John Adams
The Place We Began
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John Luther Adams's The Place We Began contains four mysteriously evocative electro-acoustic works that the composer built from short recorded moments—audio fragments—of his early music (circa the early 1970s). This is not a trip down Memory Lane: in The Place We Began, Adams has reappropriated and transformed these sonic fragments into completely new works that speak to his current musical interests and directions, especially his recent installation pieces, and refer to his past only in ways that are highly personal and conceptual. (Realized by the composer at his studio outside Fairbanks, Alaska.)
“John Luther Adams is a great underappreciated composer who has written music of enormous beauty and sophistication while staying true to his roots as an outsider.” —Bruce Toub, Sequenza21
“Shimmering, vast, luminous, ecstatic.…” —Kyle Gann
Release notes
“… to return to the place we began and know it for the first time …” – T. S. Eliot "Last summer in my studio I discovered several boxes of reel-to-reel tapes that I’d recorded in the early 1970s. Using those found objects, I sculpted these new soundscapes from fragments of my past." – JLA Cover and pages 2-3 photographs courtesy of Center for Land Use Interpretation (www.clui.com). Special thanks to Len, Noah and, as always, to Cynthia All compositions © Taiga Press (BMI). CD ©℗ 2009 Cold…
| 1 | In A Room | 8:31 | |
| 2 | At A Still Point | 12:28 | |
| 3 | In The Rain | 8:53 | |
| 4 | The Place We Began | 8:16 |
- John Adams
- Composed By, Liner Notes, Producer
- Jim Fox
- Design, Producer
- T. S. Eliot
- Liner Notes [Quote]
- Scott Fraser
- Mastered By
- Nathaniel Reichman
- Mastered By [Pre-Mastering]
- Richard Friedman
- Photography By [Traycard Photograph]
