"Ecosphere, Rand Steiger’s latest collection of works for instrumental ensemble and electronics, offers a veiled musical landscape that features two conjoined aspects of the composer’s aesthetic. Concrete musical objects, marked by harmonic clarity and rhythmic propulsion, are treated by technology to create inflected musical structures, in which distinctions between live and processed sounds are often ambiguous ... The result is a world that is suspended between the familiar and strange, the wakeful and the dreamlike." — Steven Schick
A few words from Rand Steiger:
The tracks:
'Dreamscape' (2004) , performed by Mosaic (Edward Aaron, cello; Steven Beck, piano;
Daniel Druckman, percussion; Zizi Mueller, flute);
Dreamscape (excerpt)
'Traversing' (2005), performed by Matthew Barley, solo cello, Southbank Sinfonia, Peter Wiegold, conductor;
Traversing (excerpt)
'Nested Etudes For Oboe' (2006)', Karisa Werdon, oboe; and
Nested Etudes (excerpt)
'Ecosphere' (2002) , performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain, Patrick Davin, conductor, Olivier Pasquet, electronics.
Ecosphere (excerpt)
Note: This package contains a normal audio CD for stereo listening and a bonus DVD. 'Dreamscape' and 'Ecosphere' make extensive use of dynamic audio spatialization and are best heard in the 5.1 channel versions on the included DVD, which may be played on any home theater system with a compatible DVD player.
Normal retail price $16
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