A suite of five pieces, originally compsed for an opera by the same name and created in collaboration with choreographer Lorraine Thomson. These works all explore texture, tuning and the blending of computer music with Newby's soulful performances on suling, gambuh and gender wayang ensemble. "Even with influences of Java, Bali, Africa, and the Middle East, this is not world music. It is 'Other World Music,' a sonic hybrid of luminous electroacoustic eroticism...There is nothing superficial about Ecology of Souls; its power is unmistakable." Robyn Sean Peterson, Magical Blend
This beautiful recording documents highlights of an afternoon spent improvising in Daniel Schmidt's Sound Column, a sonic installation at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Lights in a Fat City is a collaborative ensemble featuring Kenneth Newby (suling, percussion, electroacoustic textures), Stephen Kent (didgeridu, percussion), and Eddy Sayer (percussion, harp).
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Canadian composer, performer and teacher, Kenneth Newby was born in 1956. He studied electroacoustic and computer music techniques (B.A., M.F.A.) at Simon Fraser University and specialized in writing his own software for composition. A co-founder of the Vancouver Gamelan Ensemble in 1986, he has studied Karawitan and Gender Wayang extensively in both Java and Bali. His compositions explore a synthesis of interactive computer music, improvisation, and an attention to deep states of consciousness.
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