Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Glenn Gould on "vacuum cleaner music"

Mike Springer from openculture.com posted a very interesting interview with Gould from 1969, in which he discusses the future of musical reproduction and his experiments in counterpoint with household appliances, instruments and human voice.

The recent Gould re-releases on Sony include expanded recordings of some of his greatest and most original work, including Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 & 7 (BWV 1052-1056 & 1058) with Leonard Bernstein and Vladimir Golschmann conducting the Columbia Symphony Orchestra.