Bob Moog Foundation Features New Musical Works of Pioneering Synthesist Joel Chadabe

New Compilations From Joel Chadabe

The Bob Moog Foundation is thrilled to feature two new compilations from internationally celebrated pioneering synthesis, composer and author, Joel Chadabe. Both albums, Intelligent Arts and Dynamic Systems, which include compositions from 1973 – 2012, are both available through the Foundation’s Online Store, along with the first two albums in the series, Electric Sound and Chadabe & Moog. All proceeds benefit our educational program, Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool, the historic preservation work of the Bob Moog Foundation Archives, and the Moogseum.

Intelligent Arts – Joel Chadabe

Intelligent Arts is a compilation of recordings from 1973 – 1997.

As an early adaptor of the Moog modular system, Chadabe began using it in compositions as early as 1966, and conceptualized the legendary CEMS (Coordinated Electronic Music Studio) System, which was built in 1970 by his life-long friend and colleague Bob Moog and his company R.A. Moog Co.

In 1977, Joel purchased the first Synclavier, a digital synthesizer / computer system built Sydney Alonso and Cameron Jones at New England Digital Corporation, and began to write programs for it with his then working partner Roger Meyers. He composed Solo, Scenes from Stevens, and Follow Me Softly with the Synclavier before asking Bob Moog to build two antennae, as modified theremins, to control the system as a conductor.

In 1986, Joel began using a MIDI system using a Macintosh computer to run M, an interactive composing and performing program created at Intelligent Music by David Zicarelli and others. Many of the songs on After Some Songs and Spring Drum were composed with M.

From that time to the present, when people ask me what I do as a composer, I explain that I do not compose pieces, I compose activities. A ‘piece’, whatever its content, is a construction with a beginning and end that exists independent of its listeners and within its own boundaries of time. An ‘activity’ unfolds because of the way people perform; and consequently, an activity happens in the time of living; and art comes closer to life.” – Joel Chadabe

Dynamic Systems – Joel Chadabe

In 1998, I was asked by Keyboard Magazine to write a review of Kyma, a new digital hardware/software system created by Carla Scaletti and Kurt Hebel. I purchased Kyma after writing the review. I composed Many Times …, One World 1, Micro Fictions, and Different Cities with Kyma. And I still use it.”

From that time to the present, when people ask me what I do as a composer, I explain that I do not compose pieces, I compose activities. A ‘piece’, whatever its content, is a construction with a beginning and end that exists independent of its listeners and within its own boundaries of time. An ‘activity’ unfolds because of the way people perform; and consequently, an activity happens in the time of living; and art comes closer to life.” – Joel Chadabe

Dynamic Systems is a compilation of recordings from 1997 – 2012.

Joel is also an historian and author. His book Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music, published by Prentice Hall in November 1996, is the first comprehensive overview of the history of electronic music.

Check out all four albums in the collection by Joel Chadabe at http://bit.ly/JoelChadabeBundles

Albums available from Joel Chadabe:

Chadabe and Moog – music created between 1966 – 1970

Electric Sound – music created between 1972 – 1987

Intelligent Arts – music created between 1973 – 1997

Dynamic Systems – music created between 1997 – 2012