Kingtone

I just discovered a composer named John Luther Adams. He may be my new favorite composer of all time…influenced by minimalism, but something beyond as well. His piece, The Place captures the great outdoors, using data input from all over the state of Alaska to capture the sound of earthquakes, aurora borealis, the sun, the night…the out there…damn.

Check out this recent New Yorker article and don’t forget to listen to the audio clip at the bottom of his new symphonic piece, Dark Waves. It is truly beautiful and ’suggests a huge entity, of indeterminate shape, that approaches slowly, exerts apocalyptic force, and then recedes.’