J.D. Robb
Rhythmania And Other Electronic Musical Compositions
LabelSmithsonian Folkways, Folkways RecordsGenreElectronic
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2024 stock. Released in 1976, Rhythmania and Other Electronic Musical Compositions spotlights the sounds of a specially assembled Moog Synthesizer (a type of analog synthesizer). The variety is impressive: from birdcalls and the sounds of machines in a factory to waltzes. Pieces such as “Cosmic Dance of Shiva” and “Hear the Clock Tick” are “composed of natural sounds recorded through a microphone,” rather than generated electronically like the “Triptych” fugues. This album also highlights electronic instruments as soloists in a genre of music that J.D. Robb says is “capable of expressing a very wide range of ideas and...emotions.”
Liner notes include detailed track notes by J.D. Robb.
Format
Issued in standard black gatefold card sleeve with wrap-around sticker with original album sleeve (front) and tracklist (back). Part of the Smithsonian Folkways Archival series of On Demand CDRs
Release notes
Issued in standard black gatefold card sleeve with wrap-around sticker with original album sleeve (front) and tracklist (back). Part of the Smithsonian Folkways Archival series of On Demand CDRs
| Tryptyque | |||
| 1 | First Fugue | 1:27 | |
| 2 | Second Fugue | 2:00 | |
| 3 | Third Fugue | 1:40 | |
| 4 | Rhythmania | 3:05 | |
| 5 | Cosmic Dance Of Shiva | 5:10 | |
| 6 | Soliloquy | 1:05 | |
| 7 | Factory Sounds | 2:15 | |
| 8 | The Beautiful Blue Danube | 4:50 | |
| 9 | Hear The Clock, Tick | 2:37 | |
| 10 | Chaconne | 3:55 | |
| 11 | Toccata | 2:59 | |
| 12 | Poem Of Summer | 2:02 | |
| 13 | Capricho | 1:30 | |
| Little Suite | |||
| 14 | Lonely Wanderer | 1:35 | |
| 15 | Imaginary Birds | 1:58 | |
| 16 | Little Bells | 1:00 | |
| 17 | Synthi Waltz | 1:50 | |
