[CP 281.02 CD] Experimentelle Musik

February 2023; after virtually no wait at all, here's the second title in the CP 281.XX "Shorts" program, covering this delightful 1966 GDR-issued 10" covering the first (and only!) recordings of music made with & composed for the Subharchord. While (certainly) sharing more than a passing topology w/ Dr. Friedrich Trautwein's preceding Trautonium, the Subharchord was a more slimmed-down, portable version of the divide-down oscillator synthesizer that unfortunately never met its muse (in the way the former did in Oskar Sala) - a shame given the timbral complexity of its voice across the pieces herein, roughly split between Compositions for Films, TV Movies, "TV Crime Series", for puppet theater, and Demonstrations. In the time it takes to simply read the (hilariously in-depth) tracklisting (to your left) you will be awed by the peculiar sounds on display here, ranging from mutant, slewed runs of plucky oscillator chirp to the kinds of Analog/Modular-based automations that wouldn't b