My idea was to create a sound collage with form but without losing spontaneity and an element randomness. I set up all these reel to reel machines with tapes I had pre-recorded and plugged them into a mixing board, feeding stereo to a two-track master 15 IPS Revox A77 tape deck. By October I was ready to put it all together. In June of 1972 I did a preliminary version of elements of the piece. I began to envision an electronic and Musique Concrete piece combining various natural and processed sound recordings with synthesized sound into a suite of noise. During this period I acquired the first self-contained portable synthesizer, the newly-designed ARP 2600. I also sampled music, film soundtracks and TV and radio broadcasts.

Lumière evolved over a period of three years from 1969 to 1972.I started by recording random sounds: Jets taking off at LAX, my girlfriend laughing and screaming, my cat Bartok biting a microphone, conversations, etc. Taylor has bounced between the music world and the visual arts for most of his life and continues to pursue diverse creative projects. Not long after the release of Lumière, Taylor established Vargod Studios for electronic music and recorded sound, where in 1974 he created his second work, Variations on the 'Dudley Do-Right' Theme for sampled and processed sound (never released before, this exclusive track is included on the CD version). He has studied with pianist Richard Bunger and composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. He has many creative facets: recording and mastering engineer, record producer as well as composer, graphic designer and visual artist. This real masterpiece of Concrète and Synthesized music was no more available since its original manufacture in 1973.ĭub Taylor is an US composer, producer, engineer and designer born Jin Burbank, California.

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