Lullaby for the Hearts of Space

Lullaby for the Hearts of Space is being restored and will be re-released. All the original tape masters and safety copies of this piece had disintegrated due to a faulty emulsion formula on Ampex 456. (You recording engineers know what I’m talking about…) Even after a tried-and-mostly-true remedy of baking the tape, there just wasn’t enough oxide left. I contacted Stephen Hill at Hearts of Space to see if he had a copy somewhere. He was gracious enough to invite me to his storage space where we sifted through many years of tapes. It was like revisiting a past life for both of us, I think. We found a (3rd generation?) copy! There are many issues to solve and it’s like restoring and old film frame by frame.

It is a classic not only in terms of Spacemusic but in live analog synthesis. I’ve been getting many requests for its release not the least of whom is Serge Tcherepnin who told me it was his favorite piece that was done on the Serge Modular Music System.