condition (record/cover): VG+ (minimal surface noise) / VG+ (hand-written dedication inside)

Gatefold sleeve. Insert included. | A rare and unusual artifact: an educational LP conceived as an introduction to the material and aesthetics of electronic music, issued by Nordiska Musikförlaget for a Scandinavian audience at a moment when the very nature and possibilities of the medium were still being actively argued. Bent Lorentzen (1935-2018) was among the earliest pioneers of Danish electronic music - composing The Bottomless Pit for the Nordic Music Days in Oslo in 1972, developing works at the Stockholm electronic music studio in the late 1960s, and producing a series of educational recordings that tried to bring the new music to audiences beyond the specialist few.

This LP belongs to that pedagogical strand of his practice, and the educational impulse here is inseparable from the compositional one: Lorentzen's understanding of electronic music was never abstract or academic - it was rooted in the conviction that sound, in all its materiality and sensory immediacy, was the primary unit of musical meaning. The record accordingly functions both as demonstration and as argument: the material of electronic music is not merely its technical substrate but its expressive substance. A document of the Nordic avant-garde in its moment of self-definition, and in its combination of instructional purpose and compositional seriousness, something that exists almost nowhere else in the literature. Nordiska Musikförlaget, LPWH 3051.