Dancing on Moonbeams by Janet Beat 1980

Detail of the graphic score of the recording of 'Dancing on Moonbeams' by Janet Beat (1980). This is one of the more unusual scores in the collection and was found by chance tucked into an archive box. Janet Beat owned the first synthesiser to be made commercially available in the UK and her early electronic pieces were composed on it. She is one of the pioneers of electronic music composition in the UK and her earliest ‘musique concrete’ pieces belong to the late 1950s. The score also includes an explanation of the 'symbols' and notes as follows: "Realised on a Roland 100M syntheziser with echo and reverberation units. Recorded on a TEAC 3340 with Accessit companders and mixed down through a Studiomaster 16 into 4 onto a TEAC 7300 RX dbx on. Tape: Amex 456. Master tape: 1/2 track, 2 channel, 38 cm (15 ips), NAB. Tape available from the composer. Duration: 9 minutes 46 seconds."

Janet Beat in the BMC: http://thecollection.soundandmusic.org/composer/janet-beat