Musica Elettronica Viva

• TRANSLUCENT GREEN VINYL

Recorded in live performance at the Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste) in Berlin on October 5, 1967, Spacecraft is made up of a single piece of the same name – a slow building, jarring and disquieting work that reveals the entire MEV ethos in its lone half hour. As group member Alvin Curran put it “The music could go anywhere, gliding into self-regenerating unity or lurching into irrevocable chaos - both were valuable goals. In the general euphoria of the times, MEV thought it had re-invented music; in any case it had certainly rediscovered it.

PERSONNEL:

• Alvin Curran - electronic, trumpet, voice
• Frederic Rzewski - electronics
• Allan Bryant - synthesizer
• Richard Teitelbaum synthesizer, electronic, voice
• Ivan Vandor - tenor sax
• Carol Plantamura - voice

Recorded in Berli, October 5, 1967

TRACKS:

• SIDE A: Spacecratf I ...... 13:52
• SIDE B: Spacecratf Ii ..... 17:14