Song of the Earth: A composer takes inspiration from the Arctic
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Fairbanks-based musician John Luther Adams is profiled in Alex Ross' recent contribution to the New Yorker ("Song of the Earth: A composer takes inspiration from the Arctic", 12 May 2008). John Luther Adams -- not to be confused with John Adams who scored the modern opera "Nixon in China" -- has produced an installation for the Museum of the North at the University of Fairbanks in Alaska that culls geologic, seismic, and meteorologic data into a computer and processing the feed as light and sound. Adams' work “The Place Where You Go to Listen” is not merely an ambient work, but a piece that processes information organically and in real-time. And the title refers to Naalagiagvik, a coastal sliver on the Arctic Ocean, cited in an Inupiaq legend. Check out Ross' profile of John Luther Adams, his music, and projects.Image credit: John Luther Adams says, “My music is going inexorably from being about place to becoming place.” Photograph by Evan Hurd. Courtesy of the New Yorker.
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John Luther Adams' “The Place Where You Go to Listen” is currently on view at the Museum of the North, University of Fairbanks, Alaska.
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