[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“.it is probably a precursor to the more current synthesizers, etc.?”

All they had were the first very, very basic first synthesis. Much more tone generators and tape manipulation,

Here is my favorite Classical electronic composition, by my favorite composer; This is the piece that scared my friends! I abdo-lutely love it!;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpBPh6OU3zE

[Fresh Wind]

Any opinion on Lejaren Hiller?

[berdie]

Thanks for sharing, Dr.

I don’t find the music scary at all. But that could be due to a life time of living around musicians who seemed to spend endless hours experimenting with different sounds and ultimately incorporating them into a musical composition. In the “old” days some pretty strange sounds were made with some pretty very day devices. Then, with the advent of more advanced electronic gear...well I’m sure you know the rest of that story!

I think I read in an earlier post that you hear music as a whole. I’m just the opposite. I seem to hear each instrument separately. So when these sounds would be incorporated into a musical piece I could always identify the drip of water, elongated, sped up and lowered several octaves, lol.

Thanks again for sharing.