Label: York Electronic Studios

デッドストックLPを入荷!!今尚現役で先鋭的な作曲活動を続ける英重鎮電子音楽家/コンポーザーTrevor Wishart。オリジナルは1979年に氏の3rdアルバムとしてYork Electronic Studiosよりリリースされた初期名盤[Beach Singularity & Menagerie]のオリジナル盤。サイドAの[Beach Singularity]は1977年の夏に浜辺で行ったアヴァン集団録音を元ネタにしたもので、ポータブル・ステレオシステムから放送されるテープ音楽や電子機器との絡みがヤカマシイ騒音コラージュ。サイドB[Menagerie]は奇怪なサウンドオブジェを作りそのイメージサウンドとして1974年に記録したもので、まさにこの人物らしいストレンジな音塊が転げ回る激シブの実験記録。インサート付き。



Beach Singularity was performed on the beaches at Morecambe, Cleveleys, St Anne's & Southport in the summer of 1977. Beach Singularity is an excerpt from a day long happening in which the composer performed with an ensemble that featured saxophonist Lyn Dobson avant-tuba player Melvyn Poore, vocalist Poppy Holden and clarinet improviser Robin Coombes. This performance was designed somewhat like a social intervention, where the musicians performed in conjunction with tape-music and electronics broadcast from small portable stereo systems scattered along the English sea-side.

Menagerie began life in 1974 when Trevor Wishart asked a number of well known British performance artistis to build small assemblages for an exhibition in which each object would be accompanied by appropriate taped sounds. The exhibition, consisting of eleven assemblages, was first prepared for the Birmingham Arts Lab and presented there in January 1975. The accompanying tapes were all made at The University of York Electronic Music Studio by Trevor Wishart.