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An Autodidactic Polymath’s Journey Through Sound — Part 2
1972
Inspired by the Beatles and numerous other experimental music makers I began creating sound montages in my early 20’s.
Around 1972 I finished a piece called “Beethoven’s Fifth Nightmare” — 15 minutes of carefully selected audio morsels put in a blender, producing a veritable bubble tea of music and sound.
You can read about, and listen to it, here.
Jump ahead to 1979
In the mid 1970s I focused more on my fiction and poetry writing—and my emerging creativity with collage in visual art.
The later, driven by the emerging energy of punk music culture, led to my co-editing an alternative arts publication. Small Magazine Edited by Greater Manhattan Artists.
But then . . . for the third issue there emerged the idea of including a flexi-disc record inside the magazine and thus my audio montage skills were again called to duty.
