Vortex Concerts
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The Vortex Concerts, organized by Henry Jacobs and Jordan Belson, were a series of concerts featuring new music, including some of Jacobs' own, and that of Karlheinz Stockhausen, and many others - taking place in the Morrison Planetarium in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Sound designers, including Walter Murch, the sound designer of Apocalypse Now, commonly regard this as the origin of the (now standard) concept of "surround sound."
The program was popular, and Jacobs and Belson were invited to present a version of it at the 1958 World Expo in Brussels.
Highlights Of Vortex
Highlights Of Vortex (Folkways Records – FSS 6301, 1959) featured some of the concerts:
A1 –David Talcott Trilogy 5:23 A2 –Henry Jacobs Chan Flute – Santiago Herarra Guitar – L.K. Dunham Tabla [Amplified Indian] – Henry Jacobs 2:16 A3 –William Loughborough* For The Big Horn 2:49 A4 –Henry Jacobs Logos 2:12 A5 –Henry Jacobs Rhythm Study #8 2:16 B1 –Gordon Longfellow Notes On The History Of A World, Part 3 4:11 B2 –David Talcott Loop Number 3 4:01 B3 –Henry Jacobs Electronic Kabuki Mambo 4:47 B4 –Gordon Longfellow 350-2 3:24
