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
This Album was recorded by the folks in Mary Johnson's Electronic Music 1972 Class at Gloucester (MA) High School.
Ms. Johnson was a fantastic supporter of people making music in any way they might find do-able. She had no qualms about letting the kids take the Sony Stereo reel-to-reel recorders home with them. Kids learned how to do "sound-on-sound", splice tape and use variable speed recording as components with whatever instruments or "found" objects they might use to create the desired sounds on these recordings.
The kids in that class were from some of the most eclectic backgrounds: Such a fertile field for gathering such creations.
Mary Johnson has passed on, as have some of the students who recorded that album.... This album is testimony to the creative explorations from some great folks in the Gloucester High School class of 1972.
Posted by: Rory | July 04, 2010 at 12:06 PM