New Music For Digital & Recorded Media: Ladies In Digital Music -1977

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The music on this album reveals an thrilling, wide-open, freewheeling strategy to the medium of digital music which has come to be typical of this style within the late Seventies. Now not are composers obsessively involved with the agonizing, expressionistic, and purely “digital” (synthesized) sound formulation which marked a lot of this music composed between the mid Fifties and the late Sixties. As an alternative, right now we have now composers prepared to combine media and sonic supplies in totally ingenious methods to realize ends that are new-sounding, and infrequently extra participating, than that of the “educational” avant-garde. That is the outgrowth of a elementary change in considerations which has been evolving not solely amongst members are a few of themost fecund and impressed. These new wources of inspiratin cerainly werer not as extensively shared fifteen years agao. A number of composers represented listed here are deeply involved with Jap musics and their subsequent metamorphoses into such standard varieties as rock and roll. Nonetheless others convey to bear a way of wit and satire, hardly ever a distinguished characteristic of avant-garde music within the early Nineteen Sixties. This primary anthology of girls’s digital music demonstrates nice refinement and talent at work in quite a lot of completely different kinds, a number of of that are unfamiliar or new even to those that observe modern music. The truth that these items are extra listenable than that of the Sixties avant-garde doesn’t level to a musical regression as some critics have overeagerly assumed when discussing trendy works utilizing, say, consonant harmonic constructions. -Charles Amirkhanian, August 1977 (This recording was orginally issued as CRI CD 728)