John Eaton
Mass / Blind Man's Cry / Concert Music For Solo Clarinet (LP)
FormatLPLabelComposers Recordings, Inc.GenreExperimental
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The central instrument is the Syn-Ket, a small portable polyphonic synthesizer built in 1965 by Paolo Ketoff in Rome, designed for live performance rather than studio tape work. John Eaton, an Indiana University composer who had spent time in Rome on a Prix de Rome and a Fulbright, built much of his work around it. Fewer than a dozen Syn-Kets were ever made (Sun Ra owned one, Stockhausen another).
Mass (1970), commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation, is the centrepiece: three Syn-Kets, a Moog (Jay Williams), Mini-Vox and Syn-Mill (Andrew Jarema), the Japanese soprano Michiko Hirayama (later Giacinto Scelsi's principal vocal interpreter) and the clarinettist William O. Smith, who plays multiphonics and double-stops. John Reeves White conducts. Blind Man's Cry (1968) is a smaller setting. Concert Music for Solo Clarinet closes.
Release notes
Mass (1970) with ensemble of electronic music synthesizers and tape. Recorded in 1970. Blind Man's Cry (1968) Soprano with electronic music synthesizers. Recorded in 1970. Concert Music For Solo Clarinet (1961) recorded in 1971. Recording made possible by a grant from the National Institute-American Academy of Arts and Letters, which gave one of its 1972 composition awards to John Eaton; and a grant from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.
| A1 | Mass | 20:00 | |
| B1 | Blind Man's Cry | 10:45 | |
| B2 | Concert Music For Solo Clarinet | 7:30 |
- John Eaton
- Composed By
- Judith Lerner
- Cover
- DBH
- Lacquer Cut By
- Marc Aubort
- Recorded By (A1)
- Patrick Creagh
- Translated By
