Premiere of classic electro-acoustic composition on Resonance FM
 

This Wednesday’s Clear Spot 08:00 - 09:00pm (Feb 20th) marks the radio premiere of Trevor Wishart’s Machine. As a composition Machine was completed in 1971, though it wasn’t available as a commercial recording until 1973, coming out shortly after Wisharts’ whimsical fantasia Journey Into Space. Machine can be considered the first major electroacoustic composition by Trevor Wishart. Machine was composed at York University with the assistance of students and published as 3 slices of vinyl in the box set, Electronic Music From York. Machine consists of collaged spoken text and improvised choral work based on the sounds and timbres of industrial noises interpolated with concrete sounds and abstract electronic tones and timbres. Machine is 60 minutes in duration and this Clear Spot marks it debut on British radio, some 37 years after its realisation. Machine is soon to be available on the excellent British experimental/avant-garde label Paradigm discs.
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