Joan La Barbara John Cage Tapesongs - Experimental LP

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LP - JOAN LA BARBARA - Tapesongs

 

Tracks: Cathing (Joan La Barbara) / Solo For Voice 45 (JOHN CAGE) / Thunder (Joan La Barbara)

 

Label - Chiaroscuro Records CR-196

 

Rare 1977 lp with 3 works performed by La Barbara combining wild experimental vocals with electronics and magnetic tape. Cage's Solo For Voice uses chance methods to derive pitches from star maps; La Barbara created a tape collage of her performance by simultaneously layering 16 different panned tracks, one for each of the composition's parts. La Barbara's piece Cathing cuts up and electronically alters pieces of a recorded interview with a singer, and brings in several tracks of La Barbara's own microtuned singing of "split tones, glissandos, high flutters, and various kinds of vocal percussion". Thunder attempts to suggest the sound-world of a thunderstorm, and features La Barbara electronically processing her own voice along with the tympani playing of Warren Smith and Bruce Ditmas. An amusing acrostic poem by Cage about La Barbara is printed on the back.

Record VG++

Jacket VG+ Sticker Upper Left Corner

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