Best track on OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music 1948-1980

"Cindy Electronium” all the way.

i might put a donk on it

Just heard Varese's Poem Électronique in a planetarium with surround sound and visuals. Led to an interesting discussion - what volume would the piece have been played at originally? Cause it seemed a bit quiet, but certainly even softly the content alone would have been enough to freak the squares out at the World's Fair, or not?

thread makes me wanna listen to records

"Poppy Nogood"

picked the lamonte young track just cos its one of the few legit releases of the real good stuff

I've been listening to this recently, it's a really good comp, nice packaging too. I will have to listen again before voting.

The top contenders for my vote:

Karlheinz Stockhausen “Kontakte” [ 6:20 ]
Milton Babbitt “Philomel” [ 4:57 ]
Morton Subotnick "Silver Apples of the Moon Part 1" [ 4:20 ]
Jean-Claude Risset “Mutations”[ 4:55 ]
Bernard Parmegiani “En Phase / Hors Phase” [ 2:29 ]
John Chowning “Stria” [ 5:11 ]

I guess I'll vote Subotnick, even though I like other albums better than "Silver Apples." But Mario Davidovsky really should be on this compilation (Synchronisms 6 probably), and if he were he'd very likely be my top pick.

voted bob ashley.

technically impossible, but it's down to the Tudor or the Amacher, even though in both cases I'm voting for the full length versions, you can't edit a rainforest or a living sound

i havent heard that amacher to be totally 100% honest, it's kind of embarasssing. the tudor is great. other contenders for me: Lucier, Dockstader, Xenakis.

Close call between Alvin Curran and Jon Hassell. Went with Curran.

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automatic writing!!!

Have a feeling there won't be too many votes here...

Although the first disc has a lot of historically important pieces, it is hard for me to love most of the music on it. My favorite is MEV's "Spacecraft" which has a fire-music sensibility. The second and third discs have many more tracks that I find engaging. The French musique-concrete pieces on the second disc leave me cold, but I love David Tudor's "Rainforest Version I", with its alein animated objects, Terry Riley's "Poppy Nogood", Holgar Czukay's "Boat-Woman Song", and La Monte Young's "Drift Study" excerpt, which in retrospect sounds like a precursor to Ryoji Ikeda's "Matrix" with its sine wave interference. On the third disc my favorites are the pieces by Robert Ashley and MEV's Alvin Curran. Ashley's "Automatic Writing" in particular, has a psycologically probing sinister quality that is arresting. The processed vocals of Alvin Curran's "Canti Illuminati" are also haunting.

Reading about the installation to which Maryanne Amacher's piece was a contribution makes me curious about her other works, none of which I've heard.

Hard to decide. I guess my three favorites are the Tudor, Ashley, and Curran tracks. I'm going with "Automatic Writing".

ah, this HUGE pack of music history(yawn), pop ancestors in combination with coffee & cigarette on a sunny saturday morning is the perfect condition for self-edutainment! thank you.

Needs the Doctor Who theme.

Xenakis
Tudor
Varèse
Scott
Amacher
Dockstader
Czukay
Riley
Barron

Difficult to choose between these (and many more to be fair), went for Xenakis but it's a shame they couldn't have found room for Takemitsu. Also a shame they reissued the set with an extra DVD after I bought the original issue but there ya go.

This really is difficult, but I went with 'Automatic Writing' as well.

Also a shame they reissued the set with an extra DVD after I bought the original issue but there ya go.

OTM.

I'm probably not going to be able to decide before this closes. It's between Stockhausen, Scott, Subotnick, and Ashley, pretty much. Though I'd like to rep for the Barrons also - the Forbidden Planet soundtrack is awesome.

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Nice!

ah shite didn't know about this, would have liked to give music on a long thin wire a token vote.

support your local Raymond Scott (regards to the infamous audiogalaxy-slsk pop lounge-luxuriamusic gang).
i like him too, but voted Oscar Sala for having a bit more charm IMO.

And its Oskar. He iz Zerman.

Good result, nicely spread, although I'd also would've 'tokened' Alvin Lucier on this.

This post reminded me to listen to John Cage's Williams Mix. I happen to like this but the people booing on the recording apparently didn't.

Awesome bit in the Mark Mothersbaugh Invisible Jukebox in the new Wire where he talks about visiting Raymond Scott and becoming a trustee of his estate.