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Joseph Hunter Byrd Jr. (born December 19, 1937) is an American composer, musician and academic. After first becoming known as an experimental composer in New York City and Los Angeles in the early and mid-1960s, he became the leader of The United States of America , an innovative but short-lived band that integrated electronic sound and radical ...
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Aug. 26, 2004. The following interview with Joseph Byrd - composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, sound designer and so on - is maybe the one for which I am the happiest on a personal level. Which could be of no importance for the reader, save for the fact that Joseph Byrd was the principal motivator behind two (rightly) celebrated albums ...
The United States of America was an American experimental rock band founded in Los Angeles in 1967 by composer Joseph Byrd and vocalist Dorothy Moskowitz, with electric violinist Gordon Marron, bassist Rand Forbes and drummer Craig Woodson.
By the summer of 1967, Byrd had dropped out of U.C.L.A. to become once more a full-time experimental composer and happening-producer. Today, Joe is a recognized composer and arranger who plays electronic music, organ, electric harpsichord and, occasionally, calliope.
The American Metaphysical Circus is a 1969 album by Joseph "Joe" Byrd. It was recorded after his departure from the band The United States of America , and featured some of the earliest recorded work in rock music extensively utilizing synthesizers and vocoder , along with an extended group of West Coast studio musicians Byrd named "The Field ...
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Feb 1, 2013 · The imaginative and carefully crafted music of Joseph Byrd (b 1937) assumes an astonishing variety of guises: he was an integral part of the experimental arts scene in New York and Los Angeles in the 1960s and he founded the psychedelic rock band The United States of America, and its successor Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies, to name just the ...
