Nikolais, Alwin: Electronic Dance Music, 1966-1989 - CASSETTES

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Title:

Electronic Dance Music, 1966-1989

Artist:

Nikolais, Alwin

Label:

Death Is Not the End

Product Type:

CASSETTES

UPC:

5050580877245

Genre:

Dance

Release Date:

2026-08-14

Number of Discs:

1

Often credited as the father of multi-media theatre, Alwin Nikolais (1910-1993) took complete creative control over his productions - including cutting-edge approaches to lighting and costume that transformed human bodies into shifting sculptural shapes, while also composing wildly innovative electronic music as accompaniment. After initially experimenting with musique concrète and tape manipulation (as demonstrated on the 1959 LP Choreosonic Music of the New Dance Theatre of Alwin Nikolais) Nikolais became the first owner of Robert Moog's synthesizer at the Audio Engineering Society convention in New York in late 1964. Relying heavily on the Moog and later the Synclavier synth/sampler, these 21 tracks document Nikolais' highly-prescient compositions across the mid 1960s through to the late 1980s - existing not only as extensions of his other-worldly choreographic pieces, but standalone pieces of foundational mid-century American electronic and experimental music.

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