FLUR 2001 > 2024



Highlights of Vortex

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Smithsonian Folkways CCD

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"This record functions as the 1959 avant-garde score for Vortex, a music/film production shown in the Morrison Planetarium in San Francisco. One of the first multimedia events of its kind, this performance includes tracks that were constructed for playback on a 38 speaker system by several different musicians/engineers. According to the Center of Visual Music, the performance created a "type of immersion environment [that] had never been created before". Artists include Henry Jacobs, Gordon Longfellow, David L. Talcott, and William Loughborough. This electronic music is primarily in the style of Musique Concrete – a genre that features a wide array of sounds recorded to tape and then arranged in a specific order – but more traditional instruments are heard on this recording as well." (Label PR)
David Talcott - Trilogy 5:23
Henry Jacobs - Chan 2:16
Wm. Loughborough - For The Big Horn 2:49
Henry Jacobs - Logos 2:12
Henry Jacobs - Rhythm Study #8 2:16
Gordon Longfellow - Notes On The History Of A World, Part 3 4:11
David Talcott - Loop Number 3 4:01
Henry Jacobs - Electronic Kabuki Mambo 4:47
Gordon Longfellow - 350-2 3:24