Soundviews: Sources (1990)

Soundviews: Sources (What Next? WN001, 90 minutes cassette only)
‘A survey of extra-musical sound work, ca. late 1980s, from a series of radio programs produced by Jeffrey Bartone. Brief excerpts of sound sculpture, environmental sound, installations, new instruments, text, interviews, etc.’ (source)

a/
01 Annea Lockwood ‘A sound map of the Hudson river’ (2:13)
02 Mary & Bill Buchen ‘Harmonic Compass’ (1:32)
03 Stephan Von Huene ‘Totem Tone #2’ (1:07)
04 Karen McPherson ‘A pond at dusk’ (2:03)
05 Julius ‘Music in the air’ (2:11)
06 Hildegard Westerkamp Interview (1:20)
07 Hildegard Westerkamp ‘A walk through the city’ (3:30)
08 Andrej Zdravic ‘Cicadas ‘Head’ dance’ (2:32)
09 Bill Fontana ‘Landscape sculpture with foghorns’ (2:21)
10 Richard Lerman Interview (1:13)
11 Richard Lerman ‘Brass screen and bronze screen’ (2:35)
12 Brigitta Bertoia Interview (1:13)
13 Harry Bertoia ‘Energizing’ (2:33)
14 Jim Pomeroy ‘Mozart’s moog’ (2:04)
15 Doug Hollis Interview (1:33)
16 Doug Hollis ‘A sound garden’ (2:29)
17 Dr. Frederick Scarf ‘Voyager II: Uranus fly by’ (1:02)
18 David Behrman & George Lewis ‘Installation for Parc de La Villette’ (2:25)
19 Snapshot ‘Evening sounds in Albion, Michigan’ (2:29)
20 Gordon Monahan ‘Speaker swinging’ (3:03)
21 Charlemagne Palestine ‘Carillon concert’ (4:00)
22 KAOS jingle (0:24)

b/
01 Bernard Bashet, Michel Deneuve & Alain Dumont ‘Extrait d’Resurgence’ (2:09)
02 Paul Panhuysen & Johan Goedhart ‘Jan Huygen I’ (1:17)
03 Liz Phillips Interview (1:17)
04 Liz Phillips ‘Windspun for Minneapolis’ (1:57)
05 Leif Brush ‘Teleconstructs III’ (2:26)
06 Ron Konzak ‘Interview’ (1:05)
07 Ron Konzak ‘Giant Puget Sound Windharp’ (2:09)
08 Bart Hopkins ‘Disorderly Tumbling forth’ (1:42)
09 Susan Stone ‘House with a view’ (3:23)
10 Jeffrey Bartone ‘Sky Concert’ (2:31)
11 Ellen Fullman ‘Immigration’ (1:45)
12 Pauline Oliveros, Linda Montano, Tom Jare ‘No more fear’ (2:17)
13 Carl Stone ‘Kuk II Kwan’ (3:13)
14 John Cage Interview (2:25)
15 Robert Rutman ‘Something to reflect the misery of our world…’ (2:29)
16 Ellen Zweig ‘She travelled the landscape’ (1:15)
17 Peter Richards ‘Wave Organ’ (2:07)
18 Paul DeMarinis & David Behrman ‘Sound Fountain’ (2:42)
19 Annea Lockwood ‘Interview’ (1:53)
20 Alvin Curran ‘Maritime Rites’ (2:47)
21 Tony Schwartz ‘Factory Whistle Carols’ (1:35)

A perfect introduction to the world of sound ecology as seen from the US. All today’s big names are here, mostly with excerpts from longer works now fully documented on CD, but hardly available at the time. A few names, though, would be hard to track down on CD as of today: Mary & Bill Buchen, Stephan Von Huene, Karen McPherson, Andrej Zdravic, Doug Hollis, Liz Philips, Leif Brush, Ron Konzak, Ellen Zweig, Peter Richards, Tony Schwartz. Furthermore, I assume the Pauline Oliveiros, Ellen Fullman, David Behrman and Paul Panhuysen tracks are unavailable elsewhere.

This sampler is all very ‘west coast’ sounding: spacey, open to the elements, involving wind and sea, open to exotic cultures, building instruments and processing sound through natural elements.

A 90mn k7 squeezed into a 90Mb file, complete with 42 pages color booklet scanned in hi res PDF document.