Library Release

In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women

Robert Ashley's 1974 setting of John Barton Wolgamot's poem for voice and modular synthesizer.

Cover of In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women by Robert Ashley and Paul DeMarinis (Cramps Records, Nova Musicha n.3)
Cramps Records
Type
Release
Creators
Robert Ashley, Paul DeMarinis
Year
1974
Subjects
Sound Language Technology
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Robert Ashley’s 1974 recording sets John Barton Wolgamot’s 128-stanza poem in a dense, repetitive vocal delivery, with Paul DeMarinis’s modular Moog driven by impulses derived from the voice itself.