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Author Adams, John Luther, 1953- author.

Title The place where you go to listen : in search of an ecology of music / John Luther Adams.

Publication Info. Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML410 .A317 A3 2009    Available  ---
Description xvi, 160 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
Contents In search of an ecology of music. The breath of the world ; Locus ex Machina ; Real time ; Working in place ; Two minds -- A composer's journal, part I : always getting ready : December 21, 2003, to August 18, 2004 -- A composer's journal, part II : studio notes : September 1, 2004, to May 18, 2005 -- A composer's journal, part III : in the place : May 27, 2005, to March 30, 2006 -- Hearing where we are. The romance of the real ; The world is listening ; Resonant space ; Things we haven't heard before -- An ecosystem of sound and light. Mapping the terrain ; The colors of noise and tone ; "An orchestration of untouched material" ; The light that fills the world ; The choirs of day and night ; The voices within ; The voice of the moon ; Aurora bells ; Earth drums ; The sonic space ; The one who listens.
Note Includes discography.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Did Alaska create the music of John Luther Adams, or did the music create his Alaska? In this new book Adams proposes a musical ecology, the philosophical foundation on which his largest, most complex musical work is based-a sound and light environment that Adams describes as "a place for hearing the unheard music of the world around us." The book includes two seminal essays, the composer's journal, musical notations, and illustrations."--Jacket.
Language English text.
Subject Adams, John Luther, 1953-
Adams, John Luther, 1953-
Composers -- Alaska -- Biography.
Composers.
Alaska.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Adams, John Luther, 1953- Place where you go to listen.
Genre/Form Diaries.
Diaries.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Added Author Ross, Alex, 1968- writer of supplementary textual content.
ISBN 9780819569035 (paperback)
0819569038 (paperback)