the return of Haley’s Comet.
Surviving members of said Sonic Arts Union and special guests are performing July 21 at Issue Project Room.
Program #4135 Early Interactive Computer Music (First aired 7/19/2018)
ARTIST: Pauline Oliveros & Deep Listening Band
WORK: Queens of Space [1:00]
RECORDING: NS Live, 1991
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: deeplistening.org
ARTIST: David Behrman
WORK: On the Other Ocean [18:28]
RECORDING: On the Other Ocean
SOURCE: Lovely Music CD/LP 1041
INFO: lovely.com
ARTIST: Pauline Oliveros & Deep Listening Band
WORK: Queens of Space [25:00]
RECORDING: NS Live, 1991
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: deeplistening.org
ARTIST: Morton Subotnick
WORK: Return, A Triumph of Reason, end of part 1 [8:21]
RECORDING: Key to Songs /The Return
SOURCE: New Albion 012
INFO: Available at iTunes or Amazon.com
