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
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Triptyque: First Fugue | J.D. Robb | 0:56 | |
102
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Triptyque: Second Fugue | J.D. Robb | 2:10 | |
103
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Triptyque: Third Fugue | J.D. Robb | 1:48 | |
104
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Rhythmania | J.D. Robb | 3:13 | |
105
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Cosmic Dance of Shiva | J.D. Robb | 5:24 | |
106
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Soliloquy | J.D. Robb | 0:59 | |
107
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Factory Sounds | J.D. Robb | 2:25 | |
108
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The Beautiful Blue Danube | J.D. Robb | 4:34 | |
201
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Hear the Clock Tick | J.D. Robb | 2:45 | |
202
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Chaconne | J.D. Robb | 4:08 | |
203
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Toccata | J.D. Robb | 3:13 | |
204
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Poem of Summer | J.D. Robb | 2:15 | |
205
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Capricho | J.D. Robb | 1:39 | |
206
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Little Suite: Lonely Wanderer | J.D. Robb | 1:47 | |
207
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Little Suite: Imaginary Birds | J.D. Robb | 2:06 | |
208
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Little Suite: Little Bells | J.D. Robb | 1:09 | |
209
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Synthi Waltz | J.D. Robb | 2:02 |