For this two CD release, Seastones has been re-mixed and re-mastered in stereo from the surviving original 16 track, 4 track, and 2 track magnetic tape masters. Beginning in 1978, and continuing for the next 40 years, Lagin's primary media for creativity has been photography and art. All the controls on each module that had an adjustment knob also had a custom voltage control input added for computer control or adjustment of that function. Copyright and (P) 1975, 1990, 2017 Ned Lagin Ways of being in the world. Small software programs were created to implement the polyphonic Eu keyboard, to change synthesizer patches, settings on external instruments and voices, ensemble As a kid, electricity and electronics, nature and natural history, chemistry and minerals, sound and music, and electromagnetic fields were all connected. Important Records announce the release on vinyl LP of Ned Lagin's Seastones Sets 4 and 5.Ned Lagin's Seastones is a pioneering electronic composition interweaving metaphors from nature, science, art and music and the origins of music. Ned Lagin's Seastones is a groundbreaking electronic work which features musicians Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, David Crosby, Grace Slick, David Freiberg, Mickey Hart, and Spencer Dryden. For both recorded and live performances of Seastones musicians instruments and voices (audio) were each routed into the Eu analog synthesizer or other electronic signal processing circuitry so that amplitude envelopes, threshold gating signals and triggers (events and rhythms) could be extracted or derived from each individual musician's audio. Restoration included using digital audio tools for noise removal layer by layer, track by track. The set was connected to "ground" through the steam radiator pipe in my room, and I had a set of (Army surplus) headphones. [4][5], He is known for his electronic music composition Seastones, for performing with the Grateful Dead, and for his photography and art. Each a unique presence, each a droplet of time, a moment form. Some are metaphoric abstracted forms derived from geology and natural history and paleontology, electronics and electricity, organic and biochemical synthesis, physical Whenever I walk along the beach I find myself, like so many others, picking up stones cast up or uncovered by the waves. No digital music media existed at or near the time, but one could see a future with digital random-access media and technologies. Cat Dreams is formally a suite of composed pieces, and composed melodic, tonal, and rhythmic frameworks for improvisation. InfoWorld, Vol. As is the music we play and sing, the pictures we make, the words we write. Their, and our, sensing and feeling of sound and music through and around the body, the physiological effects of music on body and mind and heart. John W. Scott, Mike Dolgushkin, Stu Nixon, Deadbase, Jr. Deadbase, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1995. Charged with the wildness of billions of nights and days, an immense "timescape" (time "landscape", time spatialized), under the ocean or buried in the sand amongst countless other stones. The Eu had four voice channels of voltage controlled oscillators, filters, amplifiers and envelope generators, as well as other modules. Reflecting the technology, science, modern art, new ecolog A time characterized by cultural metaphors of creation and synthesis associated with Ned Lagin was born in New York City and raised on Long Island in Roslyn Heights, New York. Composing started on paper (written graphical and musical scores and notes); over some time multitrack recording tape (audio âscoresâ) replaced most but not all paper for me. "The earth has music for those who listen." [12], During the 1974 tours, he played through the vocal system of the Wall of Sound PA, in quad, with 9600 watts going through over two hundred speakers. The compositional tools for both the studio realizations and live performances of Seastones were acoustic, electric, electro-acoustic, electronic instruments, voices, magnetic tape recording, and electronic processing, modulation, and transformation of instruments and voice (words and tones) through modular analog, hybrid analog-digital and computer hardware and software. Most of my written and recorded music, on paper and on tape, was either stolen (1975) or destroyed by the massive storm and flooding on January 2, 1982 in Northern California. Words as molecules of sound - vibrating and resonating. And each charged with its own storied experience of presence and absence, of the ever changing conditions of ancient oceans and atmosphere, of ancient rain and heat and cold and wind, of sunlight and darkness, of the passage of individual living beings and of entire species. Sources of continuity with the past as well as the then present. My first electronic synthesis - creating and putting signals through modular home-made circuitry built from these same kinds of components. 13, April 1, 1991, p. 9: "People and Positions", Reauthorization of the Clean Water Act: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Clean Water, Fisheries, and Wildlife of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, on S. 1114 ... S. 1302 ... June 16, 23; July 1, 14, 27; August 4, 5; and September 15, 1993 (1994), 1994 River Conservation Directory (U.S. Dept. ALL IMAGES, MUSIC, WRITTEN CONTENT, AND WEB SITE DESIGN COPYRIGHT © 2016 NED LAGIN. Ironically, some of the Seastones tapes were lost in the flood of 1982 in northern California. The Eu analog system was large enough to input audio and control signals from the other musician's instruments, and vocal and percussion microphones. This album, not a re-issue, presents most but not all of the composition as originally composed but never released or heard before. "True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time." Lagin's photographic, sand drawing, and painting collections and artist's books, spanning 1981–2017, include: Our Love, Metaphysics, Light in the Silence, Artifacts of Desire, Reflections of Solitude, and Light Time Geographies. Spiritcats.com is the official website of Ned Lagin, his photography, art, writing, and music, including playing with the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia and others, his electronic music composition Seastones, and personal reflections on individual creativity, art, pictures, self portraits, erotica, and the natural history of electronic media world presence. Electronic sound and music synthesis and processing began for me as shaping electricity. According to the notes, John Cipollina, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Ned Lagin, David Crosby & Bill Kreutzmann are listed as playing - so, no Garcia or Keith. Ephemeral existence. Podcast 341: Ned Lagin (Part II) In this second of two interview sessions, we talk with Ned Lagin about the compositional process behind his work (including echoes of Renaissance music), his Seastones collaborators, the ups and downs of the Seastones release(s) and his subsequent technical career. The new release of Seastones in now available in our online store. associated with, or created by, the earth oscillating with cycles of fractions of seconds, seconds, minutes, hours, and some much longer. Mostly my own words but having literary and music influences from many sources. I sometimes replaced the galena crystal with different minerals. Ned Lagin and Phil Lesh Seastones Marquee read "Lesh & Lagin Electronic Space Music" Related Music (Beta) question-dark. And some stories that have galactic themes. A surprising and wide-ranging conversation with Ned Lagin, the pioneering jazz-trained electronic composer whose friendship with the Grateful Dead began when the band crowded into his M.I.T. "Seastones" is the only album that has been released from electronic music composer Ned Lagin. I learned that my radio's circuit components were made originally from minerals, or materials derived from minerals or other naturally occurring materials. At all, but you are the music.â - T. S. Eliot. Each one different, with its own shape, and color, composition, and surface texture. One musician's instrument or voice (sound and words) modulating or otherwise affecting the sound of other musiciansâ instruments and voices. And some from nature and biology, and from other creatures; music as something shared with other forms of life - other sensing beings' perspectives, their concepts of place and time, self and presence. 441. And Ned Lagin helps make the Playin' one of the spaciest and most interesting of 1974. The surviving Seastones tapes were transferred to digital media in 2005 and were restored and re-mixed by me between 2005 and 2017. This list is thought to be accurate but remains incomplete. Words as fields. Reviewer: samson - favorite favorite favorite favorite - April 16, 2004 Subject: Eyes . These became sources of modulation that are the imprints, the musical touch and articulation, personality and presence of each musician. He was deeply influenced by the jazz world in New York City, particularly pianist Bill Evans,[6] who he met in Boston and saw perform many times in New York and Boston in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Playing and collectively improvising within composed musical structures. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. From his Notes: "when you look at a picture circuitry made from some of these components one could receive (be in tune, syntonic with) signals within a sea of electromagnetic fields. Ned Lagin (born March 17, 1948) is an American artist, photographer, scientist, composer, and keyboardist.. Lagin is considered a pioneer in the development and use of minicomputers and personal computers in real-time stage and studio music composition and performance. Creating, listening to a set of moment forms creates a world line in Seastones musical spacetime. Another set of CDâs/digital downloads to be released later will complete Seastones and include the planned Round Records and carried over to United Artists second Seastones album âMake a Cat Laughâ based partly on the March 17, 1975 Seastones studio session, other 1975 studio recording sessions, live performance accreted forms, and the few remaining original Seastones core forms not included in this present release. A listener can choose one or more, or all, of the eighty-three moment forms (tracks) in any desired order to make a set, a personal individual listening experience. polysemic assemblage through multitrack recording, different kinds of time and the micro/macro time continuum of rhythm and tone, immersive spatial sound and the Seastones is an open form mobile composition of compositions (moment forms), and a improvisational performance form. **Black Vinyl** Ned Lagin's Seastones is a pioneering electronic composition interweaving metaphors from nature, science, art and music and the origins of music. - Rachel Carson. Description: A searchable archive of Grateful Dead set lists. The physicality and sensuality of sound vibrations - sensory fields with harmonics of feelings and meanings. Words with reverberations, with harmonics of feelings, meaning(s). Lagin received a degree in molecular biology and humanities from MIT in 1971, where he studied with John Harbison, Gregory Tucker, David Epstein, Noam Chomsky, Gian-Carlo Rota, Salvador Luria, and Jerome Lettvin. This new release uses original audio tracks and original processing of tracks that could not be used before because of layers of hiss and noise. The first use made by me of computers for Seastones music synthesis was with an Interdata Model 1 minicomputer (MIT). the picture looks at you". - T. S. Eliot, "For all at last returns to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, the everflowing We are biology, and geology, chemistry, physics, cosmology. Conversations with the Dead, The Grateful Dead Interview Book, Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2002. pp. The tracks have been re-named (and re-numbered) from their originals for listener ease, and are not indicative of compositional history or listening order. (I think this session is also duplicated on our 3/17/75 tape, everything from track 11 to the end; almost all of which is clearly just Weir & Crosby on guitars. 343–389. 19 and 29, Relix, Volume 18, No.3, page 31 ("Summer Issue"): Ned Lagin – An Interview with Nick Skidmore, "Collegiate Jazz Festival 1969" program, Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival, March 14 and 15, 1969, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. 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. Playing and improvising on the piano when I was young, I evolved my own ideas about individual musical moments as forms. The Deadhead's Taping Compendium, Volume II: An In-Depth Guide to the Music of the Grateful Dead on Tape, 1975–1985 – by Michael M. Getz, John R. Dwork, Henry Holt and Company, New York; 1st edition (August 2, 1999). Ned Lagin: Cat Dreams Jesse Jarnow on August 31, 2017 Whether one has been waiting 40 years for Ned Lagin to follow up his 1975 debut or not, … All rights reserved. These occurred in the years between 1970 to 1975. Beginning in 1974, I used an Interdata 7/16 minicomputer and a customized Eu Modular Analog Synthesizer, creating a software-scanned polyphonic keyboard and hybrid computer-controlled instrument. The original version of the piece was released in 1975 on The Grateful Dead's sub-label Round Records. The Seastones vocals and sung words were written over four years. Ned Lagin (born March 17, 1948) is an American artist, photographer, scientist, composer, and keyboardist.. Lagin is considered a pioneer in the development and use of minicomputers and personal computers in real-time stage and studio music composition and performance. And from the wild sea stones, each with its individual presence and resonance, I am reminded of some things I think are very important: - We live within and not separate from all the things we perceive: clouds, surf, the green and yellow beach grasses, the small wavelets of water disappearing into the beach sand, and the wild sea stones. Star dust becomes life, desire, love, spirit. Grateful Dead Live at Ace's (SNACK Rehearsal) on 1975-03-17 (March 17, 1975). A new, two-CD album of Seastones was released on March 8, 2018. The moment form selection process can be by personal preference, or some numerical, chance, or other process. Ned Lagin (born March 17, 1948) is an American artist, photographer, scientist, composer, and keyboardist. Voices and instruments integrated into one sound world creating a continuum between spoken and sung language and music and sound, and establishing continual metamorphoses of one into the other. [3], The March 17, 1975 cancelled Grateful Dead studio session became a Seastones session with Crosby and included "Ned's Birthday Jam."[14][15]. Ned Lagin is legendary. Seastones 16 clip (2:58) Science and technology changing our views of the world, with new perspectives and perceptions. I am grateful to Bubba Ayoub for permission to share his mesmerizing ambient/noise Grateful Dead remix album.Ayoub is a modular synthesizer performer and builder, and a lightshow artist. Imprints that could be used to further process their own audio, and imprints that could be used to modulate or otherwise control audio signal processing and synthesis of other musiciansâ sound. The stones always seem to contain stories I need to see and read and hear. Our bodies are made of elements that once were (and will be again) in the bodies of other organisms, and in rocks, in streams, in plants, and in the oceans and in the sky, and originally came from the stars. science, especially electronics, chemistry, and biology. Like real seastones, the Seastones moment forms are each a placetime, a time island, a droplet of time. Possibly there's a date mixup. Lagin's images, as single photographs and paintings, and in compositions of multiple images, include nature, landscapes, sand drawings, nudes, erotica, and self-portraits. Word (literary) textual resonances becoming deep electronic sound. Seastones was composed over the course of more than five years and spans the period from analog magnetic tape composition and electronic synthesis to the beginnings of digital audio synthesis and control. Seastones 71 clip (:28), ------------------------------------------------------------. This edition includes most but not all of the original studio (core) forms, and some of those moment forms generated from live performances (1972-1975) and accreted Stories about origins (igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary), about journeys down rivers eroding ancient mountains with their forests, journeys to far away beaches. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin." A new, two CD album of Seastones was released on March 8, 2018. For this release, Seastones was re-mixed and re-mastered in stereo. Far more consonant than the often harsh bio-music of Seastones—released by the Grateful Dead’s Round Records and co-credited to Phil Lesh—Cat Dreams reveals a musician at play. They are composed and synthesized and skeletal improvisational forms. Combining and transforming fragments, atomization of words and sentences, poetic compression . Sung and spoken words and lyrics performed through a network of synthesis and processing hardware modulated by the instruments and the voices of others musicians (both heard and unheard). Perhaps 45 years after its original release and having been presented in several different ways previously (included a 2 CD set with 111 parts), finally Ned Lagin’s Seastones found itself sequenced and presented in what feels like its most satisfying 18 part 50 minute form. ** Limited Blue Translucent Vinyl ** Ned Lagin's Seastones is a pioneering electronic composition interweaving metaphors from nature, science, art and music and the origins of music. From childhood and continuing through to the beginning of college, photography was for him part of being an amateur naturalist and scientist. Here are a few recently found survivors: Seastones moment form compositions are individual, independent forms. into the composition. I learned to see all the seastones and the seashore as a composite universe of individual moments seen and heard and felt all at once, a whole, felt-all-at-once mosaic of individual timescapes. articulation of form in space, and the interconnection and modulation of ensemble musicians. In a very primitive fashion it was used to generate some of the first Seastones basic source audio: collections of pitches and scales (like a historic one bit monochord), and pseudo-random pitches and noise. Seastones 42 clip (:19) How sound touches. The other musicians performing on Cat Dreams: Lagin has served in Novato, California[22] and Marin County government: Planning Commission, Downtown Plan Committee Chairperson,[23] Economic Development Commission, Tree Task Force, Marin Conservation League Board of Directors,[24] Marin County Flood Control Advisory Board, and chairperson for the Warner Creek Committee.[3][25]. Copyright 2017 Ned Lagin. Ned Lagin's Seastones is a pioneering electronic composition interweaving metaphors from nature, science, art and music and the origins of music. Tuning was accomplished by finding a place ("sweet spot") on the mineral (galena) crystal surface with the little wire (called a "cat's whisker") connected to the tuning coil and antenna, and sometimes other homemade components. I've had the second set for a while now and the Eyes into Big River still blows me away. The length of the antenna (it looked like a big long piano string) and the tuning circuit determined the signals, stations, places, atmospheric and cosmic sounds one could receive. dorm room to jam and would encompass contributions to American Beauty and Wake of the Flood, nearly 20 onstage appearances with the band between 1970 and 1975, and Lagin’s own Seastones project, … Interweaving musical technologies with sound art, science, linguistics, philosophy, and early music, Seastones is comprised of pieces that are dynamic, rich and deep. Growing up, Lagin was influenced by classical and jazz music, and the modern music and art cultures of New York City in the 1960s. The technology used for this release, with the exception of software noise removal, was limited to that available at the time of the original recording, or software versions emulating the studio processing capabilities of the time available to me. Completed in 2016, Cat Dreams[21] is Ned Lagin's first music CD, and first public music, since 1975. First in small, medium (6x6cm, 6x7cm), and large (4x5) format film photography (using 1928 and 1950's Speed Graphic cameras), and subsequently using film scanners and Photoshop (1992), and digital cameras (2003). Playing music is about creating feelings and meanings in (other) creatures. - Lao Tzu, âThe earth has music for those who listen.â - George Santayana, âMusic heard so deeply that it is not heard Ned Lagin: Seastones Set 4 and Set 5. And additionally, some forming concepts for composing, playing, and improvising: modular mobile moment forms with no one temporal sequence, polymorphic and All becoming part of the imagination of the composer, all becoming present in new forms, processes, and means of expression. [2][3], Lagin began photography at the age of five, first with a Baby Brownie camera, and subsequently with other small format cameras. He completed a symphony, a string quartet, jazz big band pieces, and electronic pieces before dropping out and permanently relocating to the Bay Area. Their instinctive innate eco-syntonic music(s) and forms of sound and musical induction, entrainment, and entanglement. With electronic And aesthetic ideas inherent in 20th century visual arts, literature, and music. processes, mathematics, physics and quantum mechanics, language and linguistic structure, and different forms and perspectives from pictorial (and abstract) visual art stream of time, the beginning and the end." 13, Issue 31, August 5, 1991, p. 8: "Wireless Bridge Connects Macs", Network World, Vol. And a variety of His creation of sand drawings and multi-image forms to create "fields of meaning(s)" was influenced by the rock art and imagery (petroglyphs, pictographs) of Native Americans, Australian Aboriginals, and prehistoric Europeans. - The world, the universe, is still being made and we, our bodies and minds, are part of nature, of the world, of the universe. naturally occurring radio emissions, electromagnetic signals produced by several processes of nature - geologic, atmospheric, oceanic and other phenomena. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Seastones is an album by American composer and musician Ned Lagin.. The composition of Seastones encompassed a time (1970 and before) when the world was filled with the promise of new ideas and a hopeful and positive future. Ned Lagin interview with David Gans, August 2001 in: Gans, David. In early 1975, an Altair 8800, the first "home computer", was added. - e e cummings. Seastones is a collection of pre-compositional philosophies (reflection and spontaneity, formalism and intuitionism, composition and improvisation) and the electronic music compositional practices and technologies of the time: musique concrete and magnetic tape composition (the cutting up and assembly of many small pieces of tape); analog additive, subtractive, FM synthesis; digital, hybrid analog-computer control; sequencer; mathematical, stochastic, aleatoric, noise, random, generative. Download this monster show now. And the contrasting worlds of current affairs, the historical and personal realities of war (Vietnam), fears of nuclear holocaust, and social change. As much about being felt as about being heard. Seastones release presents most but not all of composition as originally composed. The minicomputer had 16k magnetic core memory, a teletype electro-mechanical keyboard and paper tape reader, and was programmed in assembly language and machine code. During the set breaks of 23 Grateful Dead shows between June and October … [8][9], In early 1970, Lagin initiated a correspondence with Jerry Garcia after seeing the Grateful Dead at the Boston Tea Party in 1969. Originally composed and planned for a two CD release, Cat Dreams is the first of the two CDs that comprise the full suite of compositions. In the autumn of 1971, Lagin began graduate study in composition as an Irving Fine Fellow at Brandeis University, where he studied with Josh Rifkin and Seymour Shifrin. Seastones 57 clip (2:35) Additionally, Lagin has written a collection of writings titled Notes about art, metaphysics, natural history, photography, pictures and "the natural history of picture world". [1][2], Ned Lagin was born in New York City and raised on Long Island in Roslyn Heights, New York. Some are just one mineral, some made of many; some are crystalline; some magnetic; some meteorites from the birth of the this solar system or the universe; some contain fossils of ancient lives and little life form's, their stories imprinted. The original version of the piece was released in 1975 on The Grateful Dead's sub-label Round Records. There is no one beginning, middle, or end. "Mini Helps 'Grateful Dead' Compose Rock", Computerworld, August 13, 1975, page 33, "Dead Go To Computerized Synthesizer", Billboard, September 6, 1975, pp. Additionally, the system provided (voltage) speed control of rotary speakers, and customized Echoplex, four- and sixteen- track tape machines. of the Interior, National Park Service, Rivers and Trails Conservation Assistance, 1994), Ned Lagin interview with David Gans on KPFA, February 3, 2001, "Seastones" album description from Rykodisc online catalog, August 14–15, 1971 Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, CA—Ned Lagin, Macworld, Volume 3, PC World Communications, 1986, "City of Novato – Downtown Specific Plan: Preface by Chair", History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice), Ladies and Gentlemen... the Grateful Dead, Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72, Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings, Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings, Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, CA 4/18/70, 30 Trips Around the Sun: The Definitive Live Story 1965–1995, Shrine Exposition Hall, Los Angeles, CA 11/10/1967, July 29 1966, P.N.E. Also includes forums, essays, surveys, tapers corner, and links to other Grateful Dead related websites. Ned Lagin (born March 17, 1948) is an American artist, photographer, scientist, composer, and keyboardist. When I was seven I had a crystal radio set, with a galena mineral crystal for signal detection, a wire coil for tuning, and a long wire antenna outside my upstairs bedroom window stretching about 30 feet to a tree across our backyard. Instead, Seastones is composed as an âemergent wholeâ of different collections and orderings or sequences, of the constituent moment forms. I suspect he is also the world’s leading expert on/appreciator of the Phil Lesh/Ned Lagin “Seastones” project from the mid-1970s, which contributes to this remix album. That continuum is electricity, electromagnetism. does not precede CD 2. 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