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>>BTW, Moog was on Performance Toady (and an interview w/Moog is one of the
>>few things that will get me to sit through an hour of that show!) to
>>promote a new compilation CD called "Ohm: Early Gurus of Electronic Music
>>1948-1980." I picked this up yesterday, and, while I've only listened to
>>the first disc thus far, it's a wonderful collection. Mostly focussed on
>>"classical" EM: Messian, Stockhausen, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, etc. I
>>have
>>some of the stuff on the discs already, but there's a fair amount I'd never
>>heard before. Great notes & beautiful packaging too.
>
>
>We don't get Performance Today here, but I'd like to hear that one. The Early
>Guru's does look like a good CD.
>
Got through the other 2 discs today, and it's a terrific collection of
music! Even though it's basically organised chronologically, the pieces
really flow together well. And there are some real surprises: a Paul Lansky
piece for computer-generated voices that is just absolutely beautiful, an
early Pauline Oliveros piece that sounds like DJ Spooky, etc...
>
> by Pierre Henry (maybe Schaeffer was there
>>>too) from maybe around 1968. It was musique concrete (naturally) and was
>>an
>>>album length work where all the pieces were made from recordings of a
>>saw, a
>>>squeak of a door hinge, and a human sigh.
>
>>It's "Variations for a Door and a Sigh" (aptly named!), and it is an
>>incredible piece. It's on CD, on if I remember rightly, Harmonia Mundi.
>
Harmonia Mundi HMC 905200. Was still available a couple of years ago, at least.
>
>Trenkel, you are my man!!!! I got to check out HM CDs ti see if this is the
>case. I owe you a Three Stooges Beer -- if I can find one.

Aw shucks, just doin'my job, spreadin' wierd music to the masses...
>
>JB> "Hello, do you have Three Stooges in a bottle?"
>Liquor store clerk> "Not since we got Prince Albert out of that can!" Click!
>JB> "Hello? Hello?"
>
*groan*

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