Ann McMillan's Gateway Summer Sound (1979) reissued by Smithsonian Folkways, May 2020

Gateway Summer Sound: Abstracted Animal and Other Sounds - original album by Ann McMillan from 1979 was re-released on digital services by Smithsonian Folkways in 2020. 

A student of groundbreaking composer Edgard Varèse, McMillan’s primary medium was magnetic tape, which she manipulated to create surreal soundscapes. On Gateway Summer Sounds, her debut album released on Folkways in 1979 and recorded at the legendary Princeton-Columbia Electronic Music Center, she sources sounds from the natural world – frogs, insects, field recordings from the Gateway National Recreation Area in New York Harbor – along with gongs, bells, and a harpsichord to conceive remarkable, hypnagogic compositions.