HIGHLIGHTS OF VORTEX / VARIOUS - VINYL HIGHLIGHTS OF VORTEX / VARIOUS [VINYL]

Popis - HIGHLIGHTS OF VORTEX / VARIOUS [VINYL]:
The brainchild of visual artist Jordan Belson and electronics polymath Henry Jacobs, the Vortex Experiments, ran from 1957 to 1960, first at San Francisco's Morrison Planetarium and later at the SF Museum of Art. The very name of these events announced their aim: a swirling totality of sensory experience. A landmark recording in the history of electronic tape music and an engrossing artifact of proto-psychedelia, 'Highlights Of Vortex' gathers recordings designed for the Vortex system by Jacobs and collaborators David Talcott, William Loughborough, and Gordon Longfellow. Source material, including free improvisation, field recording, classical Indian instrumentation, West African polyrhythms and musique concrète, is transmogrified through tape manipulation, atomizing swathes of reverb and delay, and other live and recorded effects. A must for fans of such visionaries as Stan Brakhage, Tony Conrad and Jack Smith. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies on clear vinyl.