Columbia–Princeton Electronic Music Center (album)
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Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center was an album of electronic music released in 1964. It was the recording of a concert performed at the McMillin Theater (later renamed the Miller Theater) at Columbia University on May 9 and 10, 1961. The stereo version was MS 6566 and the monophonic version was ML 5966. There was a sequel released in 1998 on the New World label titled Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961–1973. Bülent Arel is the only artist who appears on both albums.
The Arel composition is completely electronic, with articulated signals over a continuous background texture.
RCA Synthesizer of the Columbia-Princeton Computer Music Center. Davidovsky created a work manipulating sine wave, square wave, and white noise
generators. Luening's composition combines solo violin with RCA Synthesizer sound followed by tape manipulation.
Track listing
Side one
- Bülent Arel: Stereo Electronic Music No. 1 – 10:28
- Halim El-Dabh: Leiyla and the Poet – 5:20
- Vladimir Ussachevsky: Creation—Prologue – 8:09
Side two
- Milton Babbitt: Composition for Synthesizer – 10:36
- Mario Davidovsky: Electronic Study No. 1 – 5:50
- Otto Luening: Gargoyles – 9:21
References
- Columbia–Princeton Electronic Music Center at AllMusic. Retrieved 01:43, 2 December 2020 (UTC).