[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by csb

Sorry David I didn't find that sample from Top n Eastly entertaining nor interesting. No tune, no rhythm just some noises from musical instruments (possibly?) with the noise of a running creek as background. Perhaps it is musical sculpture.

Do you, yourself, listen to it as music or a kind of ambient background?

Did anyone else like it?

I really enjoy The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony by Dave Greenslade - but not much else of his work.

It probably wasn't a good segue from the OP. I was just reminded of the album's title and its self-playing 'instruments'. I did say it was very much in the ambient domain so the lack of tune and rhythm shouldn't have been a surprise. (BTW The hydrophone is activated by running water.)

I do listen to ambient soundscape sort of stuff a bit - generally as a wind down at the end of the night or to cover some objectionable noise. I sometimes play it through my noise cancelling headphones when working in the instrument room as it takes the edge of the drone of the vacuum pumps (the noise of which is only dampened by the headphones) while not demanding my attention. Similarly I have used it to cover traffic noise while observing and the former neighbour's late night parties.

I bought the album in the mid 70s when I bought a lot of stuff because it was different. It never spent much time on the turntable but certainly more than 'Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv'. I haven't played it since perhaps the 80's as I don't have an electronic copy and I've only recently got my turntable going again. So my memory is a bit vague but I think the issue is that it is just a relatively brief sample of a few types of instrument. Perhaps more of a sampler of the type of installation a person may put in (or outside) their house. If I can find the occasion I'll have a listen soon.