condition (record/cover): VG+ (some surface noise) / VG+ (creases near edges and general wear)

Wayne Siegel, the American composer born in Los Angeles in 1953 who relocated to Denmark in the mid-1970s and became a central figure in Scandinavian electroacoustic and contemporary music, is documented here in an early phase of his development on the Danish label Paula. Siegel later founded the Danish Composers' Society's computer music initiative and directed the DIEM electroacoustic music studio in Aarhus, building a career that positioned him squarely within European institutions while retaining the influence of his American experimental formation. These early works for string quartet and electronics show a composer finding his footing between two musical cultures - the post-serial American university idiom and the more socially embedded Scandinavian new music scene he was beginning to inhabit. A rare document of a transitional moment in the career of a composer whose mature work has been consistently overlooked outside the Nordic countries.