Jon Scoville
Running man music
Running Man is a collection of music written in the early 1990s for various choreography projects and was initially released on cassette. It came at a time when I was learning the outs and ins of recording for commercial use. Cassettes were the device of choice in that era — with both the pluses (a warm sound due, in part, to the analog tape medium and equipment requirements which were relatively inexpensive) -but also minuses (a pervasive hiss in the tape format which was ignored when the music was loud — as so much of it was in that era; and a very small surface on which to print both the bios of performers and the details about the tracks).
The world of vinyl was diminished considerably during the first appearance of cassettes, and with it went both the warm beauty of the analog sound and the large cover size, well-suited for both the memorable art on the cover and the details of who did what on which.
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Jon Scoville
Jon Scoville is an accomplished composer and dance accompanist, he has toured worldwide and accompanied many dancers. Scoville is the house composer for Tandy Beal & Company, which is run by his collaborator, muse, and spouse Tandy Beal.
Jon Scoville was, for 40 years, the music director of the Modern Dance program at the University of Utah. Additionally, he taught and accompanied in the U.S., Europe, South America, and Asia. His scores have been commissioned by Alwin Nikolais, Murray Louis, Tran Chan of Brazil, Laura Dean, the Oakland Ballet, the Pickle Family Circus, the Høvik Ballet of Norway, Compagnie Hors Taxes of Paris, the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, and various faculty in the dance program.
Jon is a recipient of a California Arts Council Composer’s Fellowship and grants from the Salt Lake Arts Commission and Santa Cruz Arts Council.
He is a co-author of Sound Designs, a book about the design and construction of musical instruments.
Original deadstock cassette of Running Man Music on cassette, packaged with a rare first-edition (used) copy of “Sound Designs”. Only 6 available.
Books vary in condition from Very Good to Fair.
Comes with a code for a free digital download.