Arel, Bulent
Electronic Music 1960-1973
Bülent Arel was a Turkish-born American composer of electronic and contemporary classical music. In 1959, following his studies at the Ankara Conservatory, Arel came to the USA on a grant by the Rockefeller Foundation to work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. There he met Edgard Varèse with whom (in 1962) he worked on the electronic sections of Varèse's 'Déserts'. Frank Zappa listed Arel as a key influence. Today's electronic music - may it be by Autechre's 'Confield', Aphex Twin's 'Selected Ambient Works Vol. II', or Squarepusher's 'Do You Know Squarepusher' - builds upon a solid foundation which Bülent Arel helped to pave. TRACKS: 1. Electronic Music No.1 / 1960 / 08:43 2. Mimiana I: Flux / 1968 / 10:45 3. Mimiana II: Frieze / 1969 / 13:10 4. Mimiana III: 6 & 7 / 1973 / 12:34 5. Stereo Electronic Music No.2 / 1970 / 14:24 6. Out of Into / 1972 / 16:38