Cold Blue Music's John Luther Adams: The place we began springs forth from a little bit of creative recycling; running into some boxes of unfinished tape compositions dating back to the early '70s, Adams decided to reshape these artifacts into something new. The electronic sounds are certainly vintage; analog tones ranging from high squeals to low, rumbling frequencies, but the specific spatial directionality relatively easy to achieve with digital mixing and editing in the 2000s did not exist in the 1970s. You could get a ...
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Cold Blue Music's John Luther Adams: The place we began springs forth from a little bit of creative recycling; running into some boxes of unfinished tape compositions dating back to the early '70s, Adams decided to reshape these artifacts into something new. The electronic sounds are certainly vintage; analog tones ranging from high squeals to low, rumbling frequencies, but the specific spatial directionality relatively easy to achieve with digital mixing and editing in the 2000s did not exist in the 1970s. You could get a dim approximation of it, but in the spaces you didn't use there would be tape hiss and that tended to flatten everything out. Adams isn't restoring an already existing work so much as he is fashioning a new garment out of old cloth and the result is at times magical and falls right in with his concepts of sound and space, even if in comparison to his instrumental works such as In the White Silence it is far less elaborate and gripping. This music seldom, if ever, raises its voice,...
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