condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (light ring and edges wear)

The CRI documentation of new American compositional directions: Irwin Bazelon, the Chicago-born composer whose music combined serial technique with an immediate, visceral energy that separated him from the more ascetic wing of the academic avant-garde; Paul Lansky, Princeton-based composer and theorist whose early computer music - including the speech-synthesis and granular synthesis works he produced at the Bell Laboratories - would later, in one of the stranger arcs of musical influence, become source material sampled by hip-hop and electronic producers in the 1990s, a reception he neither sought nor expected; Raoul Pleskow, whose music engaged with post-serial ideas while retaining a lyrical impulse; Mark Zuckerman; and Lowell Cross, who combined composition with laser and light work, designing the audio-visual systems for concerts by David Tudor. A cross-section of the American academic avant-garde at a moment of genuine stylistic pluralism, before the divides of the 1980s hardened.