Reading Assignment - Week 5
- Due Feb 10, 2015 by 11:59pm
- Points 10
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Vladimir Ussachevsky was a faculty member in Music at Columbia University starting in 1947 and was a founder of their very influential electronic music studio there. He was also a visiting faculty member at our University of Utah in the late 1970's. I was an undergraduate music major at the time, and took a class in Electronic and Tape Music from Ussachevsky. He was a very polite and formal man, and we had a great time messing with analog synthesizes and splicing audio tape into compositions. I still have a tape from that class, but I have no source of 1" wide reel to reel tape player to play it on any more.
This is an essay that Ussachevsky wrote for the Julliard Review - the journal of the Julliard School of Music - in 1959. In it he describes how he thinks about "tape music."
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