In a short essay from 2001, influential electronic music composer Laurie Spiegel posed the question: “Can orchestral music and electronic sound comfortably coexist?” To the chagrin of any traditionalists who came across Spiegel’s article, and to the joy of her peers in the avant-garde community, she wrote yes. Computers and electronics can produce the sounds that an orchestra isn’t able to, while the orchestra gives the electronic artist an opportunity “to do music as part of a social framework instead of alone.”
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Bedst kendt for hendes legendariske samlingsalbum The Expanding Universe, som oprindeligt blev udgivet i 1980 og genudgivet i 2012, har Spiegel ellers ikke udgivet meget musik. Men hun har for nylig komponeret et stykke for London Contemporary Orchestra, betitlet \"Only Night Thoughts\", som en del af et BBC-udsendt koncertprogram kaldet \"Pioneers of Sound\". Selvom Spiegel's stykke minder om de glitrende, arpegerende synthesizere på The Expanding Universe, indeholder det ikke live elektronik; \"Only Night Thoughts\" er udelukkende akustiske instrumenter. Dog henviste et bestemt optræden på samme program tilbage til Spiegels essay fra 2001. Akkompagneret af orkestret til et 40-minutters stykke var den anerkendte komponist Shiva Feshareki. Hendes instrument: pladespillere.
Eli Zeger har skrevet for Noisey, Van Magazine, Real Life, Hyperallergic, DownBeat og andre. Han elsker sin guitar og kat!
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