Label: Creel Pone

デジタルミュージックの最先端を担った80年代初頭の2つのコレクション音源纏めたCreel Pone編集版。Morton Subotnick、Jean-Claude Risset、Mesias Maiguashcaらが参加、エデュケーション作品として1983年にフランスの機関IRCAMより発表されたV.A[Ircam: Un Portrait]と、1984年にInternational Business Machines(IBM)がリリースしたアートブック付きLP[Computer-Musik]を収録、コンピューター音楽の創作に関する新たな方法を提示した重要物件。





brilliant compendium pairing two early-80s collections at the forefront of Digital Music: the 1983 "IRCAM Un Portrait" set & the 1984 "Computer-Musik" Art Book/Folio/LP issued by none other than International Business Machines (IBM).

Plenty of C.P.-adjacent folks herein from Jean-Claude Risset & Mesias Maiguashca on the former to Klaus Ager, Horacio Vaggione, James Dashow, & Klarenz Barlow (R.I.P.; a wonderful person & incredible thinker) on the latter. Great to have these 2x "Mass-Market" tell-alls back in the fray, as they do a bang-up job of disambiguating the Militarily-Industrial tenets of the former from the coffee-table blankness of the latter, all while presenting a mix of "familiar" (see below) & "alien" concepts of how computers can be taught to create sound/music.

PS: Fret not at Klaus Prünster & Serge Blenner's opening remarks on the latter; lord knows what the P.T.B. @ I.B.M. were thinking there, but from the Klaus Ager -forward the set opens up into a wonderful realm of Digital-Music thought.

PPS. Great to see the tragically under-documented technician/composer David Wessel's name so prominently across the IRCAM "Demonstration Reels" at the onset; one of those "in the right place at the right time" folks whose research & assistance landed at a series of impeccable moments - on George Lewis' "Voyager", Trevor Wishart's "On Sonic Art", V.10 of Wergo's "Computer Music Currents", and a ton of AACM-adjacent sessions recorded at CNMAT in the 90s..