SCALATRON MUSIC The Alien Territory Archives
Posted on Sep 05, 2025 by Intravenal Sound Operations
A Collection of Radical, Experimental & Irrelevant Music from the '70's San Diego.
"Scalatron Music," which Galás used to open her 'Wild Women with Steakknives" performances in the 80's, was recorded by her in 1982 in the basement studio in UCSD, where she would go at midnight to improvise and record. There, as she recalls, she would "sing/shriek" while playing the instrument-a carny freak show considered radical by the art and film students who worked in other studios. Improvising on the Scalaron, a microtonal organ designed by Herman Pedtke and admired by Harry Partch, Galás kicks up a storm, leaving the 70's, a tumultuous decade of experimentation, in the dust.
Bill Perrine
All selections made by Willie Stewart
Compiled by Bill Perrine and Willie Stewart
NYAHH RECORDS