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This just in from Electronic Musician editor Gino Robair. As many of you know, Pauline Oliveros is the Grandmother of Looping, although only one of her early tape delay pieces has previously been available on record. "I of IV" was one of the first live electronic pieces I ever heard, being on a 1968 Columbia Odyssey LP along with "Come Out" by Steve Reich and "Night Music" by Richard Maxfield. PO was doing many pieces with multiple tape delays in the '60s, and when digital delays became available she bought a pair of Lexicon PCM-42s which she had modified by Gary Hall. She later upped her arsenal to four PCM-42s and four PCM-70s. These days she's using Max/MSP. <http://email.email.primedia.com/cgi-bin15/flo?y=hsz0BdKia0Lm0sV0AD>Pauline Oliveros: <http://email.email.primedia.com/cgi-bin15/flo?y=hsz0BdKia0Lm0sW0AE>Alien Bog/Beautiful Soop (<http://www.pogus.com>Pogus Productions). Alien Bog (1967) and Beautiful Soop (1966) were created during Oliveros's tenure as director of the San Francisco Tape Music Center at Mills College, in Oakland, California, using the first Buchla 100 series modular synthesizer and a tape-delay system of her own design. http://www.pogus.com/21012.htm <http://email.email.primedia.com/cgi-bin15/flo?y=hsz0BdKia0Lm0sV0AD>Pauline Oliveros: Electronic Works (<http://email.email.primedia.com/cgi-bin15/flo?y=hsz0BdKia0Lm0sX0AF>Paradigm Discs) The pieces on this disc also features Oliveros's work with tape delays, this time using sine-wave generators, pink noise, voice, and turntable. http://www.stalk.net/paradigm/ <http://email.email.primedia.com/cgi-bin15/flo?y=hsz0BdKia0Lm0sV0AD>Pauline Oliveros: <http://email.email.primedia.com/cgi-bin15/flo?y=hsz0BdKia0Lm0sY0AG>No Mo (<http://www.pogus.com>Pogus Productions). Three more tape works dating from the mid '60s: Something Else and No Mo were created in 1966 at the Electronic Music Studio University of Toronto; Bog Road was created at Mills College using the Buchla Series 100. http://www.pogus.com/21023.htm The lovely works on these three discs show that Pauline Oliveros's concepts of organized sound and electronic music were way ahead of their time. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz