New Electronic Music From Leaders of the Avant-Garde

by John Cage

New Electronic Music From Leaders of the Avant-Garde cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1967
  • Label: Columbia Masterworks
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 54:51
  • Community rating: 3.85/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This pioneering compilation serves as a critical survey of the mid-century American avant-garde's engagement with electronic and electroacoustic composition. Featuring John Cage's radical use of chance operations and tape manipulation alongside contemporaries, the record forcefully challenged established definitions of musical structure and performance. It stands as an essential educational primer for academic electronic music of the 1960s.

Genres

Descriptors: buzzy, noisy, avant-garde, piercing, electronic, experimental, aleatory, sampling

Tracklist

  1. Variations II (26:20)
  2. Ensembles For Synthesizer (10:38)
  3. I - L'Air Et L'Eau (5:09)
  4. II - Voix De La Ville (3:57)
  5. III - Forges (8:47)

Credits

  • John Cage - primary artist
  • Henri Pousseur - primary artist
  • Milton Babbitt - primary artist
  • Richard Mantel - artwork [cover art]
  • David Tudor - piano
  • David Behrman - producer

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