David Tudor

condition (record/cover): NM / EX - Gatefold sleeve with original innersleeve.

By the time David Tudor made Microphone, he had already spent fifteen years as the most indispensable performer of the postwar avant-garde - the pianist who gave first performances of works by Cage, Feldman, Brown, Bussotti, and Stockhausen, the musician for whom much of the most demanding repertoire of the era was written. Then, in the mid-1960s, he stopped performing on the piano entirely and turned toward electronic composition.

Microphone belongs to this new chapter: feedback systems, live electronics, the instrument no longer an object to be played but a field of electromagnetic relations to be inhabited. Issued by Cramps Records, the Italian label that documented some of the most adventurous music of the era, it remains one of the essential documents of Tudor's compositional life.