Vladimir Ussachevsky's "Wireless Fantasy"

[2legs2armsetc]

This is a great piece, some of these works from the 50s are amazing.

[salmonator231]

And his brother, who was my Grandpa in Los Angeles was Leonoid Ussachevsky, Later Leon Stewart. He was a conductor with the Russian Ballaika Orchestra in L.A. and he would yell at Volva, WHAT The Hell are you composing??

[salmonator231]

This is my uncle, I remember him well growing up in Los Angeles. We called him Uncle Volva.

Peace Uncle.

[geoff573]

QST

[JamesRobertSalter]

It's nice . . . no doubt about it

[ThatsMsCalamariToYou]

Beautiful.

[Virtuosic1]

@ThatsMsCalamariToYou Absolutely beautiful. Actually, the basis for this composition wasn't wireless radio signals. Ussachevsky's goal was to re-create the sounds of an early wireless broadcast of Wagner's Parsifal, which he did magnificently by combining the narrowly filtered music with a motivic counterpoint all the sound elements (interference, white noise, spark gaps, etc.) that would have been heard throughout a crude early broadcast.

[ThatsMsCalamariToYou]

@Virtuosic1 Thank you. It's really lovely.

[LennoxSoundMilano]

2:04...i'm speachless...197what?!

[hifisucks]

DF - Lee Dee Forest, one of the first inventors of the tube...

[rggamer67]

anyone know what the morse code in the beginning translates to?

[donbosleymusic]

He didn't invent the envelope generator however, he did specify to Bob Moog that his envelope needed four stages : the ADSR that is now "the standard." I learned this from Joel Chadabe who was pretty close with Moog; he said Moog told him this after he had written his book "Electric Sound" so it isn't printed in it.

[boringalias]

powerful piece, a musical "Decline of the West" -- electric shambles with the holy (Parsifal) turned profane (blips and a drowsy tape playing)

[bigkest666]

the man who came up with the envelope generator!!! a true pioneer

[WC3POchannel10A]

Very cool!

[QuellBC]

Frightening. Try to listen to this while on acid and your head will explode.

[nirvanoide2008]

this is awesome man!!!!!!!!

[anthonyaranda]

Yay, one of my favorites!

[fredfosterx]

This song is horrifying.

[angrybeaverish]

@fredfosterx to these morons that call this "horrifying", please remember this was in the early..umm..70's? this is the exploding rocket that led eventually to the moon

[fredfosterx]

@angrybeaverish I wasn't talking about when it was made, I was talking about how it made me feel. I think this piece is incredible, but it's horrifying as well. It goes deep.

[matticusstupendicus]

This is pretty interesting stuff. Its like Space Mountain at Disneyland! Hahah. I think R2D2 has a solo somewhere on that track.

[johnnynoirman]

NUMBER 9....number 9..

[robotkarel]

@johnnynoirman this music exist before Revolution no. 9 by The Beatles

[johnnynoirman]

yes i know....just yanking your the old sack!

i actually like this piece. check out .Morton Subotnick's "Sidewinder" wild piece!

[piyowwww]

1960 trust me

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1952

[Corrado7mari]

Can anyone decipher the Morse code bits. I'm not very good at it. Thx

[lo0kingatthesky]

QST - sign of broadcast starting

DF - Manhattan Radio Beech radio station's ID signal

WA NY - sign of Waldorf-Astoria that started broadcasting in 1910

DOC DF - Lee De Forrest's nickname

AR - broadcast ending

GN - good night

[444582]

One of my favourite pieces of ElectroAcoustic music, ever. I was going to upload this, but you've done the fine work already.

If anyone was wondering, the orchestral piece used within is the Prelude to Wagner's 'Parcifal'.

[lucite11]

what year was this?

[444582]

1960

[lo0kingatthesky]

1963?