Otto Joachim - Anthology Of Canadian Music = Anthologie De La Musique Canadienne.
A retrospective of this important Canadian composer, complete with a full CBC radio interview. From the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada :
"As a member of the modernist avant-garde, Joachim wrote music in its main vogues: serial, aleatoric, and electroacoustic. In the mid-1950s he set up his own electroacoustic music studio - the third in Canada and the first privately owned - and, after several years of study and experimentation, created Katimavik, a work on four-track tape commissioned by the Canadian Pavilion at Expo 67. In The Canadian Music Journal (Winter 1959) he prepared a revision of Electronic Music, a collection of 12 texts published in Ottawa in 1956. In 1971 he produced two other wholly electronic compositions, 6 1/2 and 5.9, the titles being the durations (in minutes) of the works. As a member of the modernist avant-garde, Joachim wrote music in its main vogues: serial, aleatoric, and electroacoustic. In the mid-1950s he set up his own electroacoustic music studio - the third in Canada and the first privately owned - and, after several years of study and experimentation, created Katimavik, a work on four-track tape commissioned by the Canadian Pavilion at Expo 67. In The Canadian Music Journal (Winter 1959) he prepared a revision of Electronic Music, a collection of 12 texts published in Ottawa in 1956. In 1971 he produced two other wholly electronic compositions, 6 1/2 and 5.9, the titles being the durations (in minutes) of the works. In Stimulus à Goad (1973), for guitar and live electroacoustic sound, the guitarist controls the quality of the electroacoustic sound, so that the instrument elicits certain responses from the synthesizer." This work is included on this set in the recording made by his son, guitarist Davis Joachim.
An essential item in any collection of electro-acoustic recordings.
