The Evolution of Digital Music: A 100-Year Journey

Restricted 4 vinyl LP urgent. An astounding, epic journey into the extra obscure areas of early digital music, Phillip Werren’s Digital Music is a wellspring of up to date composition throughout 4 LPs. Initially launched in 1971 in an version of 100 copies, this impossibly uncommon piece of early Canadian digital music has lastly been reissued on vinyl in an actual reproduction field with a silk-screened cowl. Digital Music was recorded at Simon Fraser College (Vancouver), McGill College (Montreal) and Radio Warzawa (Poland) between 1967 and 1971. Influenced as a lot by serialism as by psychedelia and the occult, the album options components of tape collage, voice, and experimental composition. Many of the recordings had been carried out on a Buchla System 100, one of many first modular synthesizers. An absorbing piece of the Canadian avant-garde, Digital Music is a journey via house, sound, texture, and unbridled experimentation. Really helpful for followers of artist starting from Stockhausen, Xenakis, and Ferrari to Basil Kirchin, Conrad Schnitzler, Throbbing Gristle, and Coil – Manufactured Recordings’ reissue of Digital Music goals to make clear this crucially neglected composer.