A lost collection of home studio tape manipulations and VCS3 synthesizer experiments from the unsung Australian composer Val Stephen. A practising medical anaesthetist turned electronic music innovator, Stephen’s study of tape music originates back as early as the 1950s. Throughout the following decades he created a remarkable personal archive of uncharted electronic compositions and experimental music sketches using a range of resourceful tools and pioneering techniques. With only two of his compositions ever published (Folkways – Electronic Music. 1967) ABSTRACTUM is a look into the previously undocumented world of this silent innovator. A hallucinogenic hybrid of sedated synthesis & primordial Musique Concrete that will appeal to those interested in experimental music such as Basil Kirchin’s Worlds Within Worlds and Pierre Henry’s Le Voyage.

• A lost collection of home studio tape manipulations and VCS3 synthesizer experiments.
• A hallucinogenic hybrid of sedated synthesis & primordial Musique Concrete.
• For those interested in experimental music such as Basil Kirchin’s Worlds Within Worlds and Pierre Henry’s Le Voyage.

TRACKLIST

SIDE I

1. Rhythmic Jungle
2. Rhythm Alternate
3. Untitled I
4. Untitled II
5. Untitled III
6. Abstractum

SIDE II

1. Echovessence
2. Music For An Imaginary TV Ballet