Luciano Berio, Jacob Druckman, Ilhan Mimaroglu

condition (record/cover): NM / EX+

The third volume in Turnabout's Electronic Music budget series and one of the most widely circulated documents of mid-sixties tape composition in America. Side A opens with Berio's Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) (1958), the eight-minute electronic processing of Cathy Berberian reading the Sirens chapter from James Joyce's Ulysses, realised at the Studio di Fonologia in Milan. Side A closes with Druckman's Animus I (1966) for trombone and tape, with André Smith as the live trombonist, composed at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.

Side B belongs entirely to Mimaroglu: Piano Music for Performer and Composer (1967) with George Flynn at the keyboard against tape, followed by Six Preludes for Magnetic Tape (Preludes I, II, XI, IX, VI and XII), with Prelude XII featuring the voice of Güngör Bozkurt reading a poem by Orhan Veli Kanık. All three composers had worked or were working at Columbia-Princeton; the LP captures the moment when the academic east-coast tape vocabulary had matured into a distinctive American school. Original turquoise-and-silver Turnabout labels.