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Suzanne Ciani, Metropole Orkest & Simon Dobson CIANI/ORKEST

The premise could have gone wrong in a dozen familiar ways—the orchestra reduced to a string pad, the synthesizer to a novelty soloist. Instead, Ciani wrote an hour and a quarter of new music, nine continuous sections that leave the seashore and circle back to it, and let the two instruments negotiate in real time. The Buchla improvises; the orchestra, under Simon Dobson, breathes around it. What the recording captures is less a fusion than a conversation between two different ideas of time—voltage and bow speed—neither of which agrees to be accompaniment. Ciani is approaching eighty and still finding new rooms to put her machine in. The vinyl edition is quadraphonic, limited to 1,024 copies; the first 265 come with a lenticular cover that moves when you do.

Electronic / Orchestral / Buchla Synthesis · AKP Recordings