robert curgenven
How To Evaluate and Adjust Your 4 Channel System in Stereo

mixed: Good Friday, 18 April 2025
Brisbane, Australia
55mins.
 

Let Ken Nordine (for RCA Victor) and Ken Gilmore (of Project 3 & Popular Science Magazine) help you evaluate and adjust your four channel system in glorious high fidelity stereo. Expand your listening to the many wonders of this new way of hearing sound in space as they guide you through the process of setting up the many speakers of your new home stereo listening system: from speaker placement, test tones, noises in the room right through to the range of new sounds you will hear. Marvel as exciting performances from Gyorgy Ligeti to Eliane Radigue, Tom Jones and Gene Krupa come to life as you successfully evaluate and adjust your system in 4 channel stereo sound!

Tracklisting:

  1. 1. Ken Nordine – This is Stereo (Sounds in Space, Living Stereo, RCA Victor, 7”, 1960)
  2. 2. Kid 606 - "Site Specific Sound Installation" (Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You, 2003, Ipecac, IPC 45)
  3. 3. Ministry – Fucked (Box, 1993, Warner Bros. Records, 9362-41269-2)
  4. 4. Ministry - N.W.O. (Extended Dance Mix) (Box, 1993, Warner Bros. Records, 9362-41269-2)
  5. 5. Waki – Nagi (Music for Lazy People, 2001, Traum Schallplatten, TRAUMCD6)
  6. 6. Alexander Tillegreen - Episode 1 (Wolken) (In Words, 2023, Raster, rn205)
  7. 7. Robert Curgenven – unreleased (AGENESIS overdubs, 2025)
  8. 8. Gyorgy Ligeti / A Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss & Susanne Van Els - Lux Aeterna (Lux Aeterna / Im Gestein, 2008, Harmonia Mundi – HMC 901985)
  9. 9. Enoch Light, Jeff Hest, Ken Gilmore - Q4 Test Record (Project 3, Total Sound / Popular Science, 1973, PR401 QS)
  10. 10. Albert Mayr – Proposta Sonora X (Proposta Sonora, 2004, Ants, AG08)
  11. 11. Jerome Noetinger & SEC_ - Testacoda B (Testacoda, 2012, Bocian, BCtc)
  12. 12. Frankie Vaughan – Tower of Strength (7”, Philips, PB 1195)
  13. 13. Tom Jones – It’s Not Unusual (1965 Decca Music Group Limited)
  14. 14. Tahiti Boy & The Palmtree Family / Mr Oizo - Solution (WRONG - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 2012, Ed Banger Records – BEC5161260)
  15. 15. Acreil - the sound of the sky in its geometrical implementation (2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfagniHgruU in five browsers
  16. 16. Gene Krupa – Berne’s Song (solo, source unknown)
  17. 17. Karineh Avetissian - Bats mez ter (Open for us) (The Music of Armenia, Volume 1 Sacred Choral Music, 1996, Celestial Harmonies, 13115-2)
  18. 18. Ueno Masaki – Vortex State (Vortices, 2004, Raster Noton, rn117)
  19. 19. Eliane Radigue - Jetsun Mila (2007, Lovely Music, Ltd, LCD 2003)
  20. 20. Albert Mayr – Proposta Sonora I (Proposta Sonora, 2004, Ants, AG08)
  21. 21. Artsvik Demourchian - Havoun havoun (About the bird) (The Music of Armenia, Volume 1 Sacred Choral Music, 1996, Celestial Harmonies, 13115-2)
  22. 22. Unknown Mongolian vocalist – solo recording (source unknown, Northern Territory University Library 2003)
  23. 23. Robert Henke – Studies for Thunder (Signal to Noise, 2004, Kompakt / Imbalance Computer Music, ICM 05)
  24. 24. Tortoise – Ten Day Interval (TNT, 1998. Thrill Jockey, Thrill 050)
  25. 25. Ustad Bary Fateh Ali Khan  - Raga Bairagi Bhairavi - Early morning (The Music Of Islam - Volume Thirteen: Music Of Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan, 1998, Celestial Harmonies, 13153-2)
  26. 26. Evol – Rave Slime A (Rave Slime, 2010, Alku, ALKU103)
  27. 27. Thai Drumming (source unknown, Northern Territory University Library 2003)
  28. 28. The Ruiner – Volcano (The Ruiner, 2016, Desert Highways, HWYS 007)