Musica Elettronica Viva - SpacecraftVinyl LP pressing. Musica Elettronica Viva, or MEV for short, was formed in 1966 in Rome by Allan Bryant, Alvin Curran, Jon Phetteplace, Carol Plantamura, Frederic Rzweski, Richard Teitelbaum and Ivan Vandor. From the very beginning the group was based on musical freedom and the shunning of convention. Using contact microphones to record and manipulate sound wherever it could be found from box springs to vibrators and improvisationally combining those

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My writing for this 24-piece jazz orchestra combines elements of both large ensemble jazz with free-swinging improvisation and symphonic colors and textures

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Fabio Bidini is the ideal collaborator

creating a release as bewitching and intense as it is atmospherically resonant

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composed in Venice in 1641

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