Charles Wuorinen - Time's Encomium (For Synthesized & Processed Synthesized Sound) (LP, Album)

OG inner sleeve // Price tag

Time's Encomium was composed and realized between January 1968 and January 1969, at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York.

a Nonesuch Records commission

This data (when provided) is identical to other releases and confirmed as valid. The composition won a Pulitzer prize but this is not in evidence in releases produced prior to this award.

DETAIL OF THIS RELEASE

On THIS release the Matrix/Run-out data is faint and difficult to photograph, but sufficiently legible to interpret as stated:

"ARC" is the pressing facility: Allentown Record Co. Inc.

The "Pete Helffrich" signature seems illegible but his identity is known and associated with ARC in numerous other examples.

The "7-26-69" follows closely but only the first digit is debatable. This is the date of production.

Whole some releases have distinctly-different label designs, others are identical or nearly-so. For the latter. subtle differences with the placement of print on the labels were also examined closely. Variations may be seem with the precise location of print on either side of the spindle in relation to the inner circle of the vinyl.

At this time the variations observed may be attributed to the placement of identical labels in slightly different positions.

In THIS release:

Side A, left side, the "S" of "STEREO" and the "H" of the catalog number begin just inside the circle, and on the right side, the "EO" and ":53" cross the line.

Side B, left side, the "S" of "STEREO" and the "H" of the catalog number fall on the line itself, and on the right side, the "E" also falls on the line, and the ":" just inside it.


COMPARISONS WITH OTHER RELEASES:

THIS release may be identical to
[r5229679

Label print placement is one small variant, but the primary reason to a new submission is in the matrix run-out data, which is probably the same (but misread). It states:

Side A: H 71225 A Pete Helffrig ARC725-4
Side B: H 71225 B Pete Helffrig ARC725-9

Compared with "ARC 7-26-69" as seem for both sides of THIS release, the missing dashes and "6" of "69" are a concern, but misreading "6" as "5" and "9" as "4" could easily be done. Or might two lacquers have been cut on consecutive days, the 25th and 26th of July, 1969?

These are likely to be the identical release, but until the other contributor can verify this proposed correction, it seems inappropriate to overwrite my data on theirs. Therefore THIS one is submitted separately for comparison.


COMPARISON WITH OTHER RELEASES

Side A of
[r216339
shifts the placement of the words one character left. This could be a variance in production, not design. But this release credits Bob Ludwig as the mastering engineer -- clearly contradicted by the data of THIS release.
[a271098

[r9578476
has a completely new set of production credits:
"Lacquer Cut At – Masterdisk"
"Lacquer Cut At – Sterling Sound"
"Pressed By – Specialty Records Corporation"

[r5681619
is identified as a 1970 repressing with Side B remastered by Bob Ludwig:
"Matrix / Runout (Side A Runout): H 71225 A Pete Helffrich"
"Matrix / Runout (Side B Runout): H-7̶1̶2̶5̶5̶-B RE-1 71225 B STERLING RL"

[r9237218
also admits to a 1970 origin (but not as a repressing), and provides yet another variation on the matrix/runout data:
"(Runout etching side A): H 71225 A 2590 002 A-1 Pete Helffrig"
"(Runout etching side B): 2590 002 B-1 H 71225 B Pete Helffrig"

[r5230703
is identified as a repressing and belongs to a different family of label designs.

[r5319760
is identified as a Canadian reissue by WEA Music Of Canada, Ltd.

[r3768523
is designated as a UK release, and lacks label images, production credits, and deadwax data.

 

. Time's Encomium

 

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Matrix / Runout H 71225 A Pete Helffrig ARC725-4Matrix / Runout H 71225 B Pete Helffrig ARC725-9Matrix / Runout H 71125 A ... Pete Helffrich ... ARC 7-26-69Matrix / Runout H 71125 B ... Pete Helffrich ... ARC 7-26-69

 

Recorded At Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music CenterPressed By Allentown Record Co. Inc.Data provided by Discogs