Fred Weinberg

Reissue of an obscure electronic music album, originally released in 1968, with bonus tracks. another historic event for fans of experimental exotica: Martin Denny, Bruce Haack, Pierre Henry, Dick Hyman, Perrey & Kingsley, etc., described as "a synthetic sound revolution with great songs, like bruce haack with a psychedelic touch." from the lp's original liner notes: "the weinberg method of non-synthetic electronic rock (or the electronic rock method of non-synthetic weinberg) is a revolution in sound (or sound in revolution). to be more precise, the w.m.n.s.e.r., as it is affectionately known, is a way of taking the sounds of common musical instruments (twang), sounds of every day life (beep-beep), sounds of the human body (hic-cup) and altering them electronically to create a totally new concept of recording. In the hands of Mr. Weinberg, the human heart-beat becomes a bass drum, an ambulance siren becomes a slide trombone and the sound of a secretary filing her nails becomes a 24 piece string section. Undoubtedly, Fred Weinberg is the first man in history to orchestrate an alka-seltzer fizzing, a computer-card computing and a toilet flushing. when Mr. Weinberg leads his orchestra, the whole world is in the pit. one of his earliest experiments in sound was the time he recorded an ant walking on sand. unfortunately, the experiment was cut-short by a myopic ice-cream vendor. of course, this is not to say that fred weinberg was the first man ever to discover that the sounds of every day life can be more harmonious than the sounds of traditional music. For instance, George Bernhard shaw once said, 'nothing soothes me more, after a long and maddening day of pianoforte recitals, than to sit and have my teeth drilled.' (shaw? didn't he used to be the lead singer with the del-vikings?) to sum up, then, the electronic weinberg rock of non-synthetic method is simply an assortment of natural sounds that are slowed-down, speeded-up, turned upside-down and inside-out. sound like sound never sounded before." (label info)