Rhythmania and Other Electronic Musical Compositions

Released in 1976, Rhythmania and Other Electronic Musical Compositions spotlights the sounds of a specially assembled Moog Synthesizer (a type of analog synthesizer). The variety is impressive: from birdcalls and the sounds of machines in a factory to waltzes. Pieces such as “Cosmic Dance of Shiva” and “Hear the Clock Tick” are “composed of natural sounds recorded through a microphone,” rather than generated electronically like the “Triptych” fugues. This album also highlights electronic instruments as soloists in a genre of music that J.D. Robb says is “capable of expressing a very wide range of ideas and...emotions.” Liner notes include detailed track notes by J.D. Robb.

Track Listing

101	Triptyque: First Fugue	J.D. Robb	00:56
102	Triptyque: Second Fugue	J.D. Robb	02:10
103	Triptyque: Third Fugue	J.D. Robb	01:48
104	Rhythmania	J.D. Robb	03:13
105	Cosmic Dance of Shiva	J.D. Robb	05:24
106	Soliloquy	J.D. Robb	00:59
107	Factory Sounds	J.D. Robb	02:25
108	The Beautiful Blue Danube	J.D. Robb	04:34
201	Hear the Clock Tick	J.D. Robb	02:45
202	Chaconne	J.D. Robb	04:08
203	Toccata	J.D. Robb	03:13
204	Poem of Summer	J.D. Robb	02:15
205	Capricho	J.D. Robb	01:39
206	Little Suite: Lonely Wanderer	J.D. Robb	01:47
207	Little Suite: Imaginary Birds	J.D. Robb	02:06
208	Little Suite: Little Bells	J.D. Robb	01:09
209	Synthi Waltz	J.D. Robb	02:02