Henry Jacobs

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SZX7vIvPQWc/UKv4kl3T9TI/AAAAAAAAAzA/hadn9d03Xe8/s320/FW06301.jpg

Kind of need a thread for this guy for all the many long-storied phases of his career, although his 1950's radio collage show & electronic music & image experiments at the Morrison are perhaps what I'm trying to learn the most about. Whenever I hear those pieces, read those program notes, then catch the year, I can't quite imagine the reception -- he was so early

http://www.folkways.si.edu/highlights-of-vortex-electronic-experiments-and-music/contemporary/album/smithsonian
http://www.folkways.si.edu/radio-programme-no-1-henry-jacobs-music-and-folklore/humor-soundtracks-musicals/album/smithsonian

http://www.folkways.si.edu/images/magazine/2012_fall_winter/artist_spotlight_slides/artist_spotlight_slides_13.jpg

http://arthurmag.com/2010/05/25/one-man-goofing-a-visit-with-legendary-zen-humorist-henry-jacobs/

the man moved on last friday.

was always hoping I'd somehow meet someone who knew him and get to make a trip to mill valley before then, but you can't meet every hero

http://www.npr.org/2015/10/03/445015413/remembering-henry-jacobs-the-goof-off-who-pioneered-surround-sound

audio collage!

Very sorry to hear this. Never met the great man, either, but was pleased to be able to shine some attention his way a couple of times in Arthur. One of a kind life/career.

that Arthur interview is fantastic, thanks for that. rereading it now.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/318176-Henry-Jacobs
http://www.discogs.com/artist/808944-Shorty-Petterstein

his electronic pieces can be found across these early compilations, I sprung for the folkways CDR editions

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Sounds-Of-New-Music/master/735131
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Highlights-Of-Vortex/master/177394 (there is a Locust reissue of this later called Electronic Kabuki Mambo but it was an error to change this cover)

few people keep such a low profile while simultaneously being near the source of so much we take for granted, but imagine west coast electronic music & the san francisco tape music center without this guy putting together Vortex bills like that one above in 1958