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Gordon Mumma

Mesa / Pontpoint / Fwyyn (LP)

Label: Lovely Music, Ltd.

Format: LP

Genre: Sound Art

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Original 1986 edition on Lovely of music for bandoneaon and cybersonic console by Mumma featuring David Tudor and Pauline Oliveros. Only the best of the best!

** condition: NM/EX **  The three compositions on this recording feature the bandoneon, a polyphonic, metal-reed instrument of the concertina family. “Mesa”, originally commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, is performed here by David Tudor on bandoneon while Gordon Mumma is deconstructing in a East Bionic Kosugi way working on the cybersonic console. “Pontpoint” utilizes the bandoneon and a bowed psaltery, a multi-stringed zither, the sounds of both instruments being modified in the most refined way with ‘cybersonic’ procedures developed by the composer. “Fwyyn”, a bandoneon duo by Pauline Oliveros and Gordon Mumma, is the only work on the recording in which the natural acoustical sound of the instrument is heard… and it’s as blissful as you can only imagine in your wildest dreams.

Details
Cat. number: VR 1092
Year: 1986
Notes:
'Mesa' commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and premiered at Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul de Vence, France, 1966 August 6. 'Pontpoint' commissioned by Cirque and premiered at Cirque Studio, Portland, 1980 March 14. 'Fwyyn' premiered as part of the production 'Fwyynghn' at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, 1980 March 4.