Harold Budd The Oak Of The Golden Dreams Rarity
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This CD is a dual reissue of Harold Budd's The Oak of the Golden Dreams and Richard Maxfield's Electronic Music. The album presents complex, haunting, and evocative electronic soundscapes. In these examples of musique concrete occurs the odd coincidence of jazz motifs, Korean folk music, spoken word, and more.
The ebb and flow of tape loops present an aural kaleidoscope, exciting to the ear, in Maxfield's pieces. Vardex Thread Mill Program Generator. Maxfield's works date six to ten years prior to Budd's 1969 and 1970 creations. More minimalist, Budd's two, lengthy (18:44 and 19:46) pieces feature ambient tone coloring out of a electric organ-like Buchla Box.
Harold Budd in Japan (photo: Masao Nakagami) Background information Birth name Harold Montgomory Budd Born ( 1936-05-24) May 24, 1936 (age 81) Los Angeles, California, U.S. Genres,,, Occupation(s) Musician, composer, poet, professor Instruments Piano, keyboards, guitar Years active 1962–present Labels Opal, Land,,,,,, 4AD Harold Montgomory Budd (born May 24, 1936) is an American composer and poet. He was born in Los Angeles and raised in the. He has developed a style of playing piano he terms 'soft pedal'.
Contents • • • • • • Education and academic career [ ] Budd's career as a composer began in 1962. In the following years, he gained a notable reputation in the local avant-garde community. In 1966, he graduated from the (having studied under ) with a degree in musical composition. As he progressed, his compositions became increasingly. Among his more experimental works were two pieces, 'Coeur d'Orr' and 'The Oak of the Golden Dreams'. After composing a long-form solo titled 'Lirio', he felt he had reached the limits of his experiments in minimalism and the avant-garde. He retired temporarily from composition in 1970 and began a teaching career at the.
'The road from my first colored graph piece in 1962 to my renunciation of composing in 1970 to my resurfacing as a composer in 1972 was a process of trying out an idea and when it was obviously successful abandoning it. The early graph piece was followed by the Rothko orchestra work, the pieces for Source Magazine, the -derived chamber works, the pieces typed out or written in, the out-and-out conceptual works among other things, and the model drone works (which include the sax and organ 'Coeur d'Orr' and 'The Oak of the Golden Dreams', the latter based on the ' scale which scale I used again 18 years later on 'The Real Dream of Sails'). 'In 1970 with the 'Candy-Apple Revision' (unspecified D-flat major) and 'Lirio' (solo gong 'for a long duration') I realized I had minimalized myself out of a career.