Sonic Seasonings

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Sonic Seasonings
Sonic Seasonings cover
Double album by Wendy Carlos
Released 1972
1998 (CD reissue)
Genre Ambient, Experimental
Length 86:02
131:15 (1998 reissue)
Label Columbia Records
East Side Digital (1998 reissue)
Professional reviews
Wendy Carlos chronology
The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
(1970)
Sonic Seasonings
(1972)
A Clockwork Orange
(1972)


Sonic Seasonings is the third album by synthesizer pioneer Wendy Carlos, which was released in 1972. Each side of the double LP was a single piece which was a musing on each of the seasons.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side A

  1. "Spring" – 22:28

[edit] Side B

  1. "Summer" – 21:44

[edit] Side C

  1. "Fall" – 21:09

[edit] Side D

  1. "Winter" – 20:41

[edit] 1998 reissue

East Side Digital reissued Sonic Seasonings in 1998 as a double-CD, with the original 4 compositions, plus outtakes and some other "natural" recordings which were originally released in 1986's Land of the Midnight Sun.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one

  1. "Spring" – 22:28
  2. "Summer" – 21:44
  3. "Fall" – 21:09

[edit] Disc two

  1. "Winter" – 20:41
  2. "Winter (Outtake)" – 5:21
  3. "Aurora Borealis" – 19:55
  4. "Midnight Sun" – 19:57