#Vladimir Ussachevsky

[traumagician]

Commission for an avant-garde electronic music symposium (Vu 2023) of pioneering electronic musician Vladimir Ussachevsky

#trau draws #vladimir ussachevsky #music history #artists on tumblr

[laurentgudel]

State Music — Residency at Columbia University / Computer Music Center

I spent five weeks in NYC between March and April 2023. It was a fantastic opportunity to work at the Computer Music Center in New York. The CMC is the first electronic music studio in the USA and Seth Cluett was kind enough to let me continue my research in the best conditions.

During this stay I was able to compose two new pieces for my forthcoming debut album State Music. The first was recorded in Studio 324 on two very early versions of Buchla and Serge analogue modular systems and two Bode frequency shifters. The process was similar to what I had done at EMS Stockholm, Radio Belgrade, KSYME Athens and Willem Twee Studio in Den Bosch. I tried to adapt to the machines installed in the studio, tested a lot of patches and recorded many hours of textures, accidents and other sonic events using a variety of techniques. The editing, collaging, layering and mixing was done later in my studio. I just followed one rule. Don't use the same recording twice. No loops, nothing like that.

The second composition was recorded in Jace Clayton's office. Why? Because the RCA Mark II, considered one of the first music synthesizers ever, still sits in that room. The synth has been out of order since 1976, when someone broke into the Prentis Hall building and vandalised the machine. But I decided to make use of it anyway. I opened one of the office windows to let sounds from the city into the room and recorded the tiny vibrations caused by street noise with a geophone magnetised to the synthesizer. In this way the synthesiser essentially acted as a loudspeaker. A cheap recorder was placed near the window. Two wide cardioid microphones were placed in the middle of the room for a high quality recording. Most of the time I sit in front of the synthesizer and do nothing but listen, and every now and then I flip a switch, turn a potentiometer or unplug a patch cable to activate the acoustic space of the office and make the metal frame of the machine vibrate.

It was an amazing moment. I've been working on the State Music project since 2018. I realised that being in that room with that silent machine felt like achieving something. My understanding of electronic music history is much deeper. The links between early synthesizers and the military industry are now much clearer to me. State music? Corporate music? I don't know and it doesn't matter.

Here's an anecdote from The Enabling Instrument: Milton Babbitt and the RCA Synthesizer" a paper by Martin Brody.

When the Mark-I appeared in 1955, it was listed in the RCA Acoustics Laboratory inventory with a proud comparison: The synthesiser was 'second only to the Typhoon rocket simulator as the largest single assembly to come out of the David Sarnoff Research Center'. [Although the Mark-I was built to recreate a peaceful expression of human subjectivity rather than to obliterate a hostile and remote man-machine, its input/output components were as indifferent to the workings of the psyche as an anti-aircraft predictor.As Harry Olson recalled, to test their new machine, Olson and Belar followed Seashore's playbook of analysing past performances. The goal was not to expose the musical mind, but to simulate the sounds of acoustic instruments and human performers with the utmost precision.

I would like to thank Seth Cluett, Anna Meadors, Jace Clayton and Nick Patterson for their help.

#large #RCA #STS Serge synthesizer #Buchla 100 #RCA Mark II #Victor #Computer music center #Seth Cluett #Martin Brody #Milton Babbit #Vladimir Ussachevsky

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Otto Luening & Vladimir Ussachevsky - Tape Recorder Music (1955)

#Otto Luening #Vladimir Ussachevsky #musique concrete #electronic music #tape music #modern music

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Vladimir Ussachevsky: Wireless fantasy (1960)

#vladimir ussachevsky #experimental music #Youtube

[maquina-semiotica]

Vladimir Ussachevsky, "Sonic Contours"

#Vladimir Ussachevsky #Spotify

[occultamusica]

Vladimir Ussachevsky - Wireless Fantasy (1960) (in Electronic And Acoustic Works 1957-1972, 1999)

#occult music #Vladimir Ussachevsky #electronic music #classical #abstract #musique concrète #modern classical #experimental #electroacoustic #1960 #1999 #y

[confield]

PSA

If you're into any of the following bands/artists: Autechre, Ryoji Ikeda, Pan Sonic, alva noto, Bernard Parmegiani, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, TODAY IS THE DAY, Peter Rehberg, Merzbow, Oval, Yasunao Tone, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Hecker, Unwound, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, John Cage, Muslimgauze, Jan Jelinek, Anthony Braxton, Farmers Manual, Daphne Oram, Mira Calix, Einstürzende Neubauten, Eric Dolphy, Karleinz Stockhausen, Maryanne Amacher, Edgar Varèse, Iannis Xenakis, Laurel Halo, Fennesz, General Magic, Gescom, Ramleh, Prurient, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Pauline Oliveros, William Basinski, Luc Ferrari, Matthew Shipp, City of Caterpillar, Kouhei Matsunaga, Sensational, Mike Ink, Coil, Nobukazu Takemura, Halim El-Dabh, Martin Tetrault, Tod Dockstader, Matana Roberts, Chicago Underground Quartet, Microstoria, Vladislav Delay, Sonny Sharrock, Beatrice Dillon, SND, Mark Fell, Mika Vainio, Robin Rimbaud, Darkthrone, Christoph de Babalon, Toshimaru Nakamura, Steve Roden, Lithops, Nisennenmondai, Tackhead, Aaron Dilloway, Henry Flynt, Foehn, Yamantaka Eye, Portraits of Past, Pg99, Maxwell Sterling, Slint, Big Black, Russell Haswell, Sébastien Roux, Loraine James, Surgeon, Terrence Dixon, Underground Resistance, Dopplereffekt, Plastikman, Wolfgang Voigt, Robert Hood, Cecil Taylor, Matmos, Kangding Ray, Hijokaidan, Babyfather, Team Doyobi, Paul Lansky, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Soul Oddity, Kid606, Hugh Le Caine, Actress, Klein, Sven-Åke Johansson, Porter Ricks, Luciano Berio, The Third Eye Foundation, Grischa Lichtenberger, Replikants, Genocide Organ, Joji Yuasa, The Jesus Lizard, African Head Charge, Drive Like Jehu, Peter Brotzmann, Sonic Youth, Jawbox, Chino Amobi, Luke Vibert, James Ferraro, Florian Hecker, Tim Hecker, Eyehategod, Gorgoroth, Basic Channel, Maurizio, Steve Reich, Mouse on Mars, Burial, The Future Sound of London, Dean Blunt, Susumu Yokota, Skream, Benga, Farben, Polvo, Keiji Haino, The Black Dog, LFO, The Bug, SOPHIE, Global Communication, B12, Jlin, Stereolab, Pole, Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Juan Atkins, Wormrot, Oli XL, Napalm Death, Orchid, Bitch Magnet, Codeine, Microstoria, Moss Icon, Frank Bretschneider, Joey Beltram, Jeromes Dream, A Guy Called Gerald or DJ Manny

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#long post #music

[thomasmartinnutt]

Chance Encounters #006

Sarah Rahman, Robert Creeley, Cosmos, Alva Noto & Bryce Dessner, Jana Winderen, Alessandro Bosetti & Annette Krebs, Mathew Herbert and London Contemporary Orchestra feat. Jali Bakary Koneth, Langham Research Centre, David Tudor, Linda Buckley, Laria Ó Lionáird & Crash Ensemble, Benedict Drew, Yara Asmar feat. Majd Chidiac, Lia Kohl, Civilistjävel! feat. Cucina Povera, Flora Yin-Wong, Daniel Bachman, Ernst Karel, Chantal Michelle, Janet Cardiff, Ljerke, Michael Snow, Li Yilei, Gentle Fire, More Eaze, Vladimir Ussachevsky

[dailyalbumrecs]

Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center

Columbia University had an early electronic music studio, with composers such as Milton Babbitt, Otto Luening, and Vladimir Ussachevsky making pieces of fascinating electronic music. This album was released in 1964 and I would love to know how people reacted to this when it was initially released.

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WAMEI + ABYSMO + OCTAVE MAGESCAS + UNNECESSARY ATHLETICS

JEUDI 02.11

Le Non_Jazz WAMEI /jp ABYSMO / fr UNNECESSARY ATHLETICS ar / it OCTAVE MAGESCAS / fr

20:00 portes 20:45 action

P.A.F. 6€

à LES NAUTES 1, Quai des Célestins 75004 M° Sully-Morland

WAMEI /jp osaka Jeune musicien prolifique et très versatile, il est la moitié du duo " psych-drone- pop" Sarry ( avec la chanteuse Fuji Yuki ) et également membre de plusieurs groupes de la région de Kansai dont le groupe psyche/rock Hibushibure, le combo techno/noise Nasca Car ou le groupe post-punk Jacob’s Ladder. Solo, il construit de plus en plus sa musique dans une accumulation de strates de drones saturés, même si - à l'opposé de ce spectre - il excelle à concocter des vignettes électroniques compactes et mystérieuses, des mini-capsules sous forme de pop-ups délétères, comme des mini-bulles de soundtracks éphémères, tantôt lymphatiques tantôt agités, qui peuvent faire penser ( ou pas ) à, pêle-mêle, Conrad Schnitzler, Cosmic Jokers, Mort Garson, Matsuo Ono, Edward Artemiev, Gil Mellé, Coil, classiques d'early electronica ( Herbert Eimert, Otto Luening, Vladimir Ussachevsky... ), Kid Baltan & Tom Dissevelt, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram et autres ciseleurs de la vintage electronica de l'âge d'or du BBC Radiophonic Workshop.  " Avec un style d'expression totalement abstrait basé sur le drone (performance avec son soutenu), ses performances s'intéressent aux « sons qui mènent à d'autres mondes », qui affectent directement les sens de l'auditeur plutôt que sa sensibilité musicale. Le style d'interprétation, qui utilise un minimum de synthétiseurs et de pédales, vise à faire entendre à l'auditeur la musique du plus profond de sa mémoire, et supprime en profondeur les éléments musicaux tels que la mélodie et le rythme, et, à la limite du bruit, détruit la pensée et crée des sons qui agissent sur les profondeurs pures du psychisme et sur les sens qui s'y trouvent. Le groupe joue des sons qui agissent sur les profondeurs pures du psychisme et sur ses sens les plus intimes. " Dans le passé, il a participé à des groupes et unités de divers genres, y compris l'unité que Sarry a formée avec la chanteuse Fuji-Yuki, et a également produit et publié de nombreuses œuvres sur des labels en Europe et dans d'autres pays, ainsi que des tournées en Europe, Australie et Taïwan. Il a également effectué des tournées en Europe, en Australie et à Taiwan et a collaboré avec des musiciens d'autres pays pour produire des œuvres

ABYSMO / fr paris bruxelles Mealbient, hypnagogic dance music

Nonmei9227 + C Folle : duo créant de la musique visqueuse inspirée des parcs à thème, des marécages et états hypnagogiques au travers de synthèses de vocalisation et de patterns flasques.

OCTAVE MAGESCAS / fr paris Parisien de toujours, musicien et chercheur ( Sound Art Museum de Rome, EHESS ), Octave nourrit sa musique de  field recordings, crépitements synthétiques, clicks_+_cuts à la mode de Frankfurt, tout le langage sonore de l'ambigu et du contemplatif post-digital.

Incursions parfois harsh noise, parfois sleek lush ambient, parfois sound art-ish seront ( ou pas ) de mise, qui verra, verra.

UNNECESSARY ATHLETICS ar / it paris +ou-

des sons qui parcourent les quatre coins du tableau comme des pièces d’échecs des jeux d’avance et retours

Et ça sautille, et ça percute!

UA est un duo composé de : Luca Ventimiglia - électronique  + Joaquin Ortega - électronique.

Les deux font par ailleurs partie d'innombrables permutations entre d'innombrables membres du collectif 2035. 

Fly - Mehdi Hercberg aka SHOBOSHOBO

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#dr alimantado #otto luening #vladimir ussachevsky #neu! #peter tosh

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#vladimir ussachevsky #otto luening #1952 #electronic music #music experiments with audiotape #history of electronic music #experimental #piano

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Today’s WCW is Wendy Carlos! An American musician, and composer who is best known for her contributions to electronic music, innovative film scores, and solar eclipse photography.

Wendy Carlos was born in Pawtucket, RI to working-class parents on November 14th, 1939. Her mother played the piano and came from a family of musicians, which led to Carlos beginning piano lessons when she was six years old. By the time Carlos was 10, she had created her first composition, A Trio for Clarinet, Accordion, and Piano. After years of exhibiting a wunderkind-like talent for graphic arts and the sciences, Carlos was awarded a scholarship for her home-built computer at the 1953 Westinghouse Science Fair for high schoolers. In 1962, Carlos graduated from Brown University with a degree in music and physics. Five years later, Carlos obtained an M.A. from Columbia University in music composition; while at Columbia, she offered informal music lessons and even assisted Leonard Bernstein in presenting a night of electronic music selections at the Philharmonic.

During her time at Columbia, Carlos met Robert Moog at the 1964 Audio Engineering Society show. Their partnership would change both of their lives forever when they joined forces with Vladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening. The quartet worked together on campus at first-of-its-kind-in-the-US-facility, the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. While working with some of electronic music’s pioneers and becoming the grandmother of electronic music, Carlos gave advice and technical support in the development of the Moog synthesizer. To improve the musical mechanics of the keyboard, Carlos persuaded Moog to add a touch-sensitive device, still one of the Moog’s most desirable features. 

Shortly after graduation in 1968, Carlos came to prominence with Switched on Bach, an album of music by Johann Sebastian Bach performed on the Moog synth that popularized its use in the 1970s and garnered her three Grammys. The album’s commercial success led to several more original and adapted compositions from Carlos across genres. Following her success as a solo artist, she was invited to compose two Stanley Kubrick scores for A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Shining (1980), as well as the Tron (1982) score for Walt Disney Productions.

Following counseling with famed sexologist Harry Benjamin in the late 60s, Carlos began hormone replacement therapy after finishing her M.A. Eventually her estrogen use necessitated public back-passing (the act of passing as one’s birth gender post-medical transition for safety or convenience) whenever she made television or promotional appearances. Luckily, the commercial success of Switched on Bach helped Carlos undergo sex reassignment surgery in 1972, which allowed her immense relief from the gender dysphoria she had experienced from childhood and lessened the discomfort she felt about being forced to wear fake sideburns and draw on facial hair for media appearances. After surgery, Carlos continued to release albums under her birth name until she came out publicly in a series of interviews that ran in the May 1979 issue of Playboy magazine. 

#wendy carlos #walter carlos #the shining #a clockwork orange #stanley kubrick #vladimir ussachevsky #otto luening #robert moog #moog #moog synthesizer #columbia university #brown university #transgender #wcw #women crush wednesday #trans woman #electronic music #synthesizer #composer #piano #tron

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Vladimir Ussachevsky // "Reverberation"

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Vladimir Ussachevsky, "Sonic Contours" #NowPlaying

#Vladimir Ussachevsky #Spotify

[buttererer]

Vladimir Ussachevsky: Piece for tape recorder (1956)

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