Listening beam five / Crystal Mooncone.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Crystal Mooncone (Musical group), composer, performer.

Language:

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Computer music.

Ambient music.

New Age music.

Live sound recordings.

Genre:

Computer music.

Electronica (Music)

New Age music.

Live sound recordings.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

St. Paul, Minn. : Innova, [2017]

System Details:

digital optical stereo

audio file CD audio

Summary:

Crystal Mooncone (Stephen Rush, Chris Peck and Jon Moniaci) is an electroacoustic band with a psychedelic sensibility, mixing playful interaction with committed listening and melding virtuosic musicianship with a taste for risk. In the ten years they've performed together they've developed a compositional process akin to Zen calligraphy -- a blend of spontaneity and precision. The trio plumbs the unknown through this process, honing their collective musical decision-making while still delighting in the unexpected. The result is a rich, textured sound that blends old and new technologies, hi-fi and lo-fi, acoustic and electronic, analog and digital, familiar and unfamiliar, nostalgic and futuristic. Instruments such as piano and flute collide with hardware and plumbing supplies. Whimsical instruments like slide whistles and bike horns take on serious prominence. Crystal Mooncone conjures cinematic landscapes anchored by moments of exquisite sonic detail and musicality. Listening Beam Five is Crystal Mooncone's fifth album. Each member is an accomplished composer and artist in his own right. Rush is a Professor of Music at the University of Michigan and has performed with Roscoe Mitchell, Pauline Oliveros, Elliott Sharp and more, including orchestral, chamber and solo works on over thirty albums. Peck has a longstanding engagement as a collaborator with contemporary dance and performance companies in Los Angeles, Brussels and elsewhere. He teaches music courses at the global Arts Studies Program at the University of California Merced. Moniaci also frequently collaborates with dance makers. In 2011 he received a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award for his score for choreographer Beth Gill's Electric Midwife.

Contents:

Fossil tears (8:51)

Los Senderos de Mitras (3:21)

Homage (4:00)

Imaginary azimuths (3:29)

Leeward side (5:51)

Perth Airport (4:41)

Rocky's landscape (9:25)

Light tunnel (14:13).

Participant:

Crystal Mooncone (Stephen Rush, Chris Peck and Jon Moniaci)

Notes:

Recorded live 2014 March CCRMA Stage, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. and Klowden Mann Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif.

Track list and credits on container.

OCLC:

985347151

Publisher Number:

726708697327

973 Innova

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