April 17, 2008
High School Pierre Schaeffers
Jack Dangers (Tino Corp, Meat Beat Manifesto) just compiled a pretty great CD of assorted electronic music pieces recorded through the years 1968-84 by high school kids. The cover is culled from an LP that seems to be from the Gloucester (Mass.?) Public School's Electronic Music lab from the 1970's, but it's unfortunately lacking any other info besides the names of the kids doing the pieces, and the titles of the tracks. The disc is only available on Meat Beat's tourstops, but will probably be available in limited form thereafter. Check out a few:
Randy Kaplan
"Emission-Embossment" (MP3)
David Brown
"Willy Reverb" (MP3)
Kenneth Ranales
"Mind Clash" (MP3)
Beth Bolton/Mag Johnson
"Vietnam-Love It Or Leave It" (MP3)
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/mp3s/index.html