[CP 199.24 CD] IRCAM Un Portrait, (IBM) Computer-Musik

August 2025; brilliant compendium pairing two early-80s collections at the forefront of Digital Music: the 1983 "IRCAM Un Portrait" set & the 1984 "Computer-Musik" Art Book/Folio/LP issued by none other than International Business Machines (IBM). Plenty of C.P.-adjacent folks herein from Jean-Claude Risset & Mesias Maiguashca on the former to Klaus Ager, Horacio Vaggione, James Dashow, & Klarenz Barlow (R.I.P.; a wonderful person & incredible thinker) on the latter. Great to have these 2x "Mass-Market" tell-alls back in the fray, as they do a bang-up job of disambiguating the Militarily-Industrial tenets of the former from the coffee-table blankness of the latter, all while presenting a mix of "familiar" (see below) & "alien" concepts of how computers can be taught to create sound/music. PS: Fret not at Klaus Prünster & Serge Blenner's opening remarks on the latter; lord knows what the P.T.B. @ I.B.M. were thinking there, but from the Klaus Ager -forward the set opens up into a wonderful realm of Digital-Music thought. PPS. Great to see the tragically under-documented technician/composer David Wessel's name so prominently across the IRCAM "Demonstration Reels" at the onset; one of those "in the right place at the right time" folks whose research & assistance landed at a series of impeccable moments - on George Lewis' "Voyager", Trevor Wishart's "On Sonic Art", V.10 of Wergo's "Computer Music Currents", and a ton of AACM-adjacent sessions recorded at CNMAT in the 90s.. Tracklisting: "Ircam: Un Portrait" (IRCAM #IRCAM 0001, 1983) 1-01. Unknown Artist; Les Techniques De Synthèse (10:48) 1-02. Unknown Artist; Psycho-acoustique (10:20) 1-03. Unknown Artist; Aspects Compositionnels Et Temps-réel (10:49) 1-04. John Chowning; Stria (2:43) 1-05. Jean-Claude Risset; Songes (2:29) 1-06. Jonathan Harvey; Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (2:37) 1-07. Tod Machover; Soft Morning, City! (2:12) 1-08. Mesias Maiguashca; Fmelodies (3:19) 1-09. York Höller; Resonance (3:29) 1-10. Morton Subotnick; The Double Life Of Amphibians (2:27) 1-11. Pierre Boulez; Repons (5:56) "Computer-Musik" (IBM #none, 1984) 2-01. Klaus Prünster; Wunderwelt (1:59) 2-02. Serge Blenner; Equilibre I (3:25) 2-03. Klaus Ager; ORC 17 (3:05) 2-04. Otto Laske; Meditations (2:06) 2-05. Bill Schottstaedt*; Daily Life Among The Phrygians (5:35) 2-06. Andrew Schloss; The Towers Of Hanoi (4:54) 2-07. Horacio Vaggione; Octuor (5:03) 2-08. Klarenz Barlow*; Cogluotobüsisletmesi (4:00) 2-09. Erdenklang; Jingle Bells (1:41) 2-10. Roger Reynolds; ... The Serpent-snapping Eye (5:35) 2-11. Pierre Boulez; Répons (3:10) 2-12. Tod Machover; Fusione Fugace (5:34) 2-13. James Dashow; Der Kleine Prinz (Excerpt) (5:50)