Randall McClellan, Joel Chadabe
Distant Voices / Ideas Of Movement At Bolton Landing (LP)
FormatLPLabelOpus OneGenreExperimental
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Two pieces from 1971, both marked "electronically derived sounds" on the labels. Joel Chadabe's Ideas of Movement at Bolton Landing came out of his work at SUNY Albany, where he had helped design one of the largest Moog systems of the period, and it takes its name from a hamlet on Lake George. It sounds like weather systems seen from above: slow pulses, sequenced figures drifting in and out of phase, nothing forced. Randall McClellan's Distant Voices fills the second side with 25 minutes of more spectral, inward material, close in spirit to the meditative wing of American electronic music.
Opus One was the one-man label of composer Max Schubel, who treated every record as an object: the covers are printed in fluorescent inks, with hidden colours and text that appear under black light. This is number 17 in the series, issued in 1974, with notes by both composers and the original Opus One insert.
Release notes
Both works from 1971. "Electronically Derived Sounds" is specified on both labels. Includes Opus One insert. Track timings not listed on the cover or label but timed electronically and added. The Opus One record label utilized fluorescent ink printings on all their record covers. Hidden colors in the artwork and text on both the front and back LP covers are revealed when viewed under a black light. Label creator/owner Max Schubel designed each Opus One record as an individual work of art in…
| A | Ideas Of Movement At Bolton Landing | 16:00 | |
| B | Distant Voices | 25:06 |
- Randall McClellan
- Liner Notes
- Joel Chadabe
- Liner Notes
