| Library of Congress meets the Mothers of Invention [message #248104] |
Di, 18 April 2006 02:41 |
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Librarian of Congress Names 50 Recordings to the 2005 National Recording
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http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2006/06-083.html
Check out #42
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| Re: Library of Congress meets the Mothers of Invention [message #254144 ] |
Di, 18 April 2006 13:03 |
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"Tom Richards" <no [at] not.now> wrote in message
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> Librarian of Congress Names 50 Recordings to the 2005 National Recording
> Registry
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> http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2006/06-083.html
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> Check out #42
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> Apologies for antispam -- to reply, combine "tcrjazz" at "yahoo" dot "com"
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> I AM the thought police, and judge, jury and executioner. My jurisdiction:
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35. "Poeme Electronique," Edgard Varese (1958)
Described by composer Joel Chadabe as "the ultimate statement of tape music
as musique concrete," this work premiered in the Philips pavilion designed
by famed architect Le Corbusier for the 1958 Brussels Exposition. The work
incorporated innumerable recorded sounds - voices, sirens, bells, tone
generators - that were all heard by visitors to the pavilion from 425
loudspeakers positioned throughout the hall. The speakers allowed the sound
to be moved through the space in interesting patterns that clashed with or
complemented an array of projected images. The Columbia release (ML 5148)
used the actual tapes that Edgard Varese employed in the original
performance.
42. "We're Only in It for the Money," Frank Zappa and the Mothers of
Invention (1968)
Frank Zappa's inventive and iconoclastic album presents a unique political
stance, both anti-conservative and anti-counterculture, and features a
scathing satire on hippiedom and America's reactions to it. The album art is
a brilliant parody of the Beatles' sleeve design for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band."Zappa's radical audio editing and production techniques
produced an eclectic blend of electronic, avant-garde and rock music that
was influenced by composers such as Varese and Stravinsky, with pop
melodies, virtuoso instrumental performances, verbal asides and sound
effects that segue into a cohesive work. The result is an electronic sound
collage that may be Zappa's definitive musical statement on America in the
1960s.
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