Highlights of Vortex: Electronic Experiments and Music (1959)

"Highlights of Vortex: Electronic Experiments and Music" LP (1959, Folkways Records). Compositions by Henry Jacobs, Gordon Longfellow, David L. Talcott and William Loughborough. "The music on this record was used as the score to the 1959 production "Vortex", shown in the Morrison Planetarium in San Francisco. One of the first multimedia events of its kind, the performance included tracks that were constructed for playback on a 38 speaker system by several different musicians/engineers. The music is primarily in the style of "Musique Concrete", a genre that features a wide array of sounds recorded to tape and then arranged in a specific order, but traditional instruments are heard on this recording as well". See tracklist below: 01. Trilogy (David Talcott) (00:00) 02. Chan (Henry Jacobs) (05:22) 03. For the Big Horn (William Loughborough) (07:37) 04. Logos (Henry Jacobs) (10:17) 05. Rhythm Study No. 8 (Henry Jacobs) (12:28) 06. Notes on the History of a World (Gordon Longfellow) (14:46) 07. Loop No. 3 (David Talcott) (18:54) 08. Electronic Kabuki Mambo (Henry Jacobs) (22:51) 09. 350-2 (Gordon Longfellow) (27:31)