Neil Gaiman reads from the only surviving "prompt copy" – Dickens's own performance script – of "A Christmas Carol." Background, context, and some curious factoids here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/12/23/neil-gaiman-reads-charles-dickens-a-christmas-carol

Neil Gaiman reads Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol"

This free promo version presents the first 8 minutes of the 68' minute album. White/Clear Vinyl 2xLP and CD for sale at Denovali (Denovali den215). 

“Somehow reminiscent of Arvo Pärt’s ‘Für Alina‘, sharing the same stripped-back aesthetic and fragilely unstable equilibrium, ‘Tiento de las Nieves‘ is most certainly a deep and fascinating musical awakening. “(source: inverted audio com)
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released 31 October 2014 

Piano: Ivana Neimarevic 

Tiento de las Nieves promo

Acousmatic composition realised in 6th-order 3D ambisonics. This is an short extract from the middle of the composition, rendered to 'normal' stereo. The original composition is 17'00. More info here:
http://www.natashabarrett.org/Involuntary_Expression.html

Full length on: https://www.sargasso.com/product/natasha-barrett-leap-seconds/

Involuntary Expression Stereo Extract. Full length now released! See info

Download the free sampler at https://prosoundeffects.com/bugs

Create mood and texture in your ambiences and designs with buzzes, chirps, swarms, and swells – recorded and designed by film sound legends Ann Kroeber & Alan Splet.

Beautiful Bugs - Demo

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Anthony Burr and Charles Curtis present this collection of curated compositions from Alvin Lucier and Morton Feldman. Two Lucier pieces, August Moon and Trio For Clarinet, Cello & Tuba are presented here for the first time. Liner notes are excerpted from a lecture on Morton Feldman given by Alvin Lucier. 

“For Feldman, dynamics serve an acoustical function. When he mitigates a piano attack he reduces that spike of noise that’s at the onset of every piano sound leaving only the sinusoidal pure after-sound. It’s as if he invented electronic music with the piano.” Alvin Lucier from liner notes. 

“Lucier manages to hear a layer of acoustical physics in Feldman’s music that perhaps no one else would hear. He’s hearing something in Feldman that is actually coming from his own musical world; in a way, hearing his own music in Feldman’s, and drawing inspiration from that.”

Chamber Music:  Morton Feldman - 3 Clarinets, Cello And Piano (1960) - Anthony Burr/Charles Curtis

A tribute to a lifelong influence of mine, Jon Hassell. With a contribution from Vincent Eoppolo (track available for remix here: https://soundcloud.com/vincent_eoppolo/shared-experience-1) and Clint Irwin of https://soundcloud.com/user-153328599

I'll admit that it's more a reference to those intoxicating tropical atmospheres that Hassell creates, without the exotic modal scales that typify his extraordinary soloing, but I hope this at least triggers some recollections... maybe some good day-dreams.

Mastered by Shawn Hatfield 2020
Music © 2020 - All Rights Reserved

Dream Theory In Hamilton Park - tribute to Jon Hassell w Vincent Eoppolo

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
John Malkovich, narrator

Copland Lincoln Portrait

Splitter der Stille für Streichquartett und Akkordeon
Sonar Quartett Berlin & Andreas Borregaard

Splitter der Stille

Spotted Laughing Thrush and other songbirds call in a frozen Himalayan meadow in Nepal. 

This is an excerpt from the album "Himalayan Dawn" available as a FLAC or mp3 download for $6.95 from https://wildambience.com/albums/himalayan-dawn/

Himalayan Meadow

Himalayan Meadow - Recorded in Langtang National Park, Nepal

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim, conductor

Wagner: Overture to Rienzi (January 1999)

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Neil Gaiman reads Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol"

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