12/03/2022
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Donald Buchla and David Rosenboom at Music Gallery (Toronto) in 1978 performing Plymouth Rock, Section V (Humanity).
The performance followed the release of the album "Collaboration in Performance" in 1978, recorded at 1750 Arch Records, Berkley (CA). This recording featured two compositions:
— And Out Come the Night Ears created in 1978 for piano and Buchla 300 Series Electric Music Box,
— How Much Better if Plymouth Rock Had Landed On the Pilgrims, Section V — composition originally created in 1969 for the earlier recording. The 1978 version was adapted for performance with two Buchla Series 300 Electric Music Box instruments.
Conceptually the new version follows the idea of developing a cellular pattern in a cyclical structure. As the story goes, in 1977, while spending the summer in California, Rosenboom had been trying to teach Buchla to play piano. Despite initial enthusiasm to learn the analog instrument, Buchla faced a certain frustration attempting to reproduce musical patterns with piano. The engineering mind sought optimization of the task. As a result, patterns from the Plymouth Rock were programmed into the Buchla system, releasing its designer from the necessity to reproduce combinations proposed by Rosenboom in a traditional fashion.
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Performance photo by Judy Whalen; album cover design by Jacqueline Humbert.
