String Noise, the intrepid violin duo of Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris, celebrates its tenth anniversary in grand style with the simultaneous release of three new recordings on Friday, March 26.
Originally published on December 10, 2020 11:49 am
This has been a booming year for composer John Luther Adams. His 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning orchestral work
Become Ocean has been re-released as part of a trilogy. Recordings of new string quartets have just come out. And he s just published a memoir,
Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska. The title was inspired by a line in Listening in October, a poem from the late John Haines:
There are silences so deep
you can hear
enormous footsteps
downward in a freezing earth.
For a young Adams, that freezing earth was Alaska. Adams grew up in the suburbs of the Lower 48, and studied music composition and percussion near Los Angeles. When he went to Alaska, he went as an environmentalist, not a composer. But the state and its scale led him to devote himself to transforming experiences of place into sonic space.
Composer John Luther Adams wrote his memoir,
Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska, based on the decades he spent living and working in the Arctic. Pete Woodhead/Courtesy of the artist
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Composer John Luther Adams wrote his memoir,
Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska, based on the decades he spent living and working in the Arctic. Pete Woodhead/Courtesy of the artist
This has been a booming year for composer John Luther Adams. His 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning orchestral work
Become Ocean has been re-released as part of a trilogy. Recordings of new string quartets have just come out. And he s just published a memoir,