Rainforest Versions 1 & 4

David Tudor (Artist), Takehisa Kosugi (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 19, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mode
• ASIN: B000005ZKA
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #338,976 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars david tudor: brilliant creator of new worlds, May 31, 2003

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This review is from: Rainforest Versions 1 & 4 (Audio CD)

With Rainforest, his breakthrough piece, he was experimenting with the idea of getting sounds from objects, not just speakers, by running electricity through them.

I feel like this amazing piece exists phenomenally between & outside the argument of complete control music & aleatory. The music comes from a real physical space, completely locked within that large space the composer built, so it has that controlled structure, but once it's going the composer doesn't have any more to do with how it acts, how exactly the objects respond to the electricity. If you ask me, this is one of the most pivotal electronic pieces of the 20th century.