WCBN-FM — Playlist: Horizons

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Although the name Michael Czajkowski is virtually unknown outside of certain academic music circles, his “People The Sky” album was an advance reconnaissance into the burgeoning synthesizer scene of the late sixties. Ignorance of his work is understandable, as his entire back catalogue, comprised of just this one solo album plus session work on Buffy Sainte-Marie’s “Illuminations” album, are but a pair of tiny blips in the universe of recorded electronic music. But the sounds and emotions he conjured up on these two albums were daring and exquisitely handled non-linear excursions rendered in a newly-discovered language that had only recently been invented. One cannot attempt to recount the story of Czajkowski without that of avant-garde composer Morton Subotnick, folk rock star Buffy-Sainte Marie and one of the earliest electronic keyboards, the Buchla synthesizer that linked them together without at least a cursory overview of the events that led to these pioneers and that unique musical apparatus crossing paths during their artistic pursuits of the late sixties.

Time	Artist	Song Title	Album	Label	Year
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6:01 pm	conlon nancarrow	study for player piano nos 46 47	the complete studies for player paino
6:12 pm	ivan wyschnegradsky	Transparence I for martenot waves and for two quartertone pianos 1953
6:21 pm	michael czajkowski	people the sky 1969
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