Various

Featuring: Hugh Le Caine, J.D. Robb, Myron Schaeffer, Robert Aitkin, Val Stephen, Victor Grauer, Jean Eichelberger Ivey, Arnold Walter, Harvey Olnick

condition (record/cover): VG (some bubbles producing occasional pops and minimal surface noise, manufacturing defect) / NM 

Insert included.

A Folkways anthology, edited by Moses Asch's team, presenting Canadian and American electronic composers in mono. Side A opens with Hugh Le Caine's Dripsody (1955), the celebrated 105-second piece built entirely from the sound of a single water drop, recorded at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio (UTEMS) which Le Caine had helped found. Then Myron Schaeffer's Dance R4 ÷ 3 (1961), Arnold Walter / Harvey Olnick / Schaeffer's Summer Idyl (the UTEMS founding triumvirate), and Robert Aitken's Noesis.

Side B opens with two short pieces by Val Stephen (Fireworks, The Orgasmic Opus), then J.D. Robb's Collage (the New Mexico composer and folklorist), Jean Eichelberger Ivey's Pinball (Ivey founded the electronic music studio at Peabody Conservatory in 1969) and finally Victor Grauer's six-minute Inferno. The LP is one of the central English-language documents of late-1960s North American tape music and the most accessible single source for Le Caine's Special Purpose Tape Recorder experiments, which had been running at UTEMS since the early fifties.