The Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music

{Nonesuch HG-73018). A great idea has gone astray here, for these two records provide a technical manual rather than an aesthetic guide: they tell the how, but not the why, of electronic music. Moreover, it was a fatal mistake to have a printed text in a booklet, rather than a spoken text on the record to define and explain the sounds. Most revelatory of all in the album is the opening “Peace Three,” a very attractive electronic composition played on a Moog Synthesizer.