Description
Label:
Dual Planet – DUAL008LP
Format:
Vinyl, LP
Country:
US
Released:
2015
Genre:
Electronic, Non-Music
Style:
Experimental, Abstract
Tracklist
A1 Rhythmic Jungle
A2 Rhythm Alternate
A3 Untitled I
A4 Untitled II
A5 Untitled III
A6 Abstractum
B1 Echovessence
B2 Music For An Imaginary TV Ballet
Notes
A lost collection of home studio tape manipulations and VCS3 synthesizer experiments from the unsung Australian composer Val Stephen. A practising medical anaesthetist turned electronic music innovator, Stephen’s study of tape music originates back as early as the 1950s. Throughout the following decades he created a remarkable personal archive of uncharted electronic compositions and experimental music sketches using a range of resourceful tools and pioneering techniques. With only two of his compositions ever published (Folkways – Electronic Music. 1967) ABSTRACTUM is an amazing look into the previously undocumented world of this silent innovator. A hallucinogenic hybrid of sedated synthesis & primordial Musique Concrete that will appeal to those interested in experimental music such as Basil Kirchin’s Worlds Within Worlds and Pierre Henry’s Le Voyage.
