“Irv Teibel was an audio polymath, ambient and new age music pioneer and the founder of Syntonic Research, Inc., the record label responsible for the influential ‘Environments’ series (1969-1979). These records were the first publicly available psychoacoustic recordings and helped ignite a flurry of interest in environmental sound. … Over the years, the ‘Environments’ recordings found major national, international, and, as Irv claimed, interstellar audiences (‘Environments 6’ might have been included in the ‘Sounds of Earth’ collage compiled by Carl Sagan and his team and placed aboard Voyager Spacecraft’s ‘Golden Record’).”
–Irv Teibel archive, home and bio
Photo: Teibel archive