DUB TAYLOR Lumiere For Synthesized & Concrete Sound LP 1973 Orig Electronic EX
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DUB TAYLOR : Lumière For Synthesized & Concrete Sound LP (Varese International [USA] VS 81001) 1973.
Record (translucent blue vinyl) is excellent with minimal light marks only. Cover is VG with light ring wear, small splits (about 1") at the edges of the top and bottom seams, and five pieces of clear tape on the spine (neatly applied).
Original copy of this crazy 1973 private electronic LP, the only release (as far as we know) by American composer/engineer/artist Dub Taylor. This was bootlegged on CDR a few years ago by Creel Pone, and reissued again recently by Sub Rosa.
From the Sub Rosa press release:
"lumière evolved over a period of three years from 1969 to 1972. i started by recording random sounds: jets taking off at lax, my girlfriend laughing and screaming, my cat bartok biting a microphone, conversations, etc. i also sampled music, film soundtracks and tv and radio broadcasts.
during this period i acquired the first self-contained portable synthesizer, the newly-designed arp 2600. i began to envision an electronic and musique concrete piece combining various natural and processed sound recordings with synthesized sound into a suite of noise.
in june of 1972 i did a preliminary version of elements of the piece. by october i was ready to put it all together. i set up all these reel to reel machines with tapes i had pre-recorded and plugged them into a mixing board, feeding stereo to a two-track master 15 ips revox a77 tape deck. my idea was to create a sound collage with form but without losing spontaneity and an element randomness. so i rehearsed my fade-ins and fade-outs and the starting and stopping of the various playback decks and when i was ready i went for it, 'playing' all these machines like a musical instrument in this mad moment of creation.
in effect, lumière was a 'live' performance. the only later additions were the silence gaps inserted near the end of the piece using pieces of blank leader tape."
-- Dub Taylor
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