Way Out (sci-fi anthology, hosted by Roald Dahl)
(CBS Primetime, 1961)
[An ambitious effort to duplicate the success of Rod Serling's
"Twilight Zone" placed this series as a "lead-in" just before
"Twilight Zone" on the CBS schedule. It's host was noted short
story author Roald Dahl. The effort was unsucessful, and CBS
cancelled it just three and a half months after its debut...]
Theme: "Way Out"
[above is title listed in Craig W. Patillo's "TV Theme
Soundtrack Directory"; Luening and Ussachevsky were a a
pioneering team in what was known as "Electro-Acoustical
Music" -- composing music using edited tape sounds -- what
would be called "sound samples" today -- but no
synthesizers were in existence when they began in the
1940s, so they had to do it the old-fashioned way, with
razor blades and an audio tape editing block. Luening and
Ussachevsky were East Coast composers/professors who also
founded the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in
the 1950s, and taught many of the pioneers of 20th
century avant garde music and electronic music
synthesis...]
Composers: Otto Luening (BMI), and
Vladimir A. Ussachevsky (BMI)
2001 Publishers: [not listed in ASCAP or BMI]
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