The Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music [Collector's Choice] (1975)

About this title: It's strange in the 21st century to think of Beaver & Krause's debut album as being the Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music -- an instructional recording on how the then-new Moog synthesizer could be used. Originally issued as a double album, it contained 68 short tracks over four sides; not bad considering the entire thing is only 48-minutes long. To hear these pieces in the current age is a bit of a wonder. The reason being of course, that it is the sound of the Moog itself without accompaniment or as an atmospheric instrument used to enhance other instruments in songs. Instead, these two ... read more

Tracks:

1. Peace Three
2. Signal Generators: Sine Waveform: Slow-Motion Audible Example
3. Sine Waveform: Composition
4. Sine Waveform: Harmonic Synthesis
5. Sine Waveform: Non-Harmonic Synthesis
6. Sawtooth Waveform: Slow-Motion (Neg and Pos-Going)
7. Sawtooth Waveform: Composition
8. Rectangular Waveforms: Slow-Motion Audible Example (1/8-1/2)
9. Rectangular Waveforms: Composition (Using 1/8, 1/7, 1/3, 1/2)
10. Triangular Waveform: Slow-Motion Audible Example
11. Triangular Waveform: Composition
12. White Sound Composition
13. Control Generators: Transient Generator, Amplitude, Frequency and ...
14. Sequential Voltage Sources, Composition
15. Frequency Modulation: Keyboard Control: 12 Tone
16. Quarter-Tone (One Real Octave = 2 Keyboard Octaves)
17. Ditone (Four Real Octaves Played in Keyboard Range of One Octave)
18. [Untitled Track]
19. Portamento: Ribbon Control
20. Periodic: Vibrato (S) (Speed Increases as Pitch Rises)
21. Periodic: Sine-Higher Frequency
22. Periodic: Sawtooth-Swept
23. Periodic: Rectangular 1/2 - Swept (L2)
24. Periodic: Triangular - Swept
25. Periodic Combined: 3 Square Waves at Different Frequencies
26. Periodic Combined: 3 Triangular Waves at Different Frequencies
27. Periodic Combined: 4 Different Waveforms (2L), (2N), (2V), (2S) At ...
28. White Sound
29. Transient: Up an Octave, Back to Pitch
30. Transient: Up a 3rd, Back to Pitch
31. Transient: Down an Octave, Back to Pitch
32. Transient: Down a 3rd, Back to Pitch
33. Amplitude Modulation: Keyboard
34. Ribbon Controller
35. Periodic: Tremolo
36. Periodic: Sine - Higher Frequencies (S Sweeping S)
37. Periodic: Sawtooth (Neg-Pos - Going Swept)
38. Periodic: Rectangular (L2) Swept
39. Periodic: Triangular - Swept
40. Periodics Combined: 4 Square
41. Periodics Combined: 3 Triangular
42. Periodics Combined: 4 Different (S), (N), (L2), (V)
43. White Sound
44. Transient: Slow
45. Transient: With Rising Pitch
46. Transient: (Graphic Jagged Lines)
47. Ring Modulation: Sine Waves: Series of Sub-Audible Constants
48. Sine Waves: Tune in Parallel
49. Sine Waves: Tuned in Opposite Direction
50. Sine Waves: Sawtooth
51. Sine Waves: Rectangular (L2)
52. Filtering: White Sound - With Fixed Filters Selected 3rd Octave
53. White Sound - Tuned Filters: Broad
54. White Sound - Tuned Filters: Sharp
55. Low-Frequency Sawtooth - Tuning Through Harmonics

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.