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21 tracks | 78 minutes
Released Aug 2005
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:31 The Far Field/Inputs: Stimuli BUY MP3 02:31 The Far Field/Inputs: Stimuli "GIFT MP3" 02:31 The Far Field/Inputs: Stimuli
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A voyage of deep-consciousness experimental ambience -- synthesized streams between shape, mood, and pattern-texture construction which create "Stories in Sound".
Bio / Background
Stimuli picks up where Brian Eno's Music For Airports, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, and Terry Riley's In C left off. Boston-area composers Lauri des Marais and Erik Lindgren dovetail their individual musical strengths and concoct a radically fresh approach that integrates structured composition, sound design, Musique concrète, and impressionistic exploratory narrative.
On this 79-minute disc are four sonically innovative and conceptually inventive Stories In Sound, a phrase coined by Lauri to describe her work. Works include: the five-movement "X-Opera" Rude Awakenings for trio, phone answering machine messages and synthesized stream (libretto by Simon & Schuster author Pagan Kennedy); The Far Field/Inputs, which blends found sound and prepared piano with radical teutonic underscoring; the mood-shifting 13 Transitions {excerpts] for voice, synthesizer and guitar with shades of Nico, plus des Marais' ethereal 22-minute audio essay Backdrops 3: In Accepted Translations, in 4 Parts.
↓ more ↓Des Marais has studied the practice of Deep Listening and has performed with Pauline Oliveros.
Here's some of the reaction from the press and media upon the release of 'Stimuli':
"Lauri des Marais is on the cutting edge of experimental music." - American Composers Forum
"It is wonderful to find some modern classical that is both avant-garde yet melodically engaging, interesting and appealing, technologically innovative yet listener friendly ...Beautiful, haunting, engaging Stimuli!" - Lloyd Barrett, Radio 4ZZZ, Australia
"...I discover Lauri des Marais, certainly an artist to keep in sight. I love (Stimuli). Very strong. A very striking record." - François Couture, CFLX, Quebec, Canada
"Lauri des Marais (creates) dark soundscapes, huzzing thrums of quiet and oblique sound... (with) butoh-like development." - Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix
"(Lauri des Marais') works are equally inventive and musically compelling." - Dean Suzuki, Progression magazine
i saw in the water the clouds and the stars
in the clouds the tiger's stripes
in the tiger's stripes a face the clouds and the stars
in the clouds the fish
in the fish cave drawings
in the cave drawings hieroglyphics
through lines-i sense
-- Lauri des Marais
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