back in 1984 when we first had a cd player, my dad got a cd, the electric v, and some years later i came across it and listened to it. it's a kind of reworking of vivaldi's four seasons. i really liked it, so he let me have it, but it was only one of the two cd set - i found the other online used. it's been out of print since 1984, as far as i can tell.
the music is reworked in different ways, and he adds sound texture to some tracks - birds chirping, rain and thunder, leaves crunching underfoot, a dog barking, a bell tolling. and the track titles are imaginative - the electric bird, the movie, the glass bead game, idyll (with birds), the san marco sequence, dancing (at crystal palace).
he only has one other cd that i'm aware of, called transforming v: variations on vivaldi. i found it used as well. it has titles like this game (round for four alienated players), balancing the night, silent journey, the minimal event, landscape with chime, music for a small room, sea the soul.
i uploaded this song from the electric v to youtube, the meditation, from summer - it's 11 minutes but is good as background music. or foreground. the painting by brian froud seems to go along with it.
the only other wilbrandt song on youtube was this one, the movie, from spring.
anyway, i find his music inspiring. i just wish he had made more.
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