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Super cool story. David Tudor brought a Moog to India in 1969, five Indian composers made a bunch of music with it, which was lost until recently https://twitter.com/reaktorplayer/status/1347236597901766656
A little frustrated by the framing of this story, which doesn't name the five composers but does name the person who rediscovered the tapes, a British musician named Paul Purgas. Trying to track down the names of the composers
Like how annoying is this description? You name-drop Xenakis, Cage, Tudor, Stockhausen, Laurie Spiegel, Louis Kahn, but the Indian composers are "unknown." They're not unknown anymore! Name them!
This article mentions the last surviving composer on the tapes, Jinraj Joshipura https://thequietus.com/articles/28253-paul-purgas-electronic-india-national-institute-of-design-radio-3-documentary-interview
Okay this article mentions a few more composers and has some audio excerpts: IS Mathur, SC Sharma, Atul Desai, Gita Sarabhai. Thanks @antrikshbali for the heads-up https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/electronic-india-moog-interview-paul-purgas
Also to call Gita Sarabhai "unknown" is pretty ridiculous, as she's literally the person who introduced John Cage to Indian music!! It's in freaking wikipedia for frick's sake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonatas_and_Interludes
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sorry, thought I was done but how gross is this pull-quote
It also directly contradicts Cage's account that Sarabhai was interested in cultural exchange to _preserve_ Indian traditions
