Sonic Seasonings

Infobox Album
Name = Sonic Seasonings
Type = Double album
Artist = Wendy Carlos
Released = 1972 1998 (CD reissue)
Recorded =
Genre = Ambient, Experimental, New Age
Length = 86:02 131:15 (1998 reissue)
Label = Columbia Records East Side Digital (1998 reissue)
Producer =
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:mxfibka9jakm link]
Last album = "The Well-Tempered Synthesizer" (1970)
This album = "Sonic Seasonings" (1972)
Next album = "A Clockwork Orange" (1972)

"Sonic Seasonings" is the third album by synthesizer pioneer Wendy Carlos. It was released in 1972. Each side of the double LP was a single piece which was a musing on each of the seasons. The compositions combined music with sound effects, such as rushing wind ("Fall"), birdsong ("Spring"), and insect noises ("Summer"). In her liner notes for the 1998 Compact Disc reissue, Carlos explained that the music "was intended to work on a timbral and experiential level", as part of "a third, viable alternative to acoustic and musical environmental presentations". [http://www.wendycarlos.com/+sslms.html]

Track listing

ide A

# "Spring" – 22:28

ide B

# "Summer" – 21:44

ide C

# "Fall" – 21:09

ide D

# "Winter" – 20:41

1998 reissue

East Side Digital reissued "Sonic Seasonings" in 1998 as a double-CD, with the original four compositions, plus outtakes and some other "natural" recordings which were originally released in 1986's "Land of the Midnight Sun".

Track listing

Disc one

# "Spring" – 22:28
# "Summer" – 21:44
# "Fall" – 21:09

Disc two

# "Winter" – 20:41
# "Winter (Outtake)" – 5:21
# "Aurora Borealis" – 19:55
# "Midnight Sun" – 19:57