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wed 28 jun 2017 22:00 hour
The Early Pink Floyd, #3. On 17 September 1969 the piece ‘The Massed Gadgets of Auximines’ was performed in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
This was the band’s first, long, conceptual piece. During the performance rock, electronic music, ‘musique concrète’ and tape effects came together. With the ‘Azimuth Coordinator’ they invented, and a substantially extended sound system, it was possible to send the sound throughout the entire concert hall. Because of this, the audience found themselves in the centre of the happening.
The piece depicts, in music and sounds, a 24 hour day out of the life of a man. He gets up in the morning, works, eats, drinks, goes to bed, does ‘it’ and has a nightmare. On stage, this resulted in, for instance, drinking tea or cutting wood.
‘The Man and the Journey’ was never in its entirety released as LP or CD, but luckily it was recorded by our colleages of the VPRO network. Listen to the biggest part of ‘The Man and the Journey’, performed by Pink Floyd: Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Rick Whright.
