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This is the first of electronic music made in Brazil. Jorge Antunes is a wonderful composer who constructed the Center for Chomo-Musical Research in Rio de Janeiro, and thereby became the first composer of electronic music in his country. "Valso Sideral" (1962) and "Contrapunctus Contra Contrapunctus" (1965) are early uses of patterning in "rhythmic cells," where the rhythms are gradually distorted. In "Cintra Cita," (1969) the composer has a "bande rendezvous" (tape meeting) with himself over materials, chance rhythms and thoughts, used throughout his work. The fascinating "Auto-Retrato Sonre Paisaje Porteno" (1969) used a scratch in an old 78 rpm record played on a wind-up phonograph as the basic rhythmic element for the construction of an electronically modified samba, where the words are inflected by the composer's voice and lose all actual meaning. "Historia de un Pueblo" (1970) is a dramatic work alternating between sweet persuasion and aggression, a not explicitly narrative story that can nevertheless be understood by anyone. ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny
