http://rapidshare.com/files/337629631/JCLH-HPSCHD-1969.rar
Tracklisting:
A1: John Cage & Lejaren Hiller - HPSCHD
B1: Ben Johnston - String Quartet No. 2, Light And Quick: With Grace And Humor
B2: Ben Johnston - String Quartet No. 2, Intimate, Spacious
B3: Ben Johnston - String Quartet No. 2, Extremely Minute And Intense [etc.]
HPSCHD PERSONNEL:
Computer [Original Computer Programming] - Laetitia Snow
Engineer - George Ritscher
Harpsichord [Baldwin Solid-body Electronic] - David Tudor
Harpsichord [Hubbard Double With 17% Eltro Time Compression] - Neely Bruce
Harpsichord [Neupert Bach-model] - Antoinette Vischer
Tape [Preparation Of Original Sound Tapes] - James Cuomo
Technician [Technical Processing Of The Tape Collage] - Jaap Spek
HPSCHD (1967-1969) for harpsichords & computer generated sound tapes. String Quartet No. 2 (1964) The computer-output sheet included in this album is one of 10,000 different numbered solutions of the program KNOBS. It enables the listener who follows its instructions to become a performer of this recording of HPSCHD.
HPSCHD, a collaboration between John Cage and Lejaren Hiller was first performed on May 16, 1969 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, called for seven harpsichords playing randomly-processed music by Mozart and other composers, 51 tapes of computer-generated sounds, approximately 5,000 slides of abstract designs and space exploration, and several films, all of which were performed or presented simultaneously in an asynchronous and exuberant anarchy of activity.
STRING QUARTET NO. 2 PERSONNEL:
Cello - Seymour Barab
Strings - The Composers Quartet
Viola - Bernard Zaslov
Violin - Anahid Ajemian
Violin - Matthew Raimondi
Composed in 1964, Ben Johnston's String Quartet No. 2 continues Johnston's brilliant compositions which utilize different tuning systems. Hearers of classics originally played in just intonation (pre-even-tempered tuning) would experience modulations within a piece as radical changes that added depth to the music subsequently lost with the adoption of even-temperament of modern times.
320kbps mp3 fresh rip from mint vintage vinyl, HQ cover & insert scans included in archive.
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a continuación un texto extraído del libro "Electronic and Experimental Music 3r ed." de Thom Holmes :
" Another performance that must go down in history as one of the most complex multimedia events ever staged occurred in 1969 at the University of Illinois. John Cage and Lejaren Hiller teamed up to present a joint composition called HPSCHD. Using a computer-derived extrapolation of the I Ching developed for Cage, the two assembled 51 sound tapes generated by computer and combined them in a live setting with the activities of seven harpsichordists. The work was presented in a sports arena, with the electronic sounds amplified by 51 individual speakers mounted along the ceiling. Seven additional speakers were also used to amplify the harpsichords. In addition, 52 slide
projectors provided streams of unrelated imagery, which was projected onto a large hanging screen measuring 100 feet by 160 feet as well as a semicircular screen that ran 340 feet around the inside rim of the ceiling. For five hours, hundreds of people sat in the bleachers and milled around on the main floor of the arena immersed in this sensory bath. It was big and absorbing and live. The commercial recording of HPSCHD released by Nonesuch Records (H-71224) in 1969 included a computer printout (individualized for each copy of the record) with a randomly generated set of instructions for controlling the volume, treble, and bass knobs on one’s stereo while listening to the music. Each printout was individually numbered. Mine happens to be “Output Sheet No. 374.” "
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