1960s

1961 San Francisco Burning at SF Playhouse - Music by Warner Jepson - Review

1963 Brouhaha - Music by Warner Jepson - Review

1964 Saddle the Unicorn at SF Playhouse - Music by Warner Jepson (mp3 - 5mb 3min 42sec)

Prelude and Dance (SADDLE THE UNICORN) - Warner Jepson (Amiga video - 34mb 3min 42sec)

1965 "Piece" Toy Piano concert - Robert Erickson's Music performed with Warner Jepson on piano - (Archive.org)

1965 "Piece" for two Toy Pianos and Pre-recorded Bells -- Performed by Warner Jepson on KQED - (mp3 -25 mb 19:40)

Warner Jepson playing his Buchla 100 circa 1968

'Warner Remembers' - Video clip of him describing his work with the Buchla Electronic Synthesizer (17mb 5min)

'Warner Remembers' - Video clip of him talking about his Buchla Music at Art Openings in 1960s (11mb 3min)

Samples of Warner's Machine Show Music - Created on a Buchla Box circa 1968 (mp3 samples are 1mb and 1 min. each) 1WarnersBuchlaBoxMusic-Aliens 2WarnersBuchlaBoxMusic-Frogs 3WarnersBuchlaBoxMusic-Robots 4WarnersBuchlaBoxMusic-Rotation 5WarnersBuchlaBoxMusic-Bees 6WarnersBuchlaBoxMusic-Popcorn	Audio cassette of Warner Jepson's Buchla music circa 1969 (5mb 30sec)

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Totentanz - 1967 Electronic Musical Score by Warner Jepson

Curtain call for Totentanz with Warner Jepson (the tall guy in the middle)

Color video of Totentanz performance in1967 with Warner Jepson's electronic music score.
TOTENTANZ BALLET: Carlos Carvajal's master's thesis based upon research of the Dance Macabre or Totentanz,
from the time of the Black Plague to the present. The ballet is performed by Dance Spectrum at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.

'Warner Remembers' - Video clip of him recounting how he was hired to compose the music for Totentanz (19mb 3min 30sec)

Review of Totentanz by reynoldsretro.blogspot.com
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Warner-Jepson-Totentanz	Tracklist
Warner-Jepson-Totentanz- And-Other-Electronic-Works-1958-1973	Tracklist 1-1 Bugs At Large 2:43 1-2 Blood Knot 7:27 1-3 Skate Date 0:41 1-4 Laughter After 4:37 1-5 Rirlwa 2:00 1-6 Good Humor Man 2:34 1-7 Jacks 1:36 1-8 Jail Gate Crazy 1:03 1-9 Splace 1:20 1-10 Totentanz 35:05 2-1 The Dog 1:53 2-2 For Trying Out Loud 0:42 2-3 The Big Purr 0:58 2-4 The Awakening 20:03 2-5 See Is Never All The Way Up 24:44	Licensed To – Melon Expander Licensed From – Warner Jepson Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Jepson Copyright (c) – Melon Expander Phonographic Copyright (p) – Melon Expander Mastered At – Gench Studios

Small Sample of Totentanz and other Electronic Works 1 - 3.7 mb 20sec

Large Sample of Totentanz and other Electronic Work 2 - 15.6 mb 2min 40sec

Totentanz audio only - on Youtube

"Bugs at Large" - Youtube video art using Warner Jepson's Totentanz score

1968 The Awakening - Program

1968 The Bed - Electronic Music Score by Warner Jepson from James Broughton's Film (mp3 - 9mb, 6min 42sec)

1969 Buchla Christmas by Warner Jepson
Composed, Arranged, and Recorded by Warner Jepson at Mills College Electronic Music Studios, Oakland, California. December 1969.
Composed on the Buchla 100 Analog Modular Synthesizer. Recorded to Ampex PR-10 Tape Recorder. 

"MOMA asked me to provide music for their annual Christmas party for Children on a Saturday morning. So I took off one evening for Mills College where the Buchla now was kept... The Buchla doesn't' have a keyboard like a piano (with twelve notes to the octave), just slits in a metal plate with two tuning knobs to give each slit a pitch or a pair of pitches. I didn't have to reconstruct all twelve notes of a scale, just the notes needed in the song. Tuning what few notes I needed for each tone was fairly easy. But one carol sounded like church bells because it one of the notes sounded out of tune as some church bells because their tuning doesn't fit with a tempered tuning so goes out of tune with the other notes. At first I thought this a problem, but since it did resemble church bells it decided it added to the charm. Other sounds reminded me of lighter caroling bells as I imagined in old Germany or the Alps, at least, as I remembered hearing them. The most pleasure came when I incorporated the sequencing module that gave a tune rhythm that it never had nor would have, since it came from a synthesizer with a different kind of creativity that a human wouldn't have. The unusual rhythm added a kick to the carol. I didn't have enough carols to make a long enough session so I added here and there, especially at the end, some synthesizer music that I'd previously made on the Buchla that sounded shimmering and might evoke a starry sleigh filled night."

New! Article about Warner and Buchla Christmas; by Charles Eppley for Swingsetmagazine.com

Christmas Songs on a Buchla Box - By Warner JepsonFor SF MOMA 1969 Buchla Christmas - clip 1 1969 Buchla Christmas - clip 2 1969 Buchla Christmas - clip 3 1969 Buchla Christmas - clip 4 1969 Buchla Christmas - clip 5	Cover photograph by Warner Jepson