Детали релиза : Carolyn Yarnell - Sonic Vision (2003) [FLAC (image + .cue)]

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Bio

Carolyn Yarnell was born in California and raised in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. She began composing at age six, and taught herself notation by twelve. After initial experiences in avant-rock and jazz bands, at twenty-two she moved permanently to classical on hearing the premiere of her orchestral work First Music. In addition to being agraduate of the San Francisco Conservatiry of Music and Yale, she has held fellowships at Aspen, Tanglewood, Yaddo, MacDowell, and is a founding member of The Common Sense Composers Collective. Fascinated with rocks and natural wonders, she spent a year living in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar, where she composed the orchestral pieces Living Mountains, White June and Andromeda.

A winner of the prestigious Rome Prize, she spent a year in Italy and from there traveled extensively throughout North Africa and Europe. Yarnell's music is inspired largely by landscape and circumstance. The isolation of the Sierra Nevadas where she grew up, the volcanic tundra of Iceland, the vast archeological excavations of the Tunisian desert, the rush of NYC, all are echoed in the broad pacing and fluid transitions of her work. Counterbalancing this is the exuberant, even chaotic uproar of a richly-lived life. An accomplished painter, as well as a writer, her recent activities include finishing an autobiography entitled Baby Girl, collecting rocks and exploring the world.

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Tzadik

Inspired by the beauty and power of nature, the music of Carolyn Yarnell straddles the borders of minimalism, romanticism and Baroque. A maverick in the American tradition of Partch, Ruggles and Riley, her compositions have been performed worldwide by orchestras, chamber groups and soloists such as Kathleen Supove, who is a fervent champion of her work. Sonic Vision, the first CD devoted entirely to her music, contains the powerful electronic composition Love God, a beautiful solo piece for Baroque flute, a minimalist suite for chamber ensemble and a powerful extended work for computer piano. Lyrical and mystical music that evokes volcanoes, birds and the Rocky Mountains.

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The Same Sky




"The Same Sky takes Katheleen Supove's critically acclaimed series The Exploding Piano to heart. Scored for piano solo, computer and video (visuals by software designer Eric Wenger), The Same Sky aesthetically explodes the piano, merging past performance technique with present technology. The computer music functions as counterpoint, enhancing, expanding the sonorities, dynamics, and Bachian figures of the pianoforte solo. The video recalls earlier visions of art with music in that many early keyboard instruments had beautiful paintings on the inside lid, only this art was choreographed specifically for the composition and then linked with computer counterpoint.

I was wathing a movie one night, the setting was an amazing 14th century Venetian Gothic Palazzo over-looking the Grand Canal. On the landing of a white marble staircase was a table whith an enormous vase filled with flowers, a window beside. The place was amazing and I found myself wishing I lived some where like that... could always have flowers so lovely. And then the motion picture panned across the pale ornate wall and out the open window into the stunningly beatiful sky. At that moment I realized that no matter what we may have in this life, we share the same sky."

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More Spirit Than Matter...





More Spirit than Matter...
not so much seen, as felt
tone melody, line, chaconne
more breath than bone

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Love God







If you loved me,
why'd you go?
Transformation
to ash in snow.

ashes...

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10/18





Burning Man was composed in the loft of an RV in the Black Rock desert during a dust storm at the 1998 Burning Man Festival.

Breathless was written at home. The piece gets its name from the day I finished the entire composition, which happens to be Stephen's birthday, October 18.

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