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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 10:11:27 PST
From:         david_a._lewis@EDGEWAY.WIMSEY.BC.CA
Subject:      Wendy Carlos "SONIC SEASONINGS" on Compact Disc

Hi Everyone.....

This is my first effort at "sending" a message on E-Mail, so if I'm doing it
wrong, I appologize in advance...

I'm looking for a particular album by the electronic/classical/avante garde
composer Wendy Carlos, entitled "SONIC SEASONINGS", in COMPACT DISC format. It
was originally issued as a  vinyl L.P. in 1972 on "Columbia Stereo" (red
label) serial #PG-31234 .

If anyone reading this has EVER seen "SONIC SEASONINGS" on compact disc,
available anywhere in the world (perhaps as a Japanese import?),  I would
greatly appreciate hearing from you directly. It is often very difficult to
"special order" CD's in Canada....hence this request...

If anyone has any information on this, or information on how to contact Wendy
Carlos DIRECTLY, please contact me/and/or forward this message to her via
E-mail...

Carlos lives in the New York area, and is associated, I think, with Columbia
University.

Currently, her most recent recording was issued by "Telarc" called "Switched
On Bach 2000" (Telarc CD-80323), a restatement of her first  album (released
25 years ago) called "Switched On Bach".

"S.O.B. 2000" is VERY nicely done---it incorporates "authentic" (non-equal
temperment) scale tunings. This is perhaps the best way of utilizing the
microtonalism inherently possible in modern synth. keyboards. Her initial
exploration into microtonalist territory, entitled "Beauty in the Beast" was a
major departure, and although very interesting, was perhaps a bit of stretch
for the many fans of her previous output, who had been waiting eagerly (for
several years) for more neo-classical/baroque music...

The single, best seminal work  providing the corner-stone for the "New Age"
 "Environmental", "Psycho-acoustic", and "Electronic sampling" approaches to
 modern music,  is "SONIC
SEASONINGS".

Her work is an important landmark in the electronic music "soundscape", and it
deserves to be reissued/preserved on compact disc.

IF we all contact Telarc Records DIRECTLY, they just MIGHT re-issue
"SONIC SEASONINGS" (and the rest of her "back catalogue") on compact disc.

I don't have an E-Mail address for TELARC, or for Wendy Carlos...so...

Contact "Telarc" at (snail-mail):

                Telarc International Corporation
                Corporate Office
                23307 Commerce Park Road
                Cleveland, OH 44122 U.S.A.
                Ph. (216) 464-2313
                Business Fax (216) 360-9663
                Sales Fax (216) 464-4108

Thanks Very Much.
David A. Lewis

david_a._lewis@edgeway.wimsey.bc.ca,Internet
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