High School Pierre Schaeffers
Jack Dangers (Tino Corp, Meat Beat Manifesto) just compiled a pretty great CD of assorted electronic music pieces recorded through the years 1968-84 by high school kids. The cover is culled from an LP that seems to be from the Gloucester (Mass.?) Public School's Electronic Music lab from the 1970's, but it's unfortunately lacking any other info besides the names of the kids doing the pieces, and the titles of the tracks. The disc is only available on Meat Beat's tourstops, but will probably be available in limited form thereafter.
Check out a few:
Randy Kaplan "Emission-Embossment" (MP3)
David Brown "Willy Reverb" (MP3)
Kenneth Ranales "Mind Clash" (MP3)
Beth Bolton/Mag Johnson "Vietnam-Love It Or Leave It" (MP3)
I love this stuff! I took the ranales piece and mixed it with "mom calls 911." it worked great! Just wish I'd had the chance to make some recordings w/ my old high school's ARP Odyssey.
Posted by: wandrew | April 23, 2008 at 03:12 AM