Editorial Reviews This recording combines the art of music, the engineering of electronics, and the inspiration of biology. In it, David Tudor orchestrates electronic sound in ways analogous to our biological bodies' orchestration of consciousness. The performance originates from a neural-network synthesizer conceived and built especially for Tudor. He surrounds this synthesizer with his own unique collection of electronic devices, and in the recording on this CD made for headphone playback, he uses a new binaural technique for translating sound into out-of-head localizations in which sound seems to originate from specific, changing points within a space around the listener.
Gann, Consumer Guide, The Village Voice
"Tudor is a seminal historical figure, first as an avant-garde pianist without peer, then as a pioneer inspiring a generation of live-electronics composers, and this two-disc set provides some way overdue documentation. That said, the charm of his music, to my ears, is hearing him in person, watching him elicit a stream of chirrupy, blurpy noise transformations from a table full of circuitry without getting a single visual clue as to how he's doing it. This set of four half-hour pieces issues from a neural-network synthesizer developed for Tudor by Forrest Warthman, based on a chip that 'emulates neuron cells in our brains and can process many analog signals in parallel.' The reiterative whistles and peeps that result, evocative of jungle fauna, seem primitive but honest in these digital days, translating Cage's chance methods into meditative gradual processes."
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Performed by David Tudor; produced and recorded by David Tudor and John D.S. Adams. Binaural and stereo mixes on 2 CDs.
Neural Syntheses 6-9, Music, David Tudor, Avant-Garde, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Orchestral & Symphonic, Process-Generated
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Neural Syntheses 6-9
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ASIN: B00000IO9O Release Date: 1996-06-20 |
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Album Description
Performed by David Tudor; produced and recorded by David Tudor and John D.S. Adams. Binaural and stereo mixes on 2 CDs.This recording combines the art of music, the engineering of electronics, and the inspiration of biology. In it, David Tudor orchestrates electronic sound in ways analogous to our biological bodies' orchestration of consciousness. The performance originates from a neural-network synthesizer conceived and built especially for Tudor. He surrounds this synthesizer with his own unique collection of electronic devices, and in the recording on this CD made for headphone playback, he uses a new binaural technique for translating sound into out-of-head localizations in which sound seems to originate from specific, changing points within a space around the listener.
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