Early ElectroMIX #8 Early ElectroMIX is a series to document the history of experimental Electronic music from the 50s to the 80s in hope that these pioneers may not be forgotten. Bohdan Mazurek - Six Electronic Preludes (1981 / Bölt) 00:00 > 11:28 Bohdan Mazurek was a Polish composer, sound director and educator, associated with the Polish Radio Experimental Studio and most assuredly a key figure in the genre. Back then, one would think of a producer as someone whose task was to translate composer’s ideas into the language of the studio and its current capabilities. As a producer he was open to the ideas of the composers collaborating with the studio, he helped beginners in defining their expectations, at the same time refraining from being too intrusive; his productions always demonstrated a great care for the culture of sound, thought-out spatial arrangement and revealed his solid musical preparation. Mazurek produced important electroacoustic and electronic pieces by a whole range of well-known composers, including Roman Berger, Krzysztof Penderecki, Bogusław Schaeffer, Tomasz Sikorski, as well as Benno Ammann, Herbert Brun, Vittorio Gelmetti, Lejaren Hiller, Benjamin Johnston, Kare Kolberg, Arne Nordheim, Teresa Rampazzi, Tamas Ungvary, and many others. Whenever composers from abroad came to visit, Mazurek hosted them at his own apartment... Ramon Sender - Worldfood XII (1965 / Locust) 09 > 25:56 Another man of great importance Ramón Sender Barayón (born October 29, 1934) is a composer, visual artist and writer who was the co-founder with Morton Subotnick of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in 1962 and also collaborated with composers and visual artists including Pauline Oliveros, Tony Martin, Joseph Byrd, Terry Riley, William Maginnis, and many others until 1966 when the Center was incorporated into Mills College. Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples Of The Moon pt. 1 (1967 / Nonesuch) 18:22 > 33:06 Considered a milestone in electronic music; it was the first album from the American composer, commissioned by Nonesuch Recordings and to feature a voltage-based synthesizer (the legendary Buchla System 100) and the first piece of both classical and electronic music written specifically for the album format. André Boucourechliev - Texte 2 (1959 / Sub Rosa) 30:56 > 35:30 Born in Sofia, Boucourechliev studied piano at the Conservatory there. Subsequently, he studied in Paris at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where he later taught piano. His first attempts at composition date from 1954, when he was engaged in the famous contemporary music sessions at Darmstadt. He honed his compositional technique by seeking out Berio and Maderna in Milan and then spent a period in America, during which he met Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Rauschenberg. Wolf Vostell - Elektronicher dé-collage. Happening Raum (1968 / Sub Rosa) 35:04 > 38 Wolf Vostell was a German painter and sculptor, considered one of the early adopters of video art and installation artand pioneer of Happenings and Fluxus. Techniques such as blurring and Dé-coll/age are characteristic of his work, as is embedding objects in concrete and the use of television sets in his works. John Cage - Williams Mix (1952 / Wergo) 37:46 > 42:10 The first octophonic music work originated from recordings by Louis and Bebe Barron, placed in eight simultaneously played independent quarter-inch magnetic tapes. The piece was created by Cage with the assistance of Earle Brown, Morton Feldman, and David Tudor, using many tape sound sources and a paper score he created for the construction. "Presignifying the development of algorithmic composition, granular synthesis and sound diffusion," it was the third of five pieces completed in the Project for Music for Magnetic Tape. Pierre Henry - Astrologie (1953 / Club National Du Disque) 42:01 > 44:30 French pioneer of musique concrète began experimenting at the age of 15 with sounds produced by various objects. He became fascinated with the integration of noise into music. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen, and Félix Passerone at the Paris Conservatoire from 1938 to 1948 and then worked at the Club d'Essai studio at RTF, which had been founded by Pierre Schaeffer in 1943… The rest is history ! Michel Redolfi - Immersion Profonde (1980 / Editions Mego) 43:20 > 49:36 Michel Redolfi is a French electroacoustic composer and experimental musician from Marseille, best known for the 'underwater music' concept. In 1969, he co-founded GMEM (Groupe de musique expérimentale de Marseille) with Marcel Frémiot and Georges Boeuf. Redolfi moved to the USA in 1973, working as a guest resident at several major computer music research centers: Bregman Digital Music Studio at Dartmouth College (directed by Jon Appleton, one of the inventors of groundbreaking digital synthesizer Synclavier), University of Wisconsin-Madison studios, and California Institute Of The Arts. He collaborated with several prominent composers and musicians in the United States, such as Terry Riley, Jon Hassell, Daniel R. Harris, Steve Shehan, and John Cage. From 1977 to 1984, Michel Redolfi worked at the UC San Diego, where Center For Music Experiment had been funding his pioneering research in a liquid environment music broadcasting, Project WET – Water Electronically Tuned. Some of his albums were inspired by American natural landscapes. André Jaume - Opalescence (1980 / Côte D'Azur) 49:28 > 55:21 This song came from « Hardscore » a split album with Redolfi, as André Jaume is a saxophonist, clarinet player and flutist, born in Marseille. Vladimir Ussachevsky - Wireless Fantasy (1960 / Ellipsis Arts) 55:21 > 59:57 Even if he started composing Electronic music in 1951, together with Otto Luening, Ussachevsky founded, in 1959, the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City. While acting as head of the Electronic Music Center Ussachevsky specified the ADSR envelope in 1965, a basic component of modern synthesizers, samplers and electronic instruments. He served as president of the American Composers Alliance from 1968 to 1970 and was an advisory member of the CRI record label, which released recordings of a number of major Electronic works.

Early ElectroMIX is a series documenting the history of experimental electronic music from the 1950s to the 1980s. Featuring composers making use of electronic instruments, test equipment, generators of synthetic signals and sounds, to analog synthesizers, including Delia Derbyshire (The BBC Radiophonic Workshop ), Ilhan Mimaroglu, Alvin Lucier, Brian Eno, Tod Dockstader, Louis and Bebe Barron, Pierre Henry, Kraftwerk, Daphné Oram, György Ligeti, John Cage, David Tudor, Bernard Herrmann, Morton Subotnick, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Max Mathews, Suzanne Ciani, Pauline Oliveros, Priscilla Mc Lean, Hugh Le Caine, Iannis Xenakis, Bruno Maderna, Henri Pousseur, Pril Smiley, Milton Babbitt, Toru Takemitsu, Denis Smalley, Annea Lockwood, Ruth Anderson, Makoto Moroi, Guy Reibel, Joel Chadabe, and countless other luminaries.

"While our sessions document those who make the music today my desire is to transmit some pioneering works which paved the way to what we try to create. Realizing that most of those seminal recordings were not available I decided to archive them in a contemporary way, DJing-mixing them and while most of the time running several sources together or in medleys I made sure to respect the original intent of each composer as I want to transmit their message rather than mine. The only one I would dare deliver being that they should not be forgotten… " — Philippe Petit 

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A journalist for various magazines and radio DJ since 1983, as well as a musical activist, [Philippe Petit](www.philippepetit.info) has celebrated more than 35 years of sharing and transmitting his musical passions. Since the early 2000s Petit has served as a « musical travel agent and has been performing the world. Feeling lucky to release on several international labels such as Aagoo, Southern UK, Monotype, Bölt, Alrealon Musique, Beta Lactam Ring, Sub Rosa, HomeNormal, Important, Public Eyesore, Utech, and Staubgold.

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