This Same Temple

Editorial Reviews
Mark Sullivan, OP Magazine
"Two pieces which explore repetitive processes in an individual accomplished way. Both pieces successfully integrate traditional values with a minimalist vocabulary."

Dean Suzuki, Wired
"Paul Dresher is perhaps the best of the post-minimalist composers who learned at the altar of Reich, Riley, and Glass. Highly acclaimed for his music-theater pieces, Dresher demonstrates a versatility that transcends categorization."

Album Description
The works on this CD are all from what Dresher considers to be his first phase of composition in his own musical voice, ranging from 1976 through 1985. They focus entirely on the three instruments he knew best and has worked with since childhood: the guitar, the piano and the tape recorder.

Liquid and Stellar Music began as an idea for a sonic world while working with Terry Riley at Mills College and was working exclusively with the electric guitar. Through the use of a four-channel tape machine with three playback heads located at various points in the path of a closed loop of variable speed, system, it is possible for the performer to build up complex textural, harmonic or rhythmic structures through what is essentially a process of live multi-track recording (and playback, erasing and mixing).

Destiny draws its surface unabashedly from the idiom of rock and roll yet it is contrapuntally and polyrhythmically organized via processes normally associated with other domains. At this time, Dresher was "grappling with the diverse and contrary influences of both rock î roll, world music and contemporary 'art' music. This work was a direct attempt to reconcile these differences and incorporate the qualities of each which I find inspirational."

In Water Dreams the sounds of water in many contexts (rain, ocean waves, lakes, rivers, streams and drips) form the basic sonic palette. The composition is a hybrid of these acoustic sounds (manipulated only with equalization and tape speed alterations), synthesized sounds (Yamaha DX-7) and sampled acoustic sounds.

This Same Temple was premiered by the East Bay New Music Ensemble in the Fall of 1976 with Rae Imamura and Phil Aaberg at the pianos. Dresher says, "The work clearly owes a debt to Steve Reich, with whose ensemble I played briefly in the summer of 1974. It was through Steve that I met Nurit Tilles to whom I turned when I wanted to record the work."

This Same Temple

This Same Temple, Music, Paul Dresher, Gene Reffkin, Double Edge, Paul Dresher, Edward Neimann, Nurit Tilles, Sarah Willner, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Electronic, Electronic/Computer/Tape Music, Experimental, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Music, Modern Composition, Orchestral & Symphonic, Tape Music, World Fusion

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This Same Temple Manufacturer: Lovely Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003Y8I Release Date: 1996-10-01

Tracks:

1. Liquid And Stellar Music
2. Destiny
3. Water Dreams
4. This Same Temple

Album Description

Liquid and Stellar Music began as an idea for a sonic world while working with Terry Riley at Mills College and was working exclusively with the electric guitar. Through the use of a four-channel tape machine with three playback heads located at various points in the path of a closed loop of variable speed, system, it is possible for the performer to build up complex textural, harmonic or rhythmic structures through what is essentially a process of live multi-track recording (and playback, erasing and mixing).

Destiny draws its surface unabashedly from the idiom of rock and roll yet it is contrapuntally and polyrhythmically organized via processes normally associated with other domains. At this time, Dresher was "grappling with the diverse and contrary influences of both rock î roll, world music and contemporary 'art' music. This work was a direct attempt to reconcile these differences and incorporate the qualities of each which I find inspirational."

In Water Dreams the sounds of water in many contexts (rain, ocean waves, lakes, rivers, streams and drips) form the basic sonic palette. The composition is a hybrid of these acoustic sounds (manipulated only with equalization and tape speed alterations), synthesized sounds (Yamaha DX-7) and sampled acoustic sounds.

This Same Temple was premiered by the East Bay New Music Ensemble in the Fall of 1976 with Rae Imamura and Phil Aaberg at the pianos. Dresher says, "The work clearly owes a debt to Steve Reich, with whose ensemble I played briefly in the summer of 1974. It was through Steve that I met Nurit Tilles to whom I turned when I wanted to record the work."

Track Listings:

1. TOkyo Kosei Wind Orchestra Live in Chicago
2. Wagner: The Flying Dutchman
3. Welte-Mignon Piano Rolls
4. Winter: Music of Eric Ewazen and David Snow
5. Wyner - The Mirror / Passover Offering / Tants un Maysele (Milken Archive of American Jewish Music)
6. A Golden Age of Portuguese Music
7. Advance Australia Fair
8. Albéniz:Iberia/Navarra/Suite Española
9. Alessandro Solbiati: By My Window
10. All About Time

Track Listings

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Track Listings

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