Art of the StatesArt of the States: listen to new music from the USRecent Additions: Dormant Craters (1995) by Henry Brant- June 21, 2008 "Whether or not the sound of this piece has any connection with dormant volcanic craters, I am hardly in a position to say; but the craters I mean are the latent explosions we don't know about yet, both in the human sphere and in the natural world."http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=358 Recent Additions: Midnight Oil (2001) by Paul Koonce- June 5, 2008 "Midnight Oil is a study on the effect of tuning on our perception of sound, instrument, timbre, and voice ... I like to think of the resulting experience as one that takes the listener from a familiar, equal-tempered world of musical sound, where instruments are in tune with each other but out of tune with themselves, to a new place where instruments, increasingly in tune with themselves, become, ironically, out of tune with each other."http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=359 |