Детали релиза : Noah Creshevsky - The Twilight of the Gods (2010) [FLAC (tracks + .cue)]

Noah Creshevsky (January 31, 1945 in Rochester, New York) is a composer who studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Conservatoire de musique in Paris and with Luciano Berio at Juilliard school of music in New-York. Noah Creshevsky is the former director of the Center for computer music and now Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College of the City of New York.

I have been composing electronic music for more than thirty years. Common to all of my music is the use of expanded sonic palettes. My goal has been to create a body of work using a novel but natural, versatile, and expressive musical language. My focus on extended musical palettes mirrors the belief that individuals and societies are improved through broad inclusion. Much of my musical vocabulary consists of familiar bits of words, songs, and instrumental music which are deconstructed into minute fragments, subjected to a variety of electronic processes, and finally reassembled in ways that bear little or no discernible relationship to their original sources. The result is a sound at once nearly human and tangentially electronic, but never fully one or the other. Allusions to Middle Eastern, Asian, and Western sacred, secular, popular, and classical instrumental and vocal music seek to produce hypothetical performers of indeterminate identity--simultaneously male and female, Western and non-Western, ancient and modern, familiar and unfamiliar.

Active in electronic composition since 1971, Creshevsky delights in presenting extreme and unpredictable juxtapositions in which the integration of electronic and acoustic sources and processes creates virtual "superperformers" by using the sounds of traditional instruments pushed past human capacities. Creshevsky uses the term Hyperrealism to describe his electroacoustic language constructed from found sounds, handled in ways that are exaggerated or intense. The second Tzadik CD by this modern magus of electronica presents a fabulous and diverse program sampling voice, orchestra, electronics, pop music and more.