LP, Folkways, 1959
"This record functions as the 1959 avant-garde score for Vortex,
a music/film production shown in the Morrison Planetarium in
San Francisco. One of the first multimedia events of its kind,
performance includes tracks that were constructed for playback
on a 38 speaker system by several different musicians/engineers.
According to the Center of Visual Music, the performance created a
"type of immersion environment [that] had never been created before".
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Judging from the above, this Vortex is so powerful, it even swallows up comments!
First and last tracks are just astounding, especially given the fact this is 1959 - both have a very contemporary feel about them - I guess it's yet another example of the future catching up with the p...a...s....t....
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