Art of the StatesArt of the States: listen to new music from the USRecent Additions: Nosturnos (19912003) by Arthur Kampela- May 31, 2007 "The most important compositional aspect of this piece, thus, has to do with the way I hear andor reinterpret the styles and techniques of previous and contemporary generations of composers ... The 'styles' appear isolated from their historical context and become a field of color or a timbristic pattern. They are disembodied acoustical 'accretions' or 'leftovers' of musical objects collected from diverse stages of music's history that are now recognized as cultural carcass, hollow aggregates of.http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=345 Recent Additions: Acouasm (2001) by Robert Scott Thompson- May 15, 2007 "How often does a memory reside only in audition Just the sound of an experience bereft of visual, olfactory, or tactile dimension reminding us of a specific experience Quite often the auditory resonance of an event, the words uttered, the song playing on the radio, or the ambient sounds heard accompanying the experiential context are the only memories left reverberating in consciousness. Sometimes these aural images recede into memory extremely slowly. Sometimes they remain indelible."http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=346 |