Rainforest

by David Tudor

Rainforest cover art

Originally conceived in 1968 for choreographer Merce Cunningham, this seminal piece of avant-garde sound art utilizes everyday physical objects as resonant loudspeakers. This archival release captures the chaotic, fascinatingly organic collision of electronic oscillators running through varied materials, mimicking the dense, teeming sonic ecosystem of a jungle.

Genres

  • Electroacoustic
  • Sound Art

Tracklist

  1. Rainforest (Version I)
  2. Sliding Pitches In The Rainforest In The Field: Rainforest (Version IV)