The future of home listening pleasure literally yellowing before our eyes.
(Who did they think had the money to buy a whole extra set of speakers and wotnot?)
That's the inner sleeve to this record
The music's futurism hasn't yellowed one bit though - hear it here uploaded from a quadraphonic 8-track tape!
I must say I am curious what this avant-electronic stuff would have sounded like in quadraphonic, through the system suggested here.
A lot of your Stockhausen / Xenakis types created works designed to be heard in the concert hall environment through multi-speaker surroundsound systems - octophonic or more. Sound-clusters panning and veering and encircling the audience...
Eno didn't go far as quad but he did suggest using a triple-speaker system to get the most out of On Land.
Now that's a record I would love to hear exactly as its creator envisaged...
Then - not exhausting the subject, by any means - there is Flaming Lips's Zaireeka. Which is meant to be played on four CD players simultaneously - four different discs, four players, presumably eight speakers in total?
Mark Richardson wrote an interesting monograph on this album, as part of the 33&third series. He has actually heard Zaireeka, more than once if I recall, in the way that Flaming Lips suggested. But I should imagine it's not something that has happened very often with this album.
Someone has attempted to squish the four-becomes-one Zaireeka into a YouTube, with I suspect, unsatisfying results, given that the listener is hearing it through just 2 speakers.
