Marais,laurie Des / Lindgren,erik - Stimuli / Stories In Sound 1 - Music CD
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Stimuli picks up where Brian Eno's Music For Airports, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, and Terry Riley's In C left off. Boston-area composers Lauri des Marais and Erik Lindgren dovetail their individual musical strengths and concoct a radically fresh approach that integrates structured composition, sound design, Musique concrte, and impressionistic exploratory narrative. On this 79-minute disc are four sonically innovative and conceptually inventive Stories In Sound, a phrase coined by Lauri to describe her work. Works include: the five-movement 'X-Opera' Rude Awakenings for trio, phone answering machine messages and synthesized stream (libretto by Simon & Schuster author Pagan Kennedy); The Far Field/Inputs, which blends found sound and prepared piano with radical teutonic underscoring; the mood-shifting 13 Transitions {excerpts] for voice, synthesizer and guitar with shades of Nico, plus des Marais' ethereal 22-minute audio essay Backdrops 3: In Accepted Translations, in 4 Parts. Lauri practices Deep Listening and has performed several times with Pauline Oliveros. Samples of her work can be found at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music library, with special thanks to Pauline Oliveros. Here's some of the reaction from the press and media upon the release of 'Stimuli': 'Lauri des Marais is on the cutting edge of experimental music.' - American Composers Forum 'It is wonderful to find some modern classical that is both avant-garde yet melodically engaging, interesting and appealing, technologically innovative yet listener friendly... Beautiful, haunting, engaging Stimuli!' - Lloyd Barrett, Radio 4ZZZ, Australia '... I discover Lauri des Marais, certainly an artist to keep in sight. I love (Stimuli). Very strong. A very striking record.' - Franois Couture, CFLX, Quebec, Canada 'Lauri des Marais (creates) dark soundscapes, huzzing thrums of quiet and oblique sound... (with) butoh-like development.' - Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix '(Lauri des Marais') works are equally inventive and musically compelling.' - Dean Suzuki, Progression magazine i saw in the water the clouds and the stars in the clouds the tiger's stripes in the tiger's stripes a face the clouds and the stars in the clouds the fish in the fish cave drawings in the cave drawings hieroglyphics through lines-i sense - Lauri des Marais.
Marais,laurie Des / Lindgren,erik - Stimuli / Stories In Sound 1 - Music CD
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