The Oak Of The Golden Dreams

The Oak of the Golden Dreams - Realized on the Buchla Electronic Music System at California Institute of the Arts, then in Burbank, in 1970, was accomplished in a real-time situation: a single performance going directly to magnetic recording tape. The tuning of ‘’the treble cantilena‘’, done wholly by ear, is 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7 on E-flat. This piece is the last in a series of pieces named for California place names beginning in 1966 with Noyo, followed by Boonville (1967), California 99 (1969), and Healdsburg Plum (1970). Coeur D’Orr - Was originally designed in 1969 for sculptor Eric Orr. The 8-track organ tape was recorded in April, 1970, at Immaculate Heart College with the assistance of Dorrance Stalvey and Robert Chadwick. The two tracks ~ D-flat major (The Candy-Apple Revision) and B major ~ were recorded separately and sent to mix in live air via played back stereophonically causing occasional sensations of rapid scalar passages and producing a predominant mixolydian mode on D-flat. Charles Orena, the soprano sax soloist, first performed to the piece in May, 1970, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This version was recorded by Ken Heller in Los Angeles in December, 1971. Advanced Recordings is a non-profit educational enterprise for the recording of new music © 1972