This piece is from the last event I produced with my media band of the late 70s/early 80s, The Real* Electric Symphony. That band toured Europe and South America with the sponsorship of the US State Department and did scores of gigs in the SF Bay Area in all the usual venues and some unusual ones such as the UC Berkeley Campanile, the steps of the SF Opera House and the Plaza of the Lawrence Hall of Science high atop the Berkeley Hills. The imagery and sound in this piece are a slice of a 1984 day-long recording session at Hewlett-Packard in Santa Rosa, CA which included a free flowing and ever changing Real* Electric Symphony collection of San Francisco North Bay electronic musicians and visual artists. Although the musicians at this gathering were playing newly minted MIDI synthesizers and electric guitars/processors, the sounds and aesthetic in this recording are more like what you would hear from a pre-late 1960s classical electronic music studio rather than what you would hear from the music synthesizers that emerged in the late 1960s like the Moog, Buchla, ARP and Synthi or later when FM and the sampling mania took over the scene. The video imagery was created in a duet between an Apple IIe based video synthesizer invented and performed by Paul Gleaves and my music synthesizer (in this case by a Synthi AKS) driven laser animation system that was picked up by video camera and routed to the video synth to be used both as imagery and as a controller of video synth variables. youtu.be/g-M9jH_ACKU
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 17:39:10 +0000
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