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ResEnv Research Update 4/16 Joe Paradiso An Introduction to Prog Rock Prof. J. Paradiso – MIT Media Lab

Session 1: Intro - Things your dad should have told you about Prog Session 2; Session 3: Session 4: Zeuhl Session 5: and Neopsychedelia Session 6: French & Quebecois Prog Session 7: Rock Progressivo Italiano Session 8: , Berlin, and (perhaps some Scandavania too) Session 9: Japanese Prog Lecture 1 – Introduction, Roots of Prog, Classic Prog ResEnv Research Update 4/16 Joe Paradiso 1/10/2018 IAP 2018 Books on Prog….

And books on many bands – e.g., , … 4/08 JAP Resources

‘Romantic Warriors’ DVD set by Adele Schmidt & José Zegarra Holder In MIT’s Music Library Krautrock documentary in progress – Italian prog and perhaps space rock, etc. coming…. 4 4/08 JAP Magazines

In Lewis Music Library!

5 4/08 JAP Some Websites & Resources

http://www.progarchives.com

http://www.proggnosis.com http://www.expose.org

Chris Cutler’s Podcasts: http://ccutler.co.uk/ccpodcast.htm Many Facebook Groups: Avant Progressive, Canterbury, etc., etc. 7 4/08 JAP Vendors…

http://synphonicmusic.com/ https://www.lasercd.com/

http://www.waysidemusic.com 7 Vendors (UK)

http://home.btconnect.com/ultimathule/index.html

https://burningshed.com/ http://www.rermegacorp.com/ http://www.progrock.co.uk/ Prog Festivals!

https://burgherzberg-festival.de/

http://rockinopposition.rocktime.org/ https://www.progday.net/ https://proglodytes.com/2017/12/07/exhaustive-prog-festival-list-2018/ http://www.gaudela.net/gar/ 4/08 JAP A Historical Perspective

10 ~14K – most on CD! 4/08 JAP Music <> Exploration - I seek out music everywhere!

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• WMFO, WMBR, WZBC Radio Shows • 1974 – 1994 • Still sporadically – e.g. WMBR 1/30 & 2/6 2-4 PM

13 4/08 http://synth.media.mit.edu JAP Now in the M These things came back!!

To be installed again as part of CAVS 50 year Festivities 14 OK – I’m a huge ‘Prog’ rock fan & took these photos

Yes - 1972 - 1973 Magma - 1979

Pink Floyd - 1972 Gentle Giant - 1975 4/08 JAP What is Prog? • In most of its forms, Prog is often known for: – The extreme virtuosity of its musicians –The complexity of its compositions –Quirky and dynamic meters –The use of groundbreaking studio techniques –The edgy timbres and sounds of its instruments. • This happened pretty much 1967-1977 – Technology available in studios, high fidelity/FM, general ‘mind expansion’ and rethinking, new instruments, record companies took risks because they ‘didn’t get it’ yet… 16

The Market Responds

Minimoog - 1970 The Quasi-Modulars

EML 101

ARP 2600 Korg MS-20 Look Ma – No Cords! (but all fingers) 5/98 JAP Childhood Memories...

Wendy Carlos Mort Subnotick 21 5/98 JAP Everything on the Moog post SoB

1968-71 22 5/98 JAP The (original) ‘Berlin’ Sound

Tangerine Dream - 1974 - 1975 Ash Ra Temple - 1976

Popol Vuh - 1972 Conrad Schnitzler - 1974 Eberhard Schoener - 1973 23 Pre-MIDI prog keyboardists surrounded themselves With their gear…. and Old ‘Sampler’ Keyboards http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrXtmKGkSa4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKLWX_WLsTA&feature=related Tape head pressed into tape - 8 second long strips - affect signal quality Also /Orchestron & earlier optical samplers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXJJ2Ek4bmQ http://www.optigan.com/ 1946 – Harry Mellotron is pervasive in much of Prog

Klaus Schulze ‘Friedrich Nietzsche’ - 1978 ‘Ricochet’ - 2003 Contemporary Classical Influenced Prog

Igor Stravinsky Edgard Varese Pierre Schaeffer Karlheinz Stockhausen

• Mainstream prog bands often quoted Ravel, Stravinsky, Mussorgsky, etc. • Tape Music influenced early prog (, Beatles) • Zappa influenced heavily by Varese • RIO, more advanced prog was/is very well versed in academic music and Prog Cross-Fertilized Miles’ alums develop fusion

Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz To Come - 1959 A Love Supreme - 1965 Bitches Brew - 1970 Weather Report s/t - 1971

Herbie Hancock Return to Forever Larry Coryell – The 11th House - 1974 The Inner Mounting Flame - 1971 Crossings - 1972 Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy - 1973 Jazzy Proto-Prog (all US)…

1969 1970 1971 1974 Featuring Jerry Goodman on vipln (pre-Mahavishnu) 'Man Vs. Man - The End’ From Chicago III

‘Hornschmeyer's Island’ From Dinosaur Swamps (The Flock)

1969 1971 Columbia A&R signed Chicago-area brass/rock See also Nucleus, Catapilla (both UK) bands to follow up on BS&T Success Origins of Prog…

1966 1967 1967 1968 1969

• Prog came largely out of early . Several of the early psychedelic bands became prog bands or went through a proggy phase • (& George Martin) were key in Prog’s early gestation • According to Bruford, Prog came out of Britain’s mid-upper classes, and was forged by kids w. music lessons playing in the Anglican Church Other (USA) Landmarks Enroute To Prog

1966 1967 1968 The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil Coming Down Perhaps the first actual ‘Prog’ ?

Seventy-Five Touch – The Touch Album (1968)

• Keyboard player from the Kingsmen (“Louie Louie” - 1963) • Ton of $ from record label – house/studio in LA total excess • They made one of the most forward-looking LPs in rock • Came out in 1968 – beat King Crimson, Yes, etc!! Pink Floyd

1967 1968 1969 1969 1970 1971

Careful With That Axe, Eugene (Live) Let There Be More Light Several Species Of Small Furry Animals… The psychedelic clubs of were noisy factories that forged Prog in the late ‘60s , Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, … Decca wanted them to do rock version of Dvorak’s Ninth The Moody Blues Symphony for this LP!

1967 1968 1969 1969 1971 Legend of a Mind Gypsy

1970 1971 1972 I saw them at the Boston Garden in 1972

• RIP Ray Thomas! Argent – from the Zombies to Prog

1968 The Zombies – Odyssey and Oracle Argent – Nexus - 1974 Argent – Circus - 1975 She’s Not There Infinite Wanderer • Rod Argent is one of Britain's premier keyboard players – Up with Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Brian Auger, , Keith Tippet, David Stewart, …

The Uncle Meat Variations

The Little House I Used to Live in

Recommended! 1969 1970 Zappa stands by himself in prog. Releasing groundbreaking records since 1966’s Freak Out through even after he passed in 1992 via his large recorded legacy. Influenced by avant-garde classical music, jazz, and doo-wap, psychedelia was mainly something for Zappa to poke fun at. Hugely influential in most edgy genres. 4/08 JAP Prog Is Not Dead!! (but definitely smells funny)

The tall ‘Tree’ of Prog has ceded to a huge ecosystem of beautiful sonic weeds that cover a multitude of musical landscapes!! Symphonic Prog, NeoProg, Rock in Opposition (RIO), Canterbury, Zeuhl, Krautrock, Prog (technical) Metal, Mathrock, Postrock, Spacerock, Neopsychedelia, Jazz Prog…. 38 4/08 JAP A Prog ‘Tasting Tour’

A Flight Through Prog Vintages Across Decades…

…And not featuring always the most notorious vintners in their genre… 39 4/08 JAP Symphonic Prog

Nexus (Argentina) – ‘El Regreso (The Return)’ Kenso (Japan) From Odyssey – The Greatest Tale (2005) ‘Kinyudansha Madrigal’ from Fabulis Mirabilibus De Bombycosi Scriptis 2002 40 4/08 JAP Canterbury Prog

‘Wring Out The Ground Loosely Now’ By Egg (UK) from ‘The Civil Surface’ - 1974

41 4/08 JAP Rock in Opposition (RIO)

From ‘Living in the Heart of the Beast’ By Henry Cow (UK) From ‘’ - 1975 42 4/08 JAP Zeuhl

‘Break Up Dance’ By Troll (Michel Altmayer) [] From Musea’s ‘Enneade’ Compilation, 1987 43 4/08 JAP Rock Progressivo Italiano

New Trolls – ‘Nato Adesso’ Premiata Formeria Marconi (PFM) From ‘UT’ - 1972 ‘La Luna Nuova’ From ‘L’Isola Di Niente’ - 1974

44 4/08 JAP Classic Francophone Prog

‘Les Dieux Même’ – Atoll (France) ‘Tout L'Temps’ – Pollen (Quebec) From ‘Tertio’ - 1977 From ‘Pollen’ - 1976

45 4/08 JAP Krautrock

‘Feuerland’ by Michael Rother From ‘Flammende Herzen’ - 1976

46 4/08 JAP Space Rock

‘Dark Daze’ by DarXtar (Sweden) From ‘Daybreak’ - 1994

47 4/08 JAP Jazzy Prog

A Salesman’s Guide to Nonexistence’ By Thank You Scientist (US) ‘When I’m Sleeping’ by Out of Focus (DE) From From ‘Four Letter Monday Afternoon’ - 1972 ‘Maps of Non-Existent Places - 2012 48 4/08 JAP Mathrock and Technical Metal

‘Disintegore’ ‘In-A-Gadda-Devito’ by Behold… The Arctopus (US) by Upsilon Acrux (US) from ’Horrorcension’ - 2012 from ’Radian Futura’ - 2010 49 4/08 JAP Postrock

‘Someone Must Shout That We Will ‘Prognissekongen’ Build the Pyramids’ by () by Oiseaux-Tempête (France) from ’One-Armed Bandit’ - 2010 from ’ Ütopiya?’ - 2015 50