All of the music on this album was composed between 1972 and 1983, created for four-channel audio using the Buchla 200 analog modular synthesizer. The album's title refers to Lost Atlantis, a previous release by the composer, and the fact that, over time, parts of the compositions herein have been lost. Readers of this journal will no doubt have an appreciation for this situation. With each new operating system, platform, program version, or hardware upgrade information can be, and often is, simply lost by becoming inaccessible. On a personal note, Schrader writes in his liner notes: “As I write this, realizing that some of this music hasn't been heard in public for almost fifty years, I'm taken back to much earlier days in my life and career, which, although remembered, are also lost, as are all of our pasts.” Composers of a certain age most certainly relate to this....

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