2019 Elettrorama 2019 Giampiero Boneschi's Electronic Sound Ps- Thanks to @rostasi for the introduction. It made a great soundtrack for checking in on the owlets. At around 04:35 one is trying to get down a mouse and then struggles to eat a little bird feet first. The little wings keep getting caught no matter how hard it shakes it.
This is invaluable documentation of the electro-acoustic works of Roger Reynolds. The product of time spent at IRCAM, Pierre Boulez' Paris institute, some of the pieces bear a strong resemblance to "Repons," the highest-profile Boulez composition using the state-of-the-art IRCAM technology. This is even less surprising since they were recorded by Boulez's Ensemble Intercontemporain.
"Archipelago" was composed in 1982-3, for 32 instruments and 8 tracks of computer generated sound. On hearing a performance, John Cage said to Reynolds "[t]his should keep you busy for the rest of your life," because of its rich complexity. "Summer Island" and "Autumn Island" are spin-offs of "Archipelago," featuring oboe and marimba respectively. "Summer Island" is stunningly beautiful, the easiest piece on the disc to appreciate on first hearing.
"Odyssey, an opera in the mind" (1989-93) is a difficult work, to say the least. I will be listening to it alongside Nono's "Prometeo" for years, I'm sure, plumbing its depths. Featuring text from a poem by Samuel Beckett, Reynolds, believe it or not, uses equations from chaos theory to organize the computer-manipulated vocals, using the lyrical pitch structures of the voices as the basis for sound reorganization.
I remain convinced that Roger Reynolds is one of our most under-recognized contemporary composers, one of America's finest alongside Elliott Carter and Morton Feldman. – Amazon editorial review
Ps- Thanks to @rostasi for the introduction. It made a great soundtrack for checking in on the owlets. At around 04:35 one is trying to get down a mouse and then struggles to eat a little bird feet first. The little wings keep getting caught no matter how hard it shakes it.
I get very sad tho when they catch other birds for food - fish, I’m OK with ... voles, I’m kinda OK with ... big worms ...yeah, but when I see the woodpecker in there now, I get very sad. We have a woodpecker family that visits right outside my studio window nearly every day. I know it’s nature at work, but...
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2010 The Way To Build Your Future 2010 Two Hemispheres, Two Worlds
2011 Celestial Funerals 2012 Nuclear Winter
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2012 Inner Solitude 2013 Night Walk With Me
2019 Natural Storm
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2007 The Gang Font Feat. Interloper
2005 Armory Radio 2010 Bongo Closet
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2009 Circulations 2012 More Circulations
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1978 Futuribile (The Life To Come)
2019 Elettrorama 2019 Giampiero Boneschi's Electronic Sound
Ps- Thanks to @rostasi for the introduction. It made a great soundtrack for checking in on the owlets. At around 04:35 one is trying to get down a mouse and then struggles to eat a little bird feet first. The little wings keep getting caught no matter how hard it shakes it.
2006 The Swell Season (Glen Hansard/Marketa Irglova) 2015 Didn't He Ramble
- The Swell Season
2019 This Wild Willing
This is invaluable documentation of the electro-acoustic works of Roger Reynolds. The product of time spent at IRCAM, Pierre Boulez' Paris institute, some of the pieces bear a strong resemblance to "Repons," the highest-profile Boulez composition using the state-of-the-art IRCAM technology. This is even less surprising since they were recorded by Boulez's Ensemble Intercontemporain.
"Archipelago" was composed in 1982-3, for 32 instruments and 8 tracks of computer generated sound. On hearing a performance, John Cage said to Reynolds "[t]his should keep you busy for the rest of your life," because of its rich complexity. "Summer Island" and "Autumn Island" are spin-offs of "Archipelago," featuring oboe and marimba respectively. "Summer Island" is stunningly beautiful, the easiest piece on the disc to appreciate on first hearing.
"Odyssey, an opera in the mind" (1989-93) is a difficult work, to say the least. I will be listening to it alongside Nono's "Prometeo" for years, I'm sure, plumbing its depths. Featuring text from a poem by Samuel Beckett, Reynolds, believe it or not, uses equations from chaos theory to organize the computer-manipulated vocals, using the lyrical pitch structures of the voices as the basis for sound reorganization.
I remain convinced that Roger Reynolds is one of our most under-recognized contemporary composers, one of America's finest alongside Elliott Carter and Morton Feldman. – Amazon editorial review
Thanks for the reminder, easing my way into Sunday morning with this. Note the credit is for Reginald Workman - but what a band!
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Recorded 2016/17 Fleisch III 2017 Cielo
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Amazingly, at one stage in the Eighties this CD outsold all other CD sales combined in the World!!
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2020 Antibodies
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