VA - Computer Music From Colgate + (2023)
VA - Computer Music From Colgate + (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 482 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 278 MB
1:53:34 | Electronic, Classical, Contemporary, Experimental | Label: Creel Pone
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 482 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 278 MB
1:53:34 | Electronic, Classical, Contemporary, Experimental | Label: Creel Pone
January 2023; much like the sleeper-hit "New Directions In Music; Significant Contemporary Works For The Computer" ([CP 199.08 CD]; exactly 10 "Dots" back) this regional collection of "Academic" Digital Music research, centered around the studio at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY (just southeast of Syracuse) was issued a pair of LPs on Composer Dexter Morrill's Private "Redwood Records" imprint. What makes the studio especially interesting is that; unlike, say, MIT's CM research on largely Music-360-adjacent systems, Colgate's studio is centerpieced by a DCC (Digital Computer Corporation) PDP-10 which was kitted out with a "Four channel digital to analog converter designed and built by Joseph Zingeim."
The PDP-10 itself is a fascinating thing; notoriously used to lay the foundation of the ARPANET, its use in Art & Design in academic settings at larger institutions (such as the MIT AI-lab, Stanford's SAIL, Harvard's Aiken Computation Laboratory, etc.) is widely known, but as a platform for music it's largely undocumented (outside of, say, Laurie Barram's whole temporally-adjacent "Music Kludge" setup). The two compilations in question, featuring works from 1976-1979 by Composers Morrill, Bruce Pennycook, Timothy Sullivan, Frank Bennett, Robert Boyer, & Wesley Fuller, make a great argument for the whole DECsystem-10 platform, each starting from relative scratch w/r/t the basic frameworks and software/algorithms needed to yield such exquisite music.
In addition to the two 1980/81 LPs, this set includes the entirety of a Redwood Cassette of Morrill's Music (issued as "Computer Music Vol 2" ; to my knowledge there was never an early-mid-80s tape of Vol 1, although I'm prepared to be pleasantly surprised!) with three additional pieces made in 1975 & 1982, respectively. Anyone with a high tolerance / low resistance for early, blocky mainframe Computer Music will instantly see the appeal of the proceedings herein.
Tracklist
CD1
01. Six Dark Questions (14:18)
02. If Carillons Grew Wings (4:21)
03. Numbers, Names (12:44)
04. Illusions 1 (7:17)
05. Fantasy Quintet for Piano and Computer - I. Ringing (6:45)
06. Fantasy Quintet for Piano and Computer - II. Our Heart's Delight (3:26)
07. Fantasy Quintet for Piano and Computer - III. Ragtime (3:40)
08. NO - for Chamber Chorus & Tape (6:28)
CD2
01. Time Into Pieces [for Piano and Computer] (9:10)
02. Luckystone [for Clarinet and Computer] (8:31)
03. Woodwind Quintet (17:16)
04. Studies (8:44)
05. TARR (10:54)
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Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
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Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
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Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
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4 | 31:23.10 | 7:16.53 | 141235 | 173987
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Exact Audio Copy V1.5 from 20. February 2020
EAC extraction logfile from 22. April 2023, 21:23
Various Artists / Computer Music From Colgate +
Used drive : TS8XDVDSTRANSCEND Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%
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1 | 0:00.00 | 9:09.59 | 0 | 41233
2 | 9:09.59 | 8:30.51 | 41234 | 79534
3 | 17:40.35 | 17:16.17 | 79535 | 157251
4 | 34:56.52 | 8:43.65 | 157252 | 196541
5 | 43:40.42 | 10:53.58 | 196542 | 245574
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