• DOUBLE LP EDITION

Pioneering Scottish-Canadian animator Norman McLaren (1914-1987) - creator of seminal short films Dots, Neighbours, Synchromy and many more - is remembered in first ever release of soundtrack works, self-composed from the 1940’s to 1970’s and forecasting the following half-century of electronic music.

Norman McLaren was once described by composer, music theorist, and mathematician Milton Babbitt as “the first electronic musician.” In addition to his pioneering work in animation, the electronic soundtracks McLaren created for his own films employ astonishing foresight and a characteristically precise methodology. They also crystallise boundless creativity, wit and whimsy, and illuminative brilliance into a unique insight to his remarkable mind, with or without visual accompaniment.

LP ONE:
A1. Now Is The Time
A2. Rythmetic
A3. Neighbours

B1. Synchromy
B2. unreleased composition, 1945-1946
B3. Dots
B4. Loops
B4. Mosaic
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LP TWO:
C1. unreleased composition 1945-1946
C2. unreleased composition, 1945-1948
C3. unreleased composition, 1969
C4. unreleased composition, 1964-1965

D1. Opening Speech: Norman McLaren