Lukas Foss, Lejaren Hiller, Elliott Schwartz

condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (general wear)

An unusual conjunction on Deutsche Grammophon - the German label whose willingness to document American experimental music in the late 1960s was one of the more surprising institutional gestures of the era. Lukas Foss's Paradigm, Lejaren Hiller's Algorithms I (in two versions), and Elliott Schwartz's Signals are brought together in a programme that explores, in different ways, the relationship between compositional process and musical result. Hiller's Algorithms continues his investigation into computer-assisted composition; Foss's Paradigm applies a different kind of systematic thinking; Schwartz's Signals explores performer interaction and open form. A document of the American compositional avant-garde at the height of its institutional confidence, on a label that would not have touched this music a decade earlier.