HPSCHD (Electronic Music Foundation CD, 2003)

2003

Music/Sound

Electronic Music Foundation, EMF CD 038
CD in slipcase with 15 cards (limited first edition)

The Listening Room

Description

John Cage and Lejaren Hiller composed HPSCHD in 1967–69 for harpsichords and 51 tapes. The harpsichords play computer-generated variations on Mozart and other composers, and the tapes, in scales of 5 to 56 notes per octave, were made with the University of Illinois’s ILLIAC II computer. On this 2003 Electronic Music Foundation CD the composer Joel Chadabe and the harpsichordist Robert Conant perform it in a new version. The slipcase and its 15 cards reuse images from the 1969 premiere, credited to Gary Viskupic, Calvin Sumsion and Ronald Nameth.

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