Harold Budd cites not music but visual art (in particular, the abstract expressionists Mark Tobey and Jackson Pollock) as his chief inspiration, although the notion that he's somehow immune to the thrill of music isn't true. As a teenager, he fell in love with the electrifying sound of bebop and went on to play drums … Continue reading Harold Budd : utterly no interest in labels
Tag: ambient
Anna Thorvaldsdottir : composer whose work conjures entire environments of sound
Anna Thorvaldsdottir is an Icelandic composer whose work conjures entire environments of sound, surrounding the listener in a dark and forbidding landscape. Anna thinks sonically; her music comes from a deeply non-verbal place, and she has developed a brilliant workflow which allows these ideas to remain mostly whole and unmolested through her creative process. Anna … Continue reading Anna Thorvaldsdottir : composer whose work conjures entire environments of sound
Antecedents of Ambient Music
It was English musician, sound designer and conceptualist Brian Eno who first officially coined the phrase “ambient music”. In the sleeve notes to his 1978 opus Ambient 1: Music For Airports he defines it as music "designed to induce calm and space to think". Eno's concept of "ambience" is music that can be either actively … Continue reading Antecedents of Ambient Music
Composer Profile: Pietro Riparbelli
Website | Bandcamp Pietro Riparbelli is a philosopher, composer and sound-multimedia artist based in Livorno (Tuscany). He studies the phenomenology of perception with particular reference to the dichotomy between the visible and the invisible closely connected to his conceptual address of the sonic landscape. His compositions have been published by Touch (UK), Radical Matters Ed/Label … Continue reading Composer Profile: Pietro Riparbelli
Pet Sound: Lawrence English
Website | Soundcloud Lawrence English is media artist, composer and curator based in Australia. Working across an eclectic array of aesthetic investigations, English’s work prompts questions of field, perception and memory. He utilizes a variety of media including live performance, audio/visual environments, found sound/vision to create his work that typifies his interests in creating experiences that create … Continue reading Pet Sound: Lawrence English
Composer Profile: Rutger Zuydervelt a/k/a Machinefabriek
Website Machinefabriek is the alias of Rutger Zuydervelt. Rutger's music combines elements of ambient, noise, minimalism, drone, field recordings and electro-acoustic experiments. His pieces can be heard as an attempt to create sonic environments for the listener to dwell in. Finding tension in texture, tone and timing, the result can be very minimalistic at … Continue reading Composer Profile: Rutger Zuydervelt a/k/a Machinefabriek
Pet Sound: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Taylor Deupree
Isolation, solitude, contemplation. These are the themes that discreetly weave their way through “Disappearance”, the first collaboration album between 12k’s Taylor Deupree and pioneering electronic composer and pianist 坂本龍一. The two began their musical dialogue in 2006 when Deupree was invited to remix a song from Sakamoto’s album “Chasm”. With the convenience of both artists living in New … Continue reading Pet Sound: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Taylor Deupree
Christina Vantzou ~ Brain Fog
Website In the last decade Christina Vantzou has gone from an art student playing around with motion graphics and animations to designing projections for touring musicians, co-founding The Dead Texan with her partner Adam Wiltzie and eventually creating her own solo audiovisual project. The Dead Texan toured extensively in 2005-2006 and in 2007 Christina was … Continue reading Christina Vantzou ~ Brain Fog
New Voice: Abul Mogard
Abul Mogard describes a recent work ~ This track is taken from my second album "Drifted Heaven" and is one of my favorite ones. I find it difficult to translate my own music into words. I can say that it's quite melancholic and it still moves me. BIOGRAPHY Abul Mogard approached music in … Continue reading New Voice: Abul Mogard
Mathias Grassow ~ Tara
Website Mathias Grassow was born in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1963. From the start, music has always been a deep passion. He played drums and guitar in the 1970s and moved on to keyboards in the early 1980s. Mathias became increasingly fascinated with the flexibility and possibility inherent in keyboards and electronics and created experimental electronic … Continue reading Mathias Grassow ~ Tara
Musica Kaleidoskopea 