KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ First Festival of Live Electronic Music: VII by Harold Budd

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

FLEM.196X.XX.XX.5

Program Series

First Festival of Live Electronic Music

Program Length

14 min

Dates

| broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

A work by Harold Budd, most likely performed as part of the First Festival of Live Electronic Music, which involved a series of five concerts given at Mills College and the University of California at Davis on December 4-6, 1967. “VII” by Harold Budd was perhaps the most conservative piece performed during the Festival. Groups of instrument types, strings, winds, brass, and percussion were given relatively free rein, within certain limitations, as to the register and number of attacks. These limitations were applied over periods of time determined by the individual players. The New Music Ensemble took the composer up on the option of electronic amplification in order to capture many of the softer sounds called for in the composition. The end result was a piece entirely appropriate for the Festival’s emphasis on aleatoric, avant-garde music.

(Some of this information is from Will Johnson’s article in the magazine “Source: Music for the Avant-Garde” No. 4)

Genres

Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
Avant-garde

Musical Selections

VII / Harold Budd

Performers

The New Music Ensemble:
Larry Austin
Billie Alexander
Stanley Lunetta
John Mizelle
Arthur Woodbury

Subjects

Electro-acoustic
Electronic music
Avant-garde (Music)
Aleatory music

Related places

Davis (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

First Festival of Live Electronic Music
Budd, Harold
Austin, Larry
Lunetta, Stanley
Mizelle, Dary John, 1940-
Woodbury, Arthur
Alexander, Billie