Seastones
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| Studio album by Ned Lagin | |
| Released | April 1975; re-released 1991 |
| Recorded | February 1975 |
| Genre | Electronic |
| Length | 44:40; 73:39 |
| Label | Round, United Artists; Rykodisc |
| Producer | Ned Lagin |
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Seastones is an album by American composer and musician Ned Lagin.
In 1975 Lagin released the quadraphonic album of electronic music, (composed between 1970-1974), a small part of the complete Seastones composition, on Round Records and then United Artists Records.
Lagin composed Seastones over the course of five years. It was recorded and mixed in just as many studios, and mastered at a sixth. Much of the album consists of electronically processed traditional instruments and voice, and a cadre of synthesizers (a custom E-mu Modular Synthesizer controlled by and processed through then-cutting-edge computer technology, with software patches and compositions by Lagin; an ARP 2500 and ARP 2600; and a Buchla Modular System). The early computers employed by Lagin included an Interdata 7/16 computer with a high speed arithmetic logic unit and magnetic core memory; an Intel 8080 microprocessor system built by Lagin; and at the beginning of 1975 an Altair 8800. The computer-controlled systems was designed and built for group live performance, with the performers instruments and voices routed through analog and digital synthesis and processing hardware. Seastones was one of the first commercially released recordings to feature the use of digital computers, and Lagin was the first to perform on stage live with computers. It was also a very early instance of multiple musicians' audio and control signals being interconnected before MIDI.
The album was mixed in quadraphonic sound, released in quad-encoded stereo, and featured guest performances by members of the Grateful Dead, including Jerry Garcia playing processed electric and pedal steel guitars, and voice; Phil Lesh playing electronic Alembic bass; and Mickey Hart on processed percussion. David Crosby (processed voice and electric 12-string guitar), and members of the Jefferson Airplane Grace Slick (processed voice), Spencer Dryden (processed percussion), and David Freiberg (processed voice) also appear on the album.
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