Imaginary Landscapes

Collection (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 28, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nonesuch
• ASIN: B000005J05
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #426,948 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Loose Canons [Excerpt]

2. On the Swing [Excerpt from Pomp and Circumstances]

3. Balkanization [Excerpt]

4. Simple Degradation (Border)

5. Speaker Swinging [Excerpt]

6. What Happened

7. The Music Rooms [Excerpt from Stain]

8. Music for Alpha Waves, Assorted Percussion, and Automated Coded Relays

9. Dialects [Excerpt]

10. Real Electronic Music

11. A Spoonful of Tea in a Barrel Full of Honey [Excerpt]

12. Black Stucco

13. Somwhere in Arizona 1970

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Electroacoustic at its best, October 18, 2007

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William Jens Jensen (North America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Imaginary Landscapes (Audio CD)

This may be the best electroacoustic collection I've ever heard. I found it on tape when it was first released and listened to it regularly for years, and the CD is a worthwhile upgrade in sound quality. "Imaginary Landscapes" features a broad range of sounds, including "Somewhere in Arizona 1970," a humorous, paranoid ride through an underground government UFO project somewhere, of course, in Arizona. My favorite, perhaps, is "What Happened" by Laetitia deCompiegne Sonami. I've looked for other releases by this artist and found only one (see Messiah Remix). Although released in 1989, the music on "Imaginary Landscapes" holds up quite well. Unfortunately, the CD appears to be out of print. Get hold of a used one while still available.

Sadly, much of what passes for this sort of adventurous music today is rather self-conscious, artless, and overly intellectual. Nonetheless, some exceptional electroacoustic music ("musique actuelle") is available from Montreal's Ambiances Magnetiques/Dame. If you're curious, search the label on Amazon.com, where some are available. Also check out the artist "Blue" Gene Tyranny (featured in this collection): "The Somewhere Songs" and "Out of the Blue" (both available here as downloads).