Vladimir Ussachevsky is chiefly remembered as a pioneer in composing music for tape and as a co-founder with Otto Luening of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, but he is somewhat less recognized for his vocal and instrumental music. Fortunately, Ussachevsky's work is fairly well represented by this 2007 reissue from New World, originally released in 1999 on CRI; the program presents some of his experiments in musique concrète from the late 1950s through the 1960s, as well as two choral works from the 1970s. ...
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Vladimir Ussachevsky is chiefly remembered as a pioneer in composing music for tape and as a co-founder with Otto Luening of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, but he is somewhat less recognized for his vocal and instrumental music. Fortunately, Ussachevsky's work is fairly well represented by this 2007 reissue from New World, originally released in 1999 on CRI; the program presents some of his experiments in musique concrète from the late 1950s through the 1960s, as well as two choral works from the 1970s. Fans of early tape music will find Metamorphosis (1957), Linear Contrasts (1958), Wireless Fantasy (1960), and Of Wood and Brass (1965) to be classics of the genre and rather easy to approach for their clear gestural style, atmospheric sonorities, and transparent textures. Computer Piece No. 1 (1968) and Two Sketches for a Computer Piece (1971) demonstrate Ussachevsky's advances in the medium and are more challenging for their denser materials and rapid changes of mood. A...
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