Pauline Oliveros: Electronic Works CD Track Listing
Pauline Oliveros
Electronic Works
I of IV was made in July 1966, at the University of Toronto\nElectronic Music Studio. It is a real time studio performance\ncomposition (no editing or tape splicing), utilising the techniques\nof amplifying combination tones and tape repetition. The\ncombination tone technique was one which I developed\nin 1965 at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. The equipment\nconsisted of 12 sine tone square wave generators connected\nto an organ keyboard, 2 line amplifiers, mixer, Hammond spring\ntype reverb and 2 stereo tape recorders. 11 generators were\nset to operate above 20,000 Hz and one generator at below\n1 Hz. The keyboard output was routed to the line amplifiers,\nreverb, and then to channel A of recorder 1. The tape was \nthreaded from recorder 1 to recorder 2. Recorder 2 was on\nplayback only. Recorder 2 provided playback repetition\napproximately 8 seconds later. Recorder 1 Channel A was\nrouted to recorder 1 channel B, and recorder 1 channel B to\nrecorder 1 channel A in a double feedback loop. Recorder\n2 channel A was routed to recorder 1 channel A, and recorder\n2 channel B was routed to recorder 1 channel B. The tape\nrepetition contributed timbre and dynamic changes to steady\nstate sounds. The combination tones produced by the 11 \ngenerators and the bias frequencies of the tape recorders\nwere pulse modulated by the sub-audio generator.\n\nBig mother is watching you was also produced at Toronto\nElectronic Music Studio in the summer of 1966. It is another\nexperiment using the techniques I developed whilst in San\nFrancisco. The core of this technique is tape delay and\nsuper heterodyning. This piece utilises a variety of sound\nsources including some pink noise bands and some occasional\nvoice input.\n\nBye bye butterfy is a 2 channel tape composition (with an\nenclosure) made at the San Francisco Tape Music Center in\n1965. It utilises 2 Hewlett-Packard oscillators, 2 line amplifiers\nin cascade, a turntable with record and 2 tape recorders in\na delay setup. The composer arranged the equipment, tuned\nthe oscillators, and played through the compisition in real\ntime.\n\nParadigm Discs 1997\nPD 04\n\nDNA/Valis
This misc cd contains 3 tracks and runs 67min 18sec.
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- Pauline Oliveros - I of IV (1966) (25:29)
- Pauline Oliveros - big mother is watching you (1966) (33:45)
- Pauline Oliveros - bye bye butterfly (1965) (08:01)
