This is Internet Archive Avant Garde Project installment agp124 "US Electronic Music V: Bulent Arel, Mel Powell."
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AGP124 continues our series of electronic compositions from the USA with works by two composers: Bulent Arel and Mel Powell. Arel was born and raised in Turkey before coming to the US to work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Mel Powell was Director of the Electronic Music Studio at Yale University. The works by Arel were gathered from various LPs, including one work from the Columbia LP featured in last week's installment. Arel's tonal palette is (by design, I think) rather limited, but he achieves some interesting rhythmic effects in his electronic works. The first piece by Powell in this installment was a favorite of mine in high school--showing me how much more bizarre electronic music could be than the psychedelic music that I listened to much of the time. The second and fourth pieces by Powell are acoustic works.
The LPs transcribed for this installment are all in reasonably good condition, but the combination of pressing noise characteristic of so many American releases and the hiss characteristic of much early electronic music does increase the ambient noise level in many tracks. The installment includes a PDF file with scans of the liner notes from all of the LPs in this installment as well as AGP123.
To download AGP124 files, right-click on each of the following links and select SAVE LINK AS.
23 – Arel, Electronic Music No1
24 – Arel, Stereo Electronic Music No125 – Arel, Mimiana I Flux26 – Arel, Mimiana II
27 – Arel, Mimiana III28 – Powell, Events
29 – Powell, Improvisation
30 – Powell, Second Electronic Setting
31 – Powell, Two Prayer Settings
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