Lake Eden is for open instrumentation and was written for Relâche, a new music group from Philadelphia. It has four sections played in a progressive quasi-rondo form. Each section has a number of phrases, except for the first section, which has only one. The performers select a phrase from each section every time they go through the rondo form. Upon successive repetitions the phrases chosen can either be the same or different than the ones chosen previously. "The title came to me on a hot, sticky day in New York when I was writing the piece, and I remembered Lake Eden, a beautiful little lake in Vermont that I used to go to every day in the summer."
Concert recording at the One Aught Festival in 2001 - Vermont Contemporary Ensemble.

Lake Eden

I've decided to release all the music here as free downloads. The Lunar Asylum is a loose accumulation of musicians that have been playing together for the last 50 years. Almost all of our music is completely improvised. All communication is telepathic by nature. We seldom crawl out in public.

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MARY JANE LEACH is a composer/performer whose work reveals a fascination with the physicality of sound, its acoustic properties and how they interact with space. In many of her works Leach creates an other-worldly sound environment using difference, combination, and interference tones; these are tones not actually sounded by the performers, but acoustic phenomena arising from Leach’s deft manipulation of intonation and timbral qualities: “an acoustic Through the Looking Glass world based on sound that the performer is not making.” (The New Yorker).

Lake Eden

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