ABSTRACTUM: The Electrogenic Music OF Val Stephen
(DUAL008LP)

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Tracklist
SIDE I

1. Rhythmic Jungle
2. Rhythm Alternate
3. Untitled I
4. Untitled II
5. Untitled III
6. Abstractum
SIDE II

1. Echovessence 
2. Music For An Imaginary TV        Ballet
A lost collection of home studio tape manipulations and VCS3 synthesizer experiments from the unsung Australian composer Val Stephen. A practising medical anaesthetist turned electronic music innovator, Stephen’s study of tape music originates back as early as the 1950s. Throughout the following decades he created a remarkable personal archive of uncharted electronic compositions and experimental music sketches using a range of resourceful tools and pioneering techniques. With only two of his compositions ever published (Folkways - Electronic Music. 1967) ABSTRACTUM is an amazing look into the previously undocumented world of this silent innovator. A hallucinogenic hybrid of sedated synthesis & primordial Musique Concrete that will appeal to those interested in experimental music such as Basil Kirchin’s Worlds Within Worlds and Pierre Henry’s Le Voyage
  • A lost collection of home studio tape manipulations and VCS3 synthesizer experiments.
  • A hallucinogenic hybrid of sedated synthesis & primordial Musique Concrete.
  • For those interested in experimental music such as Basil Kirchin’s Worlds Within Worlds and Pierre Henry’s Le Voyage