Dancing in your head: episode 15 - Electronic Panorama

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The record cover, an abstract in black and grey, made of woven textures, blocks of shade, and pyramids

In this episode Dan and Nell explore the music featured on the 1970 compilation box set Electronic Panorama: Paris, Tokyo, Utrecht, Warszawa. This four LP set is an incredible collection of tracks produced in the 60's at four of the worlds leading studios researching electronics, sound production and processing, editing, filtering techniques, and everything unique to recording. These were places of thorough experimentation that created sounds that are still fresh and vital. Each studio had one LP of music in the set:

Groupe De Recherches Musicales De L'O.R.T.F.
Studio Voor Elektronische Muziek Utrecht
Studio Of Radio NHK, Tokyo
Studio Eksperymentalne Polskie Radio

(This episode was first broadcast in February 2022)

Tracklist:
Theme Tune - Dancing in your head, Theme from a Symphony (variation 1) - Ornette Coleman
Solitaire - Arne Nordheim (Studio Eksperymentalne Polskie Radio)
Screen - Jaap Vink (Studio Voor Elektronische Muziek Utrecht)
Mandara - Toshiro Mayuzumi (Studio Of Radio NHK, Tokyo)
Dahovi II - Ivo Malec (Groupe De Recherches Musicales De L’O.R.T.F.)
Shur - Alireza Mashayekhi (Studio Voor Elektronische Muziek Utrecht)
Shōsanke - Makoto Moroi (Studio Of Radio NHK, Tokyo)

All tracks, apart from the Ornette Coleman, from the complialtion Electronic Panorama: Paris, Tokyo, Utrecht, Warszawa

The box set is open. you can see the four lps in their sleeves, the cover, and the booklet of notes
A studio mixing desk. The photo is high contrast and is red and white
The studio wall is covered in electronic devices, oscillators, filters, reverb unit, all patched together with patch cables.
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0ur monthly series where we travel to the outer limits of music and find out how it’s created through the ears and minds of musicians. Featuring our resident esoteric music specialists, Dan and Nell, with a broad range of guests.

All episodes of Dancing in Your Head were produced for Paekakariki FM