A colloboration with Pauline Oliveros and David Tudor, the three compositions on this Lovely Music recording feature the bandoneon, a polyphonic, metal-reed instrument of the concertina family. Mesa, originally commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, is performed here by David Tudor, bandoneon, with Gordon Mumma, cybersonic console. Pontpoint utilizes the bandoneon and a bowed psaltery, a multi-stringed zither, the sounds of both instruments modified with "cybersonic" procedures developed by the composer. Fwyyn, a bandoneon duo by Oliveros and Mumma, is the only work on the recording in which the natural acoustical sound of the instrument is heard. (1986)
A limited edition of 197 numbered cassettes. Echosynodiae is a revised version of music for the modern dance ECHO and is abundant with cyclic and reflective patterns. Truro Synodicle was composed as the soundtrack for Milton Cohen's film Love in Truro. The music uses aural spatial procedures that are similar to the devices of visual space employed in the film.
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Co-founder of the Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music and the now historic ONCE Festivals of Contemporary Music (from 1966 to 1974), Mumma was, with John Cage and David Tudor, one of the three composer-musicians associated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and for which he composed four commissioned works. With Robert Ashley, David Behrman and Alvin Lucier, he was part of the Sonic Arts Union - a pioneering live-electronic music ensemble. Mumma has made concert tours and recordings in North and South America, Europe, and Japan.
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