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Early Electronic Music

WDR Cologne Electronic Music Studio 1956

Download an 8pp article from HIGH FIDELITY magazine, October 1956, on the subject of the WDR Cologne Electronic Music studio; composer-in-residence Karl Stockhausen.  Author is Allen Forte.

DOWNLOAD: Forte_ElectronicMusic_WDR_Cologne_1956

This piece provides a fascinating look into the tools and techniques
used at one of the earliest dedicated electronic-music-production facilities in the world.  Instruments discussed include the Bode-Melochord and the Monochord.  We also learn in the article that apparently John Cage had to sell some of his Thirteen Radios to purchase Eight Tape Recorders.  In related news, I heard that you and your band sold your guitars and bought turntables; I  hear that you and your band sold your turntables and bought guitars.  (another connection – he was apparently there at the first CAN show – IN COLOGNE – coincidence?) And the great circle of life continues.

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Radio Shows

WPKN 89.5 FM P / S Radio Show 10.10.18 available to stream now thru Nov 10

This month’s Preservation Sound Radio show has been broadcast, but you listen to an archive stream now through November 11.  This month’s show focused on rare 70’s soul and soul jazz.

Here’s the link to listen to the show…

…and here’s the setlist.  Some v great and v rare cuts here, all from the original LPs.  Check it out…

Setlist:

  1. the southside movement “I’ve been watching you”
  2. Candi Staton “i’ve got evidence”
  3. brother to brother “in the bottle
  4. Baby Huey “Hard times
  5. the escorts “all we need is one more chance”  (*SET BREAK*)
  6. the last poets “time
  7. Eugene McDaniels “the silent majority”
  8. fred wesley “damn right i am somebody”
  9. kool & the gang “ancestral ceremony
  10. mandrill “Tee Vee” (*SET BREAK*)
  11. Honey Cone “Sunday morning people”
  12. Andre Crouch “Everything changed”
  13. New york city “Hang your head in shame”
  14. smith connection “I’ve been in love”
  15. the true reflection “whisper” (*SET BREAK*)
  16. james brown “woman”
  17. Laura Lee “women’s love rights”
  18. cornelius bros and sister rose “let me down easy”
  19. the dramatics “in the rain”
  20. don covay “I was checking out she was checking in” (*SET BREAK*)
  21. the emotions “Going on strike”
  22. betty wright “come on up”
  23. john & ernest “superfly meets shaft”
  24. marvin gaye “T plays it cool”
  25. crown heights affair “you can’t bend my super rod” (*SET BREAK*)
  26. Act 1 “friends or lovers”
  27. brook benton “take a look at your hands”
  28. mavis staples “son of a preacher man”
  29. joe tex “the love you save”
  30. sam & dave “i’ve seen what loneliness can do” (*SET BREAK*)
  31. Julius Brockington “love world”
  32. william fischer “patience is a virtue”
  33. Placebo “inner city blues”
  34. the equatics “ain’t no sunshine”
  35. bob james “Nautilus” (*SET BREAK*)
  36. Sun Ra “We travel the spaceways” (live at Montreaux)
  37. Funkadelic “tales of kid funkadelic”
  38. Yusef Lateef “destination paradise”
  39. Herbie mann “come together”

 

 

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Gold Coast Recorders

Ula Ruth LP “Don’t Lose The Room” available now

Ula Ruth’s first full-length album is out now.

Here’s a link to listen on Spotify

Produced and recorded by yours truly at Gold Coast Recorders (RIP) and mixed by Greg Giorgio, this album is the culmination of several recording projects I have done with this group over the past five years.  I am super-proud of the work we’ve done here and I hope you enjoy the songs.  CR

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Recording Studio History Television Sound

Reeves Sound Studio Television Operations circa 1962

Courtesy Tom and John Fine is this fascinating 14pp 1962 article on the then-state-of-the-art television operations at Reeves Sound Studio.

Download is in two parts due to file size:

DOWNLOAD PART 1: BroadcastNews _6205_ReevesTVstudios_PART1

DOWNLOAD PART 2: BroadcastNews_6205ReevesTVstudios_PART2

Tom Fine had earlier presented us with a history of Reeves Sound Studios NYC; click here to read that 2014 piece.  Today’s scan comes from what appears to be a promotional re-print of an article originally published in Broadcast News magazine.  Tom comments, “Aside from the interesting antique TV and film production facilities and equipment shown, we see a photo of audio engineer Jack Higgins, who made many Riverside jazz records.”

You can some read more of Tom’s contributions to P/S dot com, including much information on his own family’s storied studio operations, at the following pages:

Fine Recording INC, pioneers in hi-fidelity recording

Bob Fine’s Mobile Recording Truck, 1951-1966

WMGM Studio, NYC

Emory Cook, Binaural Recording Pioneer

 

 

 

 

 

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performances

First-ever live solo show THIS SATURDAY 9.29.18 New Haven CT

This Saturday September 29 2018 I will be performing live solo in a club for the first time…ever.  I will be at State House in New Haven CT opening for Steve Hauschildt and Brett Naucke.   I’ll be running a quadraphonic installation combining improvised electronics, tape, and singing bowls.  Pretty typical.  If you’re in the area, come on down and zone out/in w/us.  Door at 8PM.  Here’s a link to buy tix  + more info.  

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Uncategorized

“JUST ANOTHER FEELING” : New ULA RUTH single: out now

JUST ANOTHER FEELING, the new single from Ula Ruth, is available now on all major platforms.  Recorded and produced by yours truly at Gold Coast Recorders, mixed by Greg Giorgio.  Artwork by Aashna Shah.  Check it out – one of my all-time faves I had worked on with these guys.

JUST ANOTHER FEELING on Spotify

JUST ANOTHER FEELING iTunes

JUST ANOTHER FEELING on Soundcloud

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Reader submissions

Stereo Vacuum Tube Studio EQ based on 1955 Circuit

Many years ago I posted this schematic which I found in Audio magazine circa 1955:

I forgot all about it, probably because I quickly gave-up on finding dual 250k/500k pots.  PS do com reader Alekos Gavriilidis from Thessaloniki Greece went ahead and built it anyway, using separate pots instead of dual-gang pots , and found this to yield useful results.  Alekos writes:

“… i’ve just finished the project (EQ TUBES 6SL7). Im sending you photos of this project. I used 4 tubes 2 in parallel for every channel.  Now the sound is incredible!!!!!!!  P.S. I had a little noise from the filaments so i changed the voltage from AC to DC volt. Soon it will be in a studio”

Here’s his notes on the schematic:

Here’s a quick diary of his build:

…and here’s the layout that Alekos used for the panel:

He also provided plots of the action of the various controls:

Thanks very much for sharing this with us Alekos!  If you’ve had success building one of the circuits that I’ve posted here over the years, please let us know about it… your success might encourage others to do the same.

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Mixtapes Pro Audio Archive

1981 ADM Custom Film Mixing Console For Glen Glenn Sound

Tom Chrapkiewicz,  former engineer for ADM Technology (Audio Designs and Mfg) sent us some information on this extremely sophisticated console that they designed in 1981 for Glen Glenn Sound.

Tom tells us, ‘above is a scan of a sales photo/document for one of the Consoles we made at ADM circa 1981 for Glen Glenn Sound (later Todd AO) Hollywood.  The application was for Dialogue, Effects and Music production for film.  Countless films in the mid to late 1980s were done on these consoles. This is an early automated, digitally controlled analog audio console. The mixing control was via multiple 6502 microprocessors – one per each of the 65 inputs.  These multiple microprocessors were networked together to a (I believe 8080/CP/M system.  The analog path was controlled via dbx2001 VCA within each input strip.’

Tom can be reached at tchrapkiewicz (at) gmail (dot) com

For earlier ADM posts on PS dot com, click here… and here.

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Film Scores

MINDING THE GAP with original score by Halpern and Ruggiero in theaters now

Late last year Nathan Halpern and I scored this excellent film by director Bing Lui and it is now in theaters and streaming online via Hulu. “Minding The Gap” debuted at Sundance this year, winning the ‘Breakthrough Filmmaking Award,’ and it is an exceptionally bold and honest American coming-of-age story. The critical response has been exceptionally strong, with many critics making special note of our score:

“…the music and mood attain a melancholy perfection” (The Wall Street Journal)
“The score by Nathan Halpern and Chris Ruggiero is sparse and beautiful and perfect” (Chicago Sun-Times)
“an odyssey… cut to Nathan Halpern and Chris Ruggiero’s achingly beautiful score”  (Vulture)
“… owes its goose-bump-inducing power in part to Nathan Halpern and Chris Ruggiero’s swirling piano score” (Variety)
“Watching the men skate during the opening credits sequence, propelled by Nathan Halpern and Chris Ruggiero’s wistful piano score, the act of skating transforms into a liberating art form” (Forbes)

Our original score is available to hear now on Spotify, Apple music, and all the other usual digital platforms.

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Radio Shows

Preservation Sound Radio 080818: LINK TO LISTEN NOW

This month’s Preservation Sound Radio show has aired, but you can stream the program at this link until September 9th 2018.  Solo show this month; typical 1967 – 1982 rock, new-wave,  soul, and psych sorta LPs that I usually play but the show is ALL-NEW this month,,, been a good month for crate digging.  Please note that there is a skip at the beginning of the stream, so the first track (Stratford’s own EPITOME, 1977 Dolls-esque punk cover of “Transistor Sister”)  was lost… also several other random skips in the stream… the station had server issues that night apparently…

Setlist:

  1. Epitome TRANSISTOR SISTER (missing)
  2. sniff n the tears DRIVERS SEAT
  3. the psychedelic furs FOREVER NOW
  4. automatic man PEARL
  5. Jim carroll LORRAINE

(set break)

6. atomic rooster TOMORROW NIGHT (stream damaged)

7. uriah heep DREAMIN  (stream damaged)

8. the witch BLACK TEARS

9. hal Atkinson UNTIL YOUVE BEEN ON A HARLEY DAVIDSON

10. circuit rider HOW LONG

(set break)

11. rick danko BRAIN WASH

12. Gary wright TWO FACED MAN

13. John Lennon MIND GAMES

14. bernie schwartz CANT GO ON

(set break)

15. terry reid SEED OF MEMORY

16. marcus GRAINS OF SAND

17. hackamore brick GOT A GAL NAMES WILMA

18. cat mother TRACK IN A

19. kyle I THINK IM GONNA RAIN

(set break)

20. bonnie koloc ANGEL FROM MONTGOMERY

21.roy harper SHES THE ONE

22. nicky hopkins DOLLY

23. michael kamen HOT AS THE SUN

24. ricki illonga STOP DREAMING MR D

(set break)

25. faith FREEDOM

26. gil scott heron THE BOTTLE

27. brother to brother I WISH IT WOULD RAIN

28. millie jackson TELL HER ITS OVER

29. mystic moods orchestra MIDNIGHT SNACK

(set break)

30. wee AEROPLANE (REPRISE)

31. clearlight symphony SIDE 1 EXCERPT

32. lord buckley MARQUIS DE SADE (EXCERPT)

33. cromagnon CALEDONIA

34. csny OHIO (Live NJ 1970)

(set break)

35. airport convention TIME WILL SHOW THE WISER

36. kevin john agosti OREGON

37. brethren SUCCESS BRAND OIL