Songs and Views of the Magnetic Garden

Songs and Views of the Magnetic Garden
Studio album by Alvin Curran
Released	1975/1993
Genre	Experimental electronic, Minimalism
Label	Catalyst

Songs and Views of the Magnetic Garden (1975/Catalyst 09026-61823-2 1993) is an album "performed, synthesized, recorded, and mixed by Alvin Curran." Liner notes by Tim Page and Alvin Curran.

• "This lush musical landscape, Alvin Curran's first
  bells, gamelans, and sounds of nature—a unique tapestry of sound that eloquently introduces a fanciful and original American composer."^[1]

• "Curran interweaves the sounds of singing, nature, bells, gamelans, and synthesizers into what Page calls 'New Age with brains...he's one composer who can actually organize noise to the point that it becomes music.'"^[3]
• "Hearing his mid-1970s assemblages Songs And Views of the Magnetic Garden or Fiori Chiari Fiori Oscuri is like peering for the first time into Joseph Cornell's boxed collages."^[4]
• "Alvin Curran's 'Songs and Views of the Magnetic Garden' was a simmering stew of
  "found" sounds and minimalism."^[5]

1. From a Room on the Piazza – Wind,
   Mbuti trumpet^[6]
   )
2. Crystal Aires – Voice, ring modulator, glass chimes, water glugger, bees
3. Walked the Way Home – jaw harp, synthesizer, flugelhorn, dogs
4. Gli Scariolanti – Italian folksong sung by Margherita Berietti
5. On My Satin Harp – VCS3 synthesizer,
   kalimba
   , sounds of the sea
6. At Harmony Ranch – Whirling plastic
   peepers
   (frogs), "Guido" the dog

Ananda N° 1 – 1975 – Italy

Ananda was an Italian label created in 1976 by the composers Alvin Curran, Roberto Laneri and Giacinto Scelsi. Each record was completely realized and produced by its authors.

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