Sold Date: March 16, 2016
Start Date: March 9, 2016
Final Price: $28.89 (USD)
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HENRY JACOBS (uncredited on label or cover) HIGHLIGHTS OF VORTEX RARE original yellow label 1959 FOLKWAYS FSS 6301 12" stereo LP in very good plus condition
High gloss but some marks to the disc; front cover is nice, except for an upside-down "JB"(bottom right) and a bit of smudging; some wear to back cover and spine; ca. 1 1/2" seam split top right (at slot) and ca. 3" bottom right (at slot); no booklet. Plays with some background noise, but nothing too distracting.

Sought-after original LP of electronic music from the legendary multimedia theater happenings which took place at the Morrison Planetarium in San Francisco during the late 1950s. Vortex was a series of events founded by sound artist/experimental DJ Henry Jacobs and filmmaker Jordan Belson in association with Berkeley radio station KPFA and the California Academy of Sciences, presenting "a new form of theatre based on the combination of electronics, optics and architecture." Its soundtrack consisted of musique concrete made by Jacobs along with a host of obscure local composers, ethnic field recordings, and avant-garde works by composers such as Toru Takemitsu, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Luciano Berio, while a room-filling light show entranced the audience, and 40 speakers rotated around them creating "a whirlpool of sound." The stunning early tape music compositions on this LP incorporate field recordings, percussive tape loops, primitive delay systems and filters, and processed sounds derived from diverse sources including voices, the incorporation of the use eerie combinations of percussive noises, electronic, distortion, and loops to create a creepy sci-fi atmosphere. Some of the pieces, such as Jacobs' "Chan" and "Rhythm Study #8," are also forward-looking in their use of improvisational ethnic-flavored music on flute and guitar, along with an Indian tabla and Haitian drums. All in all, an essential artifact of obscure early American musique concrete!
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