; Ned’s Apt., Fairfax, CA, Engineering (1974-5): Betty Cantor, Bob Matthews, Bill Wolf, Additional Engineering (1975-7): Bear, Ned Lagin, Computer Interfacing and Software: Scott Wedge and Ned Lagin, Mix-down Studio (1975): His Master's Wheels, San Francisco, CA, Mastering (1975): Artisan Sound Recorders, Hollywood, CA, Digital Conversion (2005): Fantasy Records, Berkeley, CA, Mix-down Studio (2007-2017): Ned's laptop, Novato, CA, Additional Engineering (2012): Celso Alberti, Package Production (2017): Brad Starks and Loopy, Special Thanks (1975): Ruth Poland, Andy Moorer, Dan Healey, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Behren Reeves and Interdata, Inc., Scott Wedge and Eu Systems, Darrell Johnson, Ramrod, Joe Winslow, and The Grateful Dead, Special Thanks (2017): g, ty, n, bb, s, te, Photo of wild sea stones: Ned Lagin From his Notes: "when you look at a picture Some of the moment form compositions are an individual, some are related. - George Santayana, "Music heard so deeply that it is not heard [2], From 1970 to 1975, Lagin sat in on Hammond B3 organ, electric piano, and clavichord during long instrumental passages at several Grateful Dead concerts. [2][3], Lagin began photography at the age of five, first with a Baby Brownie camera, and subsequently with other small format cameras. I learned to see all the seastones and the seashore as a composite universe of individual moments seen and heard and felt all at once, a whole, felt-all-at-once mosaic of individual timescapes. This list is thought to be accurate but remains incomplete. Reviewer: samson - favorite favorite favorite favorite - April 16, 2004 Subject: Eyes . The wild sea stones reaffirm both the mystical connectedness and the solitary ephemeral presence of all things. Podcast 341: Ned Lagin (Part II) In this second of two interview sessions, we talk with Ned Lagin about the compositional process behind his work (including echoes of Renaissance music), his Seastones collaborators, the ups and downs of the Seastones release(s) and his subsequent technical career. Growing up, Lagin was influenced by classical and jazz music, and the modern music and art cultures of New York City in the 1960s. Ned Lagin (born March 17, 1948) is an American artist, photographer, scientist, composer, and keyboardist.. Lagin is considered a pioneer in the development and use of minicomputers and personal computers in real-time stage and studio music composition and performance. Small software programs were created to implement the polyphonic Eu keyboard, to change synthesizer patches, settings on external instruments and voices, ensemble Ned Lagin (born March 17, 1948) is an American artist, photographer, scientist, composer, and keyboardist.. Lagin is considered a pioneer in the development and use of minicomputers and personal computers in real-time stage and studio music composition and performance. The Altair was used for rhythm synthesis and sequencing, and to generate digital sequences and noise, and simple tone synthesis. Combining and transforming fragments, atomization of words and sentences, poetic compression . dorm room to jam and would encompass contributions to American Beauty and Wake of the Flood, nearly 20 onstage appearances with the band between 1970 and 1975, and Lagin’s own Seastones project, … A surprising and wide-ranging conversation with Ned Lagin, the pioneering jazz-trained electronic composer whose friendship with the Grateful Dead began when the band crowded into his M.I.T. Interweaving multiple individual musical identities within an interconnected group. He completed a symphony, a string quartet, jazz big band pieces, and electronic pieces before dropping out and permanently relocating to the Bay Area. Ned Lagin: Seastones Set 4 and Set 5. Garden Aud., Vancouver Canada, Robert F. 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I listened at times to two (or more) stations or signals playing different sounds or voices or music intermodulating one another, electromagnetic collage and superposition. I've had the second set for a while now and the Eyes into Big River still blows me away. And with a few changes, and a source of energy, circuits of these same or similar components could be used to create oscillations; amplify, filter, mix or otherwise combine signals; and generate and transmit signals as electromagnetic fields. processes, mathematics, physics and quantum mechanics, language and linguistic structure, and different forms and perspectives from pictorial (and abstract) visual art Additionally, the system provided (voltage) speed control of rotary speakers, and customized Echoplex, four- and sixteen- track tape machines. You can also read listener reviews. - Life moves through moments of form, and beauty can come from a collection of carefully selected (or crafted) moments perceived not as a linear sequence or progression alone, in which the present moment is the consequence of the previous one and the prelude of the coming one, but perceived all at once, shimmering and alive with movement and energy, outside the illusion of a linear and continuous flow of time. And from the wild sea stones, each with its individual presence and resonance, I am reminded of some things I think are very important: - We live within and not separate from all the things we perceive: clouds, surf, the green and yellow beach grasses, the small wavelets of water disappearing into the beach sand, and the wild sea stones. From childhood and continuing through to the beginning of college, photography was for him part of being an amateur naturalist and scientist. The Deadhead's Taping Compendium, Volume II: An In-Depth Guide to the Music of the Grateful Dead on Tape, 1975–1985 – by Michael M. Getz, John R. Dwork, Henry Holt and Company, New York; 1st edition (August 2, 1999). Words with layered metamorphic sedimented meanings and connections. [3], The March 17, 1975 cancelled Grateful Dead studio session became a Seastones session with Crosby and included "Ned's Birthday Jam."[14][15]. We are biology, and geology, chemistry, physics, cosmology. And some stories that have galactic themes. Lagin's images, as single photographs and paintings, and in compositions of multiple images, include nature, landscapes, sand drawings, nudes, erotica, and self-portraits. This album, not a re-issue, presents most but not all of the composition as originally composed but never released or heard before. Description: A searchable archive of Grateful Dead set lists. the picture looks at you". Douglas Kahn, "Between a Bach and a Bard Place: Productive Constraint in Early Computer Arts" in MediaArtHistories, edited by Oliver Grau, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2010. pg. The moment form selection process can be by personal preference, or some numerical, chance, or other process. And Ned Lagin helps make the Playin' one of the spaciest and most interesting of 1974. [4][5], He is known for his electronic music composition Seastones, for performing with the Grateful Dead, and for his photography and art. And a variety of The first use made by me of computers for Seastones music synthesis was with an Interdata Model 1 minicomputer (MIT). Electronic sound and music synthesis and processing began for me as shaping electricity. ; Bob Weir's Studio, Mill Valley, CA; Brandeis University Electronic Music Studio, Waltham, Mass. Words as waves - the diffraction, refraction, reflection of words. Words as molecules of sound - vibrating and resonating. Sung and spoken words and lyrics performed through a network of synthesis and processing hardware modulated by the instruments and the voices of others musicians (both heard and unheard). The Seastones vocals and sung words were written over four years. Growing up, Lagin was influenced by classical and jazz music, and the modern music and art cultures of New York City in the 1960s. As of this date, Ned is single. Additional Mastering (2017): Ned Lagin Package Production (2017): Brad Starks and Loopy Special Thanks (1975): Ruth Poland, Andy Moorer, Dan Healey, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Behren Reeves and Interdata, Inc., Scott Wedge and Eu Systems, Darrell Johnson, Ramrod, Joe … Star dust becomes life, desire, love, spirit. The minicomputer had 16k magnetic core memory, a teletype electro-mechanical keyboard and paper tape reader, and was programmed in assembly language and machine code. Some are metaphoric abstracted forms derived from geology and natural history and paleontology, electronics and electricity, organic and biochemical synthesis, physical Playing and improvising on the piano when I was young, I evolved my own ideas about individual musical moments as forms. Instead, Seastones is composed as an “emergent whole” of different collections and orderings or sequences, of the constituent moment forms. With electronic I sometimes replaced the galena crystal with different minerals. Word (literary) textual resonances becoming deep electronic sound. At all, but you are the music.” - T. S. Eliot. Ned's annual salary is between $100 - 149,999; properties and other assets push Ned's net worth over $250,000 - … "Mini Helps 'Grateful Dead' Compose Rock", Computerworld, August 13, 1975, page 33, "Dead Go To Computerized Synthesizer", Billboard, September 6, 1975, pp. I am grateful to Bubba Ayoub for permission to share his mesmerizing ambient/noise Grateful Dead remix album.Ayoub is a modular synthesizer performer and builder, and a lightshow artist. - e e cummings. In 1975 Lagin released the quadraphonic album of electronic music, (composed between 1970–1974), a small part of the complete Seastones composition, on Round Records and then United Artists Records. Spiritcats.com is the official website of Ned Lagin, his photography, art, writing, and music, including playing with the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia and others, his electronic music composition Seastones, and personal reflections on individual creativity, art, pictures, self portraits, erotica, and the natural history of electronic media world presence. In May 1970, he helped facilitate a concert and free live outdoor performance featuring the band at MIT that coincided with the Kent State shootings. creating a set or collection, a listener can mix the selection of moment forms from either or both CDs; the two CDs do not represent any preferred orderings, and CD 1 Published by Ned Lagin, Ned Lagin: piano, clavichord, organ, prepared piano, electric piano, percussion, voice, synthesizers*, computers**, electronics***, Jerry Garcia: electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, voice, David Crosby: electric 12-string guitar, voice, * Eu Modular Synthesizer, Arp 2500, Arp 2600, Arp Odyssey, Electro-Comp, Buchla Modular System, ** Interdata 7/16 computer with high speed arithmetic logic unit, Altair 8800, Recording Studios (1971-1977): Mickey Hart's Rolling Thunder, Novato, CA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Machine Group, Cambridge, Mass. "Seastones" is the only album that has been released from electronic music composer Ned Lagin. The sound quality is very good. Perhaps 45 years after its original release and having been presented in several different ways previously (included a 2 CD set with 111 parts), finally Ned Lagin’s Seastones found itself sequenced and presented in what feels like its most satisfying 18 part 50 minute form. Words with reverberations, with harmonics of feelings, meaning(s). When This eighty-three moment form edition comprises most but not all of the complete Seastones, following the original intent of creating a musical composition whose constituent moment forms were not meant to be listened to (or performed) as one fixed linear progression. articulation of form in space, and the interconnection and modulation of ensemble musicians. With my crystal radio, and subsequent radios, I could tune-in stations from all over the world, broadcasting in different languages and every kind of music. No digital music media existed at or near the time, but one could see a future with digital random-access media and technologies. Grateful Dead Live at Ace's (SNACK Rehearsal) on 1975-03-17 (March 17, 1975). Seastones 59 clip (1:52) into the composition. During his professional career in science and engineering R&D (1976–2011) he worked on the earliest home computing technology with an Altair 8800; was a pre-release Apple Macintosh software seed developer;[17] developed real time digital video and image processing systems;[18] biotechnology and immunology instrumentation; DNA, RNA, and peptide synthesis and sequencing hardware and artificial intelligence software; early wireless network routing systems;[19][20] and consulted in ecological planning, design and habitat restoration, including aerial and ecological photography for environmental studies. For this release, Seastones has been re-mixed and re-mastered in stereo, and includes most of the original 1970-1974 studio (core) forms (almost all have never been heard before), as well as the parts of my concurrent composition L that are shared with Seastones (L remains unfinished), and some of the moment forms generated and accreted into the composition from live performances (1973 - early 1975). Interweaving musical technologies with sound art, science, linguistics, philosophy, and early music, Seastones is comprised of pieces that are dynamic, rich and deep. Most of my written and recorded music, on paper and on tape, was either stolen (1975) or destroyed by the massive storm and flooding on January 2, 1982 in Northern California. Moments of different type and scale and dimensionality gathered together in a special way to form a sensuous whole. Possibly there's a date mixup. circuitry made from some of these components one could receive (be in tune, syntonic with) signals within a sea of electromagnetic fields. The other musicians performing on Cat Dreams: Lagin has served in Novato, California[22] and Marin County government: Planning Commission, Downtown Plan Committee Chairperson,[23] Economic Development Commission, Tree Task Force, Marin Conservation League Board of Directors,[24] Marin County Flood Control Advisory Board, and chairperson for the Warner Creek Committee.[3][25]. The Eu had four voice channels of voltage controlled oscillators, filters, amplifiers and envelope generators, as well as other modules. During this period, Evans wrote out some of his tunes for Lagin. Download this monster show now. Words as fields. **Black Vinyl** Ned Lagin's Seastones is a pioneering electronic composition interweaving metaphors from nature, science, art and music and the origins of music. Ephemeral existence. For this two CD release, Seastones has been re-mixed and re-mastered in stereo from the surviving original 16 track, 4 track, and 2 track magnetic tape masters. "True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time." Ned Lagin (born March 17, 1948) is an American artist, photographer, scientist, composer, and keyboardist. Ned Lagin's Seastones is a groundbreaking electronic work which features musicians Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, David Crosby, Grace Slick, David Freiberg, Mickey Hart, and Spencer Dryden. His photography and art influences include Ansel Adams, Elliot Porter, Walker Evans, Edward Weston, Life magazine and The World We Live In, and National Geographic.[3]. The original version of the piece was released in 1975 on The Grateful Dead's sub-label Round Records. This second release utilizes digital audio technology and processing imagined in the original composition of the time but only available after I stopped live and studio performance. Imprints that could be used to further process their own audio, and imprints that could be used to modulate or otherwise control audio signal processing and synthesis of other musicians’ sound. Chomsky's generative grammar concepts inspired Lagin's thinking about creating generative music forms (1968), and Lettvin connected him to the writings of Norbert Wiener and Warren McCulloch, and more generally to cybernetics.[2][3]. ALL IMAGES, MUSIC, WRITTEN CONTENT, AND WEB SITE DESIGN COPYRIGHT © 2016 NED LAGIN. Some moment forms are just one wave form cycle. Their instinctive innate eco-syntonic music(s) and forms of sound and musical induction, entrainment, and entanglement. Ned Lagin's Seastones is a groundbreaking electronic work which features musicians Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, David Crosby, Grace Slick, David Freiberg, Mickey Hart, and Spencer Dryden. And aesthetic ideas inherent in 20th century visual arts, literature, and music. Ned Lagin's Seastones is a groundbreaking electronic work which features musicians Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, David Crosby, Grace Slick, David Freiberg, Mickey Hart, and Spencer Dryden. This edition includes most but not all of the original studio (core) forms, and some of those moment forms generated from live performances (1972-1975) and accreted John W. Scott, Mike Dolgushkin, Stu Nixon, Deadbase, Jr. Deadbase, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1995. Seastones 16 clip (2:58) And each charged with its own storied experience of presence and absence, of the ever changing conditions of ancient oceans and atmosphere, of ancient rain and heat and cold and wind, of sunlight and darkness, of the passage of individual living beings and of entire species. Playing music is about creating feelings and meanings in (other) creatures. Each stone calling out and insisting on being picked up, to be held and experienced. Seastones is an album by American composer and musician Ned Lagin.. An important Seastones compositional and improvisational dimension (from1970): the musicians and their musical persona and creativity could manifest, not only directly as each individual's audio, but also in other ways. Eleanor Lagin, David Lagin, Mary Ann Steinruck, Adah Cain and Ilya Bluvshteyn, and many others are family members and associates of Ned. Ned Lagin has an official website Spiritcats.com where he writes extensively about his photography, art, and music, and, has several galleries of wonderful images to explore. Ned Lagin is legendary. There is no one beginning, middle, or end. His creation of sand drawings and multi-image forms to create "fields of meaning(s)" was influenced by the rock art and imagery (petroglyphs, pictographs) of Native Americans, Australian Aboriginals, and prehistoric Europeans. Some moment forms are ideogrammatic; they communicate their own self-contained structure, each a sensuous object in and of itself. Ned Lagin (born March 17, 1948) is an American artist, photographer, scientist, composer, and keyboardist. A new, two-CD album of Seastones was released on March 8, 2018. In early 1975, an Altair 8800, the first "home computer", was added. All rights reserved. 19 and 29, Relix, Volume 18, No.3, page 31 ("Summer Issue"): Ned Lagin – An Interview with Nick Skidmore, "Collegiate Jazz Festival 1969" program, Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival, March 14 and 15, 1969, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. These are presented as solo, duo, small group, and band; acoustic, electric, electronic music. 13, April 1, 1991, p. 9: "People and Positions", Reauthorization of the Clean Water Act: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Clean Water, Fisheries, and Wildlife of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, on S. 1114 ... S. 1302 ... June 16, 23; July 1, 14, 27; August 4, 5; and September 15, 1993 (1994), 1994 River Conservation Directory (U.S. Dept. My first electronic synthesis - creating and putting signals through modular home-made circuitry built from these same kinds of components. All rights reserved. ** Limited Blue Translucent Vinyl ** Ned Lagin's Seastones is a pioneering electronic composition interweaving metaphors from nature, science, art and music and the origins of music. As a kid, electricity and electronics, nature and natural history, chemistry and minerals, sound and music, and electromagnetic fields were all connected. He was deeply influenced by the jazz world in New York City, particularly pianist Bill Evans,[6] who he met in Boston and saw perform many times in New York and Boston in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [3], He attended the Wheatley School in Old Westbury, New York, was awarded two National Science Foundation Scholarships, and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the intention of becoming an astronaut. Creating, listening to a set of moment forms creates a world line in Seastones musical spacetime. 20th century art and individualism and modernism, science and technology, satellites and space travel and moon landings, transistors, miniature electronics, new chemistry and physics, and new ecological world views combining environmental and spiritual consciousness. Ned Lagin (born March 17, 1948) is an American artist, photographer, scientist, composer, and keyboardist.Lagin is considered a pioneer in the development and … Conversations with the Dead, The Grateful Dead Interview Book, Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2002. pp. The Eu analog system was large enough to input audio and control signals from the other musician's instruments, and vocal and percussion microphones. When I was seven I had a crystal radio set, with a galena mineral crystal for signal detection, a wire coil for tuning, and a long wire antenna outside my upstairs bedroom window stretching about 30 feet to a tree across our backyard. The physicality and sensuality of sound vibrations - sensory fields with harmonics of feelings and meanings. The stones always seem to contain stories I need to see and read and hear. [8][9], In early 1970, Lagin initiated a correspondence with Jerry Garcia after seeing the Grateful Dead at the Boston Tea Party in 1969. 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