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Soothing Sounds For Baby - Raymond Scott

Soothing Sounds For Baby

Raymond Scott  

Format: 1 Vinyl, 1 Vinyl, 1 Vinyl, 1 All Media

Genre: electronic, Children's, Electroacoustic, Health-Fitness

Barcode: 8719262017863

 

 
 

Artist

Born: 09/10/1908 in Brooklyn, NY.
Died: 02/08/1994 in North Hills, CA.

Composer, bandleader and inventor Raymond Scott was among the unheralded pioneers of contemporary experimental music.

Of all of Scott's accomplishments of 1949, however, none was more important than the Electronium, one of the first synthesizers ever created. An "instantaneous composing machine," the Electronium generated original music via random sequences of tones, rhythms, and timbres; Scott himself denied it was a prototype synthesizer — it had no keyboard — but as one of the first machines to create music by means of artificial intelligence, its importance in pointing the way towards the electonic compositions of the future is undeniable. His other inventions included the "Karloff," an early sampler capable of recreating sounds ranging from sizzling steaks to jungle drums; the Clavinox, a keyboard Theremin complete with an electronic sub-assembly designed by a then 23-year-old Robert Moog; and the Videola, which fused together a keyboard and a TV screen to aid in composing music for films and other moving images.

By the middle of the 1960s, Scott began turning increasingly away from recording and performing to focus on writing and inventing; a 1969 musical celebrating the centennial of Kentucky Bourbon was his last orchestral work, with his remaining years spent solely on electronic composition. Among his latter-day innovations was an early programmable polyphonic sequencer, which along with the Electronium later caught the attention of Motown chief Berry Gordy Jr., who in 1971 tapped Scott to head the label's electronic music research and development team. After retiring six years later, he continued writing — his last known piece, 1986's "Beautiful Little Butterfly," was created on MIDI technology.

Tracks

A1  Lullaby  14:06

A2  Sleepy Time  04:23

B1  The Music Box  06:06

B2  Nursery Rhyme  05:50

B3  Tic Toc  08:04

C1  Tempo Block  03:15

C2  The Happy Whistler  10:45

D  Toy Typewriter  17:44

E1  Tin Soldier  09:24

E2  Little Miss Echo  07:23

F  The Playful Drummer  14:56

Releases

Formats

CD, Vinyl

Labels

Music On Vinyl, Basta

Countries

Netherlands, Europe

years

1999, 2009, 2017, 2021

Members

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