Innerspace soundtrack allmusic5/20/2023 Like many visionaries, Scott foreshadowed the future. He could compose, arrange, perform, improvise and edit, but given a shelf of hardware and a soldering iron, he could also rig an appliance to further his musical aims. Scott was a highly qualified engineer who also happened to be a conservatory-trained (Juilliard) musician. This makeshift compound remained Scott’s workspace and bedroom until 1971, when he decamped for L.A. He installed equipment and machines, and used them to build new equipment and machines. He twirled knobs, flipped switches, and took notes. He operated a musical lab - researching, experimenting, testing, and measuring. Following his 1965 marital breakup, Scott set up shop at WPC. Willow Park Center was an industrial rental complex of offices and warehouses in a Long Island suburb. Three Willow Park presents the next stage in assuring Scott’s place in electronic music history. MRI also presented some of the earliest TV & radio commercials to feature electronic music, as well as early film soundtrack collaborations with Jim Henson. In 2000, Basta issued Manhattan Research Inc., a 2-cd set of 69 tracks recorded 1953–69, spotlighting Scott’s groundbreaking electronica - a gallery of strange sounds seemingly beamed down from UFOs. Three Willow Park reveals that Scott was producing beat-oriented proto-techno before the 1970s explosion of electronic music and rhythms on the pop charts, a significant achievement that should not be overlooked. The album contains 61 previously unissued gems, many featuring hypnotic rhythm tracks played by Scott’s Electronium - an invention which composed and performed using programmed intelligence. Three Willow Park: Electronic Music from Inner Space, 1961–1971, now available from Basta, represents the second anthology of pioneering electronica by Raymond Scott. THREE WILLOW PARK: Electronic Music from Inner Space, 1961-1971
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