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10) Become desert
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John Luther Adams' 'Become Desert' is a remarkable expansion on the ideas he developed for his Pulitzer-winning (and Grammy-winning) work, 'Become Ocean.' While not necessarily a "sequel" in the literal sense, the recording certainly shares multiple elements with its predecessor - including, most significantly, the renewal of Adam's creative partnership with conductor Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony. In his 2018 essay for the New York Times,...
18) Arctic dreams
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"Arctic Dreams was the first music I composed in my 'aeolian' sound world, which grew out of my experiences listening to wind harps on the tundra."--Container
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"Listening to the very first segment of a small aeolian harp, recorded in the Arctic in the summer of 1989, I was captivated. The voices of the wind singing through the strings of the harp brought back vividly the clarity of light, the sprawling space, and the sense of possibility I had felt. Houses of the Wind (2021-22) is composed entirely from that single ten-and-a-half-minute recording, transposed, layered on itself, and sculpted into five new...