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Highlights of Vortex

Various Artists
Highlights of Vortex This record functions as the 1959 avant-garde score for Vortex, a music/film production shown in the Morrison Planetarium in San Francisco. One of the first multimedia events of its kind, this performance includes tracks that were constructed for playback on a 38 speaker system by several different musicians/engineers. According to the Center of Visual Music, the performance created a "type of immersion environment [that] had never been created before".

Artists include Henry Jacobs, Gordon Longfellow, David L. Talcott, and William Loughborough. This electronic music is primarily in the style of Musique Concrete – a genre that features a wide array of sounds recorded to tape and then arranged in a specific order – but more traditional instruments are heard on this recording as well.

Track Listing

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101
David Talcott
05:23
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102
Henry Jacobs
02:22
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103
William Loughborough
02:44
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104
Henry Jacobs
02:15
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105
Henry Jacobs
02:21
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201
Gordon Longfellow
04:11
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202
David Talcott
04:01
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203
Henry Jacobs
04:44
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204
Gordon Longfellow
03:30