Galen Herod
Galen Herod Word & Musics Recordings 1983-88
Galen Herod is one of the central figures of the American cassette culture synthesist tradition, a Phoenix, Arizona-based electronic composer who spent the years between 1979 and 1982 building a substantial body of solo tape work with handmade equipment, distributing it through Eurock and direct personal networks. Alongside his collaborator Greg Horn in Tone Set, he represented a genuinely singular voice within the American underground: music rooted in abstract electronic experimentation rather …
Modular Electronics 1979 - 1982
** restocked, last copies around ** Galen Herod is one of the pioneers of-american-cassette-culture synthesist-artists and During 1979 and 1982 he produced several outstanding and creative electronic Tape-Releases which he distributed either via Eurock or by himself in the Phoenix-Area. His very early Tape-Works are dominated by abstract, austere, experimental electronics in the vein of Conrad Schnitzler using tape loops and completely homemade synth-equipment: oscillators, filters and seq…
Recordings 1980-1982
Limited edition of 500. Galen Herod is one of the pioneering synthesis artists of American cassette culture. From 1979 to 1982 he produced several outstanding and creative electronic tape releases which he distributed either via Eurock or by himself in the Phoenix, Arizona area. His very early tape works are dominated by abstract, austere, experimental electronics in the vein of Conrad Schnitzler, using tape loops and completely homemade synth-equipment includes oscillators, filters, and …
Recordings 1979-1980
Galen Herod grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and began making electronic music in 1979 with equipment he had no money to buy commercially. His solution was his friend Gary Dukarich, an electronics hobbyist who designed and built oscillators, filters, and sequencers from scratch. Working with these handmade instruments and tape loops in the Phoenix area, Herod produced a series of cassettes that circulated primarily through the distributor Eurock and directly through personal contacts. His early tape …