Sonic Seasonings

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sonic Seasonings
Studio album by Wendy Carlos
Released 1972
1998 (CD reissue)
Genre Ambient, Experimental, New Age
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. It was was released in 1972. Each side of the double LP was a single piece which was a musing on each of the seasons. The compositions combined music with sound effects, such as rushing wind ("Fall"), birdsong ("Spring"), and insect noises ("Summer"). In her liner notes for the 1998 Compact Disc reissue, Carlos explained that the music "was intended to work on a timbral and experiential level", as part of "a third, viable alternative to acoustic and musical environmental presentations".[1]

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 four 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