Night Music (1967)

Ti­tel der Com­pi­la­ti­on: New Sounds in Electronic Music
Ti­tel: Richard Maxfield: Night Music (Track 01)
Her­aus­ge­ber: Music of our Time, Odyssey/CBS, New York
Editor: David Behrman
Da­tum: 1967
Me­di­um: re­cord 30 cm

 

La Monte Young, avantgardistischer Musiker und Kooperationpartner Richard Maxfields über dessen Arbeitsweise bei der Komposition elektronischer Musik:

 

"Much of Maxfield's tape music was created through a technique which included pre-recording and electronically manipulating sound sources of various duration, then cutting lengths of tape containing these sounds and putting them in large glass mixing bowls. He would randomly draw pieces of tape from the bowls and splice them together placing blank tape of various durations between each of the pre-recorded sounds. What was interesting was that although this was theoretically a Cageian aleatorical approach, Maxfield reserved the right to put back any sounds he did not like and continue to draw new sounds until he found the piece sounding in a way that inspired him. Sometimes several of these reels of spliced together sounds and silences, called inter-masters, were played simultaneously on separate tape decks in concert or mixed together to form a new stereo or mono original master. His compositions were extremely well-crafted, using a sparse, static form and exhibiting a wry humor and unusual sophistication."