Artist: Klaus Netzle, Elmulab
Tracklist:
1. Microprocessor 03:47
2. Goto 05:11
3. Save 01:59
4. String A 02:32
5. Gosub 04:52
6. Load 07:15
7. Break At 800 02:38
8. Verify 02:27
9. List 04:03
10. Break At 1200 01:12
Total: 35:56 Min
Elmulab; These were the Munich composer, musician and visual artist Klaus Netzle (aka Claude Larsen) and the Munich film composer, arranger and musician Gerhard “Delle” Haensch (aka Manuel Landy). From the mid-1970s, Klaus Netzle became interested in electronic music. Netzle was fascinated by the possibility of automating electronic processes in several tracks and producing complete orchestral sounds with synthesizers. In Osaka, Japan, he acquired one of the first six prototypes of Roland's MC8 Microcomposer and a copy of what was then the most modern and most advanced synthesizer, the Roland 700. These devices formed the basis for Netzle's studio for electronic music, Elmulab ("Electronic Music Laboratory") ) called. In 1979 Netzle produced the album "Microprocessor 8080A" together with Gerhard Haensch, which was published by Metronome in 1980 and has remained the only sound recording of the Elmulab project to this day. "I chose "Microprocessor 8080A" as the theme for this LP," said Klaus Netzle in 1980, "on the one hand because this component is the heart of the Microcomposer MC 8. On the other hand, to make people aware that microprocessors have meanwhile become an integral part of our environment. Just as one became accustomed to chips in electronic calculators, one day microprocessors will be taken for granted. At the latest when the home computer has the status in the private sphere that television has today.” Consequently, Netzle chose commands for the individual titles of “Microprocessor 8080A” with which the MC 8 is programmed, controlled and encouraged to compose. Now, after 43 (!) years, this pioneering work of electronic music is finally available in Germany on CD, remastered.
