AlbanyMusic3

ALBANY MUSIC 3

With another small grant in 1967, I expanded the studio. My interest was in creating a diversity of sound in tape-based compositions, as in Albany Music 3, but through interactive performance and mixing rather than the manual splicing of the 1950s.

To enable a diversity of sound in an interactive performance, I asked Robert Moog to build a four-track mixer with piano keys that functioned more like gates than mixer potentiometers, so I could combine different sounds simultaneously through the tracks by playing the keys and mixing recorded sounds with synthesized sounds. It was a semi-random performance approach, often producing surprising and excellent results.

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Blues Mix 1966
Albany Music 3 1966
Jack in January 1967
Street Scene 1967

Drift 1970
Ideas of Movement at Bolton Landing 1971
Echoes 1972

From The 14th On 1973

Flowers 1975
Settings for Spirituals 1977

Solo 1978
Scenes from Stevens 1979
Follow Me Softly 1984

After Some Songs 1995
Spring Drum with Pierre’s Words 1997

Many Times … 2001
One World 1 2006
Micro Fictions 2009
Different Cities 2013