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Gordon Mumma

Dresden / Venezia / Megaton (LP)

Label: Lovely Music, Ltd.

Format: LP

Genre: Electronic

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Original 1979 first pressing of one of the most uncompromising records out on Lovely Music and of the American avant-garde at large.

** condition: EX/VG+ (minimal ring wear on front and back cover and small cut on the lower part of the spine) **  The works found on this album dates from the 1960s and represent the efforts of a man to invent uniquely different sounds and music during a time when the best available tools to work with were audio testing oscillators, tape machines, and home-made mixing, filtering and processing gizmos. Mumma builds his own instruments, and often does so with an express purpose or specific piece of music in mind. This is also a body of music that defies categorization. He works outside of the norm, designing and experimenting as much with the structure of his music as he does with the creation of his electrical devices. He composes for impact, touching the sensibilities that we all possess for reacting to sound. Since the common theme of the works on this album is war, the images tend to be stark and profoundly disturbing.
Gordon Mumma performs on horn and electronics in what could be easily defined as one of the most essential records of Third-Mind new music! As experimental and extreme as it could be!!!

Details
File under: Experimental
Cat. number: VR 1091
Year: 1979
Notes:
Composed at the Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music (Ann Arbor, Michigan) - A1: 1965, A2: 1964, B: 1963. Remixed at The Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College (Oakland, California). "Music from the Venezia Space Theatre" uses parts of André Boucourechliev's "Texte II". All compositions published by Cybersonic Arts (BMI) ©Ⓟ 1979 Vital Records, Inc. All rights reserved. Made in the U.S.A.