When the musician and artist Paul Purgas was invited in 2017 by the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India, to play some of the music he’d found in its archives that year, he was initially very keen. These were tapes that had been hidden from the public for decades; they proved the existence of a fertile avenue for electronic music in 1960s and ’70s India, and he was determined for people to hear them.
What the recordings demonstrate, Purgas said, is “electronic sound and music existing free from any baggage,” away from “any vestiges of what could be conceived as a kind of Western continuum.”
It seems to be into more of a soundscape or very mono track compositions and I can't tell if that's a limitation of the synthesizer or the style they were working with.
It seems to be into more of a soundscape or very mono track compositions and I can't tell if that's a limitation of the synthesizer or the style they were working with.
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It seems to be into more of a soundscape or very mono track compositions and I can't tell if that's a limitation of the synthesizer or the style they were working with.