Pioneers of Digital Music

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In 1950, the Columbia College Music Division requisitioned a tape recorder to make use of in instructing and for recording concert events. In 1951, the primary tape recorder arrived, an Ampex 400, and Vladimir Ussachevsky, then a junior school member, was assigned a job that nobody else wished: the care of the tape recorder. This job was to have essential penalties for Ussachevsky and the medium he developed. Digital music was born. Over the subsequent ten years, Ussachevsky and his collaborators established the Columbia-Princeton Digital Music Heart, which Ussachevsky directed for twenty years. It was the primary massive digital music middle in america, due to the path-breaking help of the Rockefeller Basis and encouragement from two of the nation’s main universities. The Heart turned one of many best-known and most prolific sources of digital music on the earth. All the music on this historic reissue (initially launched on CRI CD 611) is the results of the pioneering work of the Heart and its composers. The visitor composers and Columbia-associated composers who’ve produced items on the Heart embody Bülent Arel, Luciano Berio, Mario Davidovsky, Jacob Druckman, Arthur Kreiger, Daria Semegen, Pril Smiley, and Edgard Varèse. Ussachevsky’s personal college students on the Heart included Jon Appleton, Wendy Carlos, Charles Dodge, Robert Moog, Alice Shields, Harvey Sollberger, and Charles Wuorinen. Of the seven composers most carefully related to the Heart from its early years, six are current on this disc.