Beaver & Krause Grace Cathedral Performance (1971)

As one half of the electronic duo Beaver & Krause, Bernie Krause performed with the newly invented Moog synthesizer on hundreds of popular recording sessions through the late 60s and early 70s -- contributing the electronic sounds of the future to albums from The Doors, The Monkees, the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Neil Young, and The Beach Boys.
Over two nights in in January of 1971, Bernie Krause recorded his Moog Synthesizer IIIp in Grace Cathedral -- with a reverberation time of 7 seconds -- for the Beaver & Krause album Gandharva.
This archive footage, unreleased for nearly 50 years, shows Bernie Krause and Paul Beaver in collaboration with the Gandharva ensemble during their live session in the Grace Cathedral. Krause set up mics throughout the entire church and asked the musicians to walk through the nave as they performed, emphasizing the illusion of space on the recording.
Bernie Krause is the recipient of the 2018 Moog Innovation Award -- presented at Moogfest 2018, the annual music, art and technology festival in Durham, North Carolina. This award recognizes over 50 years of visionary work that has redefined our understanding of creativity and deepened the possibilities that can be shared between human and machine.
Learn more about Bernie Krause here: www.wildsanctuary.com/
Learn more about Moogfest at www.moogfest.com

[@ckeady3189]

Wish I could see more footage... I work in the music department at Grace Cathedral and notice they are also using our (real) pipe organ, which was built in 1932 and has hardly been changed since then.

[@tomfenn7149]

'Good Places' is one of my all time favourite pieces of music. Lovely to see this video. Thank you.

[@rechargedimpetus6644]

LIGHT YEARS AHEAD

[@nickpelkey]

Priceless. Thanks for the insight on this process and project.

[@larrygrogan7191]

From the recording of Gandharva, with Gerry Mulligan, Bud Shank and Howard Roberts

[@MuzixMaker]

I have a vinyl that I bought in the mid 70s/

[@northlincsfox243]

So, here we are, 50 years to the day since the “live” performance was performed.

[@dualtrx]

Funny to see these old videos where people used to smoke so much indoors.

[@Rhythmicons]

No wonder those oscs didn't stay in tune...

[@Qolus]

Great to watch on multiple levels... It's neat to see Mulligan using the very top of the bari's range.

[@revzob]

I love the album so much ! I never thought to see something about these sessions. if you have something more please upload it, thank you.

[@warhammerpyro]

What is the name of that album?

[@leonardsfriend5821]

The album is Gandharva.

[@leonardsfriend5821]

Wish this clip was the whole performance.

[@westrig180]

@@warhammerpyro If you havent found out yet ....Gandharva Lp and the song they are working on here is 'By Your Grace '

[@chaosme1ster]

@@warhammerpyro "Gandharva" by Beaver & Krause

[@croiners4166]

❤

[@jdsgotninelives]

That was great! Is there any more? Thanks :-)

[@frederickharrison3085]

How much archival footage is there? I would love to see an SACD reissue of the quad mix for Gandharva reworked for 5.1 with accompanying video. Having footage for the whole of side two is probably asking for a miracle but stranger things have turned up.

[@salicarbonati]

I'm pretty sure that the guitarist is Howard Roberts!

[@indigochamber]

apparently this footage was recorded because a tv documentary was made of it. does anybody know where to watch it? i've been scouring the internet for it a long time

[@Ficalos]

This is great. Is that Gerry Mulligan on the bari?

[@resonantfilterblog]

Mitcham Tuell Sure is!

[@ben-rosfeld]

And then...
Moog

[@DunerecordsGent]

No smoking in the church please...