Dave Soldier
Encyclopedia
Dave Soldier is an American
composer
and performer residing in New York
.
he built giant musical instruments on which he trained a group of elephants to improvise. The Thai Elephant Orchestra, located at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center near Lampang, has recorded three CDs, consists of up to 14 elephants, and is listed by Guinness as the world's largest orchestra by weight, claimed to be roughly equivalent as much as three Vienna Philharmonics.
He created specially designed instruments for music played by zebra finches and pygmy chimpanzees, the latter in collaboration with Gordon Shaw, the physicist who popularized the Mozart effect
. He has a repertory for music, the Brainwave Music Project, played by performer's brainwaves using electroencephalograms in collaboration with the computer musician Brad Garton
.
Among his collaborations with child composers, The Tangerine Awkestra, features 2-10 year old Brooklyn schoolchildren performing free improvisation, Da HipHop Raskalz features 5-10 year old children in East Harlem who write and perform their own rap and dub tracks, and Yol K'u features Mayan Indian children in San Mateo Ixtatan, Guatemala who compose minimalist repertoire on giant marimbas.
Not all of his work is so totally off-the-wall, however; he founded and played violin in the seminal punk chamber group, the Soldier String Quartet, in 1985. The quartet pioneered the use of amplified instruments and a repertoire that erased boundaries between classical and popular music. As leader of the Soldier String Quartet, Soldier wrote and/or performed traditionally notated pieces that draw upon every possible music style, from serialism to Delta blues. Soldier had an affinity for the polyphony evident in the Haydn and Beethoven quartets. He aimed to highlight the anachronism that stemmed from having a classical ensemble play in contemporary popular idioms, particularly rhythm and blues and punk rock. Soldier found that—in the hands of players who understood the contrasting styles including violinists Regina Carter
and Todd Reynolds -- string instruments could play the blues. He also incorporated a drummer into the quartet. The Soldier String Quartet also premiered and recorded works by other composers, for example: Elliott Sharp
, Iannis Xenakis
, and Phill Niblock
, and worked with jazz musicians including Tony Williams. They were the touring and recording group for the Velvet Underground's John Cale
from 1992-1998.
Soldier's compositions for classical musicians include collaborations with the Russian conceptual artists, Komar & Melamid, with a "socialist-realist" opera, "Naked Revolution', based on their paintings. Inspired by Komar and Melamid's "The People's Choice", based on surveys of likes and dislikes in art, Soldier wrote "The People's Choice: Music" (lyrics by Nina Mankin), written according to answers from a survey of 600 Americans, resulting in "The Most Wanted" and "The Most Unwanted Song
", the latter of which is 26 minutes featuring an operatic soprano singing cowboy songs, a children's choir screaming advertisements for holiday shopping, and political rants backed by bagpipe, banjo, tuba, piccolo, and church organ.
Soldier collaborated with Kurt Vonnegut
on two chamber operas, "The Soldier's Story" and "Ice-9 Ballads". Many of his chamber works for various instrumental combinations were premiered and recorded by the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra
under conductor Richard Auldon Clark
, including a collection of early Latin homoerotic lyrics in "Smut", and settings of Frederick Douglass
in "The Apotheosis of John Brown" and Mark Twain
in "War Prayer". Other chamber works by Soldier have been recorded by violinist Regina Carter
, cellist Erik Friedlander
, pianist Christopher O'Riley
, accordionist William Schimmel
, and flutist Robert Dick
.
Soldier also performs with a punk / country blues band with the Memphis singer Lorette Velvette and the Velvet Underground drummer, Mo Tucker called the Kropotkins, and an Andalusian-middle eastern rock group, The Spinozas, featuring lyrics from the Golden Age of Arabic and Hebrew poetry from medieval Andalusia
.
and Isaac Hayes
. Soldier also listened to classical music. He learned to play viola, violin, piano, and eventually guitar. He moved with his family to Storrs, CT, at the age of 16, where he became enamoured with salsa music. He attended Michigan State University as an undergraduate and attempted a study of classical composition. He found that stultifying, however, and instead studied privately with the avant-garde jazz saxophonist/composer Roscoe Mitchell
.
He lived in Florida briefly, where he played guitar in Bo Diddley
's band. He relocated to New York in 1981, and played in various salsa, classical, and rock-oriented bands in the early '80s. He studied composition with Otto Luening
and formed his quartet in 1985. He co-founded Mulatta Records
in 2000 to document his projects, including the elephant piece and the child improvisers. Soldier performed, recorded, composed, and arranged for television and film (Sesame Street
, I Shot Andy Warhol), and pop and jazz acts ranging from Pete Seeger
to David Byrne
and Guided by Voices
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and performer residing in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
.
Musical works
Some of his work is based on unusual collaborations. In the Thai Elephant OrchestraThai Elephant Orchestra
The Thai Elephant Orchestra is a musical ensemble consisting of as many as sixteen elephants near Lampang in Northern Thailand. The elephants play music on enormous specially designed musical instruments...
he built giant musical instruments on which he trained a group of elephants to improvise. The Thai Elephant Orchestra, located at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center near Lampang, has recorded three CDs, consists of up to 14 elephants, and is listed by Guinness as the world's largest orchestra by weight, claimed to be roughly equivalent as much as three Vienna Philharmonics.
He created specially designed instruments for music played by zebra finches and pygmy chimpanzees, the latter in collaboration with Gordon Shaw, the physicist who popularized the Mozart effect
Mozart effect
The Mozart effect can refer to: * A set of research results that indicate that listening to Mozart's music may induce a short-term improvement on the performance of certain kinds of mental tasks known as "spatial-temporal...
. He has a repertory for music, the Brainwave Music Project, played by performer's brainwaves using electroencephalograms in collaboration with the computer musician Brad Garton
Brad Garton
Brad Garton is an American composer and computer musician who is professor of music at Columbia University.He has written, or helped to write, a number of computer music applications, including Real-Time Cmix, music synthesis and signal processing language for real time composition. He received...
.
Among his collaborations with child composers, The Tangerine Awkestra, features 2-10 year old Brooklyn schoolchildren performing free improvisation, Da HipHop Raskalz features 5-10 year old children in East Harlem who write and perform their own rap and dub tracks, and Yol K'u features Mayan Indian children in San Mateo Ixtatan, Guatemala who compose minimalist repertoire on giant marimbas.
Not all of his work is so totally off-the-wall, however; he founded and played violin in the seminal punk chamber group, the Soldier String Quartet, in 1985. The quartet pioneered the use of amplified instruments and a repertoire that erased boundaries between classical and popular music. As leader of the Soldier String Quartet, Soldier wrote and/or performed traditionally notated pieces that draw upon every possible music style, from serialism to Delta blues. Soldier had an affinity for the polyphony evident in the Haydn and Beethoven quartets. He aimed to highlight the anachronism that stemmed from having a classical ensemble play in contemporary popular idioms, particularly rhythm and blues and punk rock. Soldier found that—in the hands of players who understood the contrasting styles including violinists Regina Carter
Regina Carter
Regina Carter is an American jazz violinist. She is the cousin of famous jazz saxophonist James Carter.-Early life:...
and Todd Reynolds -- string instruments could play the blues. He also incorporated a drummer into the quartet. The Soldier String Quartet also premiered and recorded works by other composers, for example: Elliott Sharp
Elliott Sharp
Elliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock,...
, Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek ethnic, naturalized French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers...
, and Phill Niblock
Phill Niblock
Phill Niblock is a composer, filmmaker, videographer, and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York with a parallel branch in Ghent, Belgium.-Biography:...
, and worked with jazz musicians including Tony Williams. They were the touring and recording group for the Velvet Underground's John Cale
John Cale
John Davies Cale, OBE is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground....
from 1992-1998.
Soldier's compositions for classical musicians include collaborations with the Russian conceptual artists, Komar & Melamid, with a "socialist-realist" opera, "Naked Revolution', based on their paintings. Inspired by Komar and Melamid's "The People's Choice", based on surveys of likes and dislikes in art, Soldier wrote "The People's Choice: Music" (lyrics by Nina Mankin), written according to answers from a survey of 600 Americans, resulting in "The Most Wanted" and "The Most Unwanted Song
The Most Unwanted Song
"The Most Unwanted Song" is a song created by artists Komar and Melamid and composer Dave Soldier in 1997. The song was designed to incorporate lyrical and musical elements that were annoying to most people...
", the latter of which is 26 minutes featuring an operatic soprano singing cowboy songs, a children's choir screaming advertisements for holiday shopping, and political rants backed by bagpipe, banjo, tuba, piccolo, and church organ.
Soldier collaborated with Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a 20th century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle , Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.-Early...
on two chamber operas, "The Soldier's Story" and "Ice-9 Ballads". Many of his chamber works for various instrumental combinations were premiered and recorded by the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra
Manhattan Chamber Orchestra
The Manhattan Chamber Orchestra is a chamber orchestra based in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States.The orchestra was founded in 1987 by its artistic director and conductor, Richard Auldon Clark. It performs music of all genres with a special focus on contemporary music by American...
under conductor Richard Auldon Clark
Richard Auldon Clark
Richard Aulden Clark is an American conductor specializing in music by contemporary composers. He is Conductor and Music Director of both the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, which he founded in 1987, and the Butler Symphony Orchestra. He has premiered over 100 works and recorded over 30 CDs...
, including a collection of early Latin homoerotic lyrics in "Smut", and settings of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing...
in "The Apotheosis of John Brown" and Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
in "War Prayer". Other chamber works by Soldier have been recorded by violinist Regina Carter
Regina Carter
Regina Carter is an American jazz violinist. She is the cousin of famous jazz saxophonist James Carter.-Early life:...
, cellist Erik Friedlander
Erik Friedlander
Erik Friedlander is an American cellist and composer based in New York City.A veteran of NYC's experimental downtown scene, Friedlander has worked in many contexts, but is perhaps best known for his frequent collaborations with saxophonist/composer John Zorn...
, pianist Christopher O'Riley
Christopher O'Riley
Christopher O'Riley is an American classical pianist and public radio show host. He is the host of the weekly National Public Radio program From the Top. O'Riley is also known for his piano arrangements of songs by alternative artists....
, accordionist William Schimmel
William Schimmel
William Schimmel is one of the principal architects in the resurgence of the accordion, and the philosophy of "Musical Reality"...
, and flutist Robert Dick
Robert Dick
Robert Dick , Scottish geologist and botanist was born at Tullibody, in Clackmannanshire.His father was an officer of excise. At the age of thirteen, after receiving a good elementary education at the parish school, Dick was apprenticed to a baker, and served for three years...
.
Soldier also performs with a punk / country blues band with the Memphis singer Lorette Velvette and the Velvet Underground drummer, Mo Tucker called the Kropotkins, and an Andalusian-middle eastern rock group, The Spinozas, featuring lyrics from the Golden Age of Arabic and Hebrew poetry from medieval Andalusia
Andalusia
Andalusia is the most populous and the second largest in area of the autonomous communities of Spain. The Andalusian autonomous community is officially recognised as a nationality of Spain. The territory is divided into eight provinces: Huelva, Seville, Cádiz, Córdoba, Málaga, Jaén, Granada and...
.
Personal life
Soldier grew up in Carbondale in southern Illinois where he was exposed to vernacular music common to the area, particularly country and R&B. His earliest influences included James BrownJames Brown
James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...
and Isaac Hayes
Isaac Hayes
Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American songwriter, musician, singer and actor. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the...
. Soldier also listened to classical music. He learned to play viola, violin, piano, and eventually guitar. He moved with his family to Storrs, CT, at the age of 16, where he became enamoured with salsa music. He attended Michigan State University as an undergraduate and attempted a study of classical composition. He found that stultifying, however, and instead studied privately with the avant-garde jazz saxophonist/composer Roscoe Mitchell
Roscoe Mitchell
Roscoe Mitchell is an African American composer, jazz instrumentalist and educator, mostly known for being "a technically superb—if idiosyncratic—saxophonist." He has been called "one of the key figures" in avant-garde jazz who has been "at the forefront of modern music" for the past...
.
He lived in Florida briefly, where he played guitar in Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley
Ellas Otha Bates , known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter , and inventor...
's band. He relocated to New York in 1981, and played in various salsa, classical, and rock-oriented bands in the early '80s. He studied composition with Otto Luening
Otto Luening
Otto Clarence Luening was a German-American composer and conductor, and an early pioneer of tape music and electronic music....
and formed his quartet in 1985. He co-founded Mulatta Records
Mulatta Records
Mulatta Records is a record label established in 2000 by the Nigerian record producer and DJ Ayo Osinibi and the American composer/performer Dave Soldier...
in 2000 to document his projects, including the elephant piece and the child improvisers. Soldier performed, recorded, composed, and arranged for television and film (Sesame Street
Sesame Street
Sesame Street has undergone significant changes in its history. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become "an American institution". The cast and crew expanded during this time, including the hiring of women in the crew and additional minorities in the cast. The...
, I Shot Andy Warhol), and pop and jazz acts ranging from Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
Peter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer and was an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead...
to David Byrne
David Byrne (musician)
David Byrne is a musician and artist, best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography,...
and Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices is an American indie rock band originating from Dayton, Ohio. Beginning with the band's formation in 1983, it made frequent personnel changes but always maintained the presence of principal songwriter Robert Pollard...
.
Studio albums
- 1988 Sequence Girls: Soldier String Quartet
- 1990 Romances From the Second Line
- 1991 Sojourner Truth: Soldier String Quartet
- 1993 The Apotheosis of John Brown
- 1994 War Prayer; with the Manhattan Chamber OrchestraManhattan Chamber OrchestraThe Manhattan Chamber Orchestra is a chamber orchestra based in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States.The orchestra was founded in 1987 by its artistic director and conductor, Richard Auldon Clark. It performs music of all genres with a special focus on contemporary music by American...
- 1994 Smut
- 1996 She's Lightning When She Smiles: Soldier String Quartet
- 1997 The People's Choice: Music: with Komar & Melamid
- 1997 Jazz Standards on Mars: Soldier String Quartet with Robert DickRobert DickRobert Dick , Scottish geologist and botanist was born at Tullibody, in Clackmannanshire.His father was an officer of excise. At the age of thirteen, after receiving a good elementary education at the parish school, Dick was apprenticed to a baker, and served for three years...
- 2000 The Tangerine Awkestra: with Katie Down and children from Fort Greene, Brooklyn
- 2001 Thai Elephant OrchestraThai Elephant OrchestraThe Thai Elephant Orchestra is a musical ensemble consisting of as many as sixteen elephants near Lampang in Northern Thailand. The elephants play music on enormous specially designed musical instruments...
- 2001 Ice-9 Ballads: with Kurt VonnegutKurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a 20th century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle , Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.-Early...
- 2004 Elephonic Rhapsodies: with the Thai Elephant OrchestraThai Elephant OrchestraThe Thai Elephant Orchestra is a musical ensemble consisting of as many as sixteen elephants near Lampang in Northern Thailand. The elephants play music on enormous specially designed musical instruments...
- 2004 Inspect for Damaged Gods: Soldier String Quartet
- 2005 Soldier Stories: with Kurt VonnegutKurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a 20th century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle , Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.-Early...
- 2006 Da Hiphop Raskalz: with children from East Harlem
- 2006 Chamber Music
- 2008 Yol K'u (Inside the Sun): Mayan Mountain Music with children from San Mateo Ixtatan, Guatemala
- 2011 Water Music: with the Thai Elephant OrchestraThai Elephant OrchestraThe Thai Elephant Orchestra is a musical ensemble consisting of as many as sixteen elephants near Lampang in Northern Thailand. The elephants play music on enormous specially designed musical instruments...
- 2011 The Complete Victrola Sessions: with Rebecca Cherry
Collaborations and Film Scores
- 1996 The Kropotkins
- 1997 Jazz Standards on Mars: with Robert DickRobert DickRobert Dick , Scottish geologist and botanist was born at Tullibody, in Clackmannanshire.His father was an officer of excise. At the age of thirteen, after receiving a good elementary education at the parish school, Dick was apprenticed to a baker, and served for three years...
- 2000 Five Points Crawl: with the Kropotkins
- 2009 Paradise Square: with the Kropotkins
- 2010 Yearn For Certainty: with the William Hooker Trio with Sabir MateenSabir MateenSabir Mateen is a musician and composer from Philadelphia who plays primarily in the avant-garde jazz idiom. He plays tenor and alto saxophone, B♭ and alto clarinet, and flute....
- Arranger: Paris S'Eveille, Antarida, Walking on Locusts, Eat and Kiss, Dance Music, John CaleJohn CaleJohn Davies Cale, OBE is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground....
- Arranger: Last Day on Earth, Bob NeuwirthBob NeuwirthBob Neuwirth is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and visual artist. A mainstay of the early 1960s Cambridge, Massachusetts, folk scene, he subsequently became a friend and associate of Bob Dylan alongside whom he appears in D.A...
& John CaleJohn CaleJohn Davies Cale, OBE is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground.... - Arranger: Foreign Land, Christina RosenvingeChristina RosenvingeChristina Rosenvinge Hepworth is a Spanish singer and songwriter born to Danish father and English mother.She was a member of the Spanish group Christina y Los Subterráneos, and previously Alex y Cristina, before she started a solo career with help from Lee Ranaldo, the guitarist of Sonic Youth...
- Arranger: Isolation Drills, Hold on Hope, Do the Collapse, Guided by VoicesGuided by VoicesGuided by Voices is an American indie rock band originating from Dayton, Ohio. Beginning with the band's formation in 1983, it made frequent personnel changes but always maintained the presence of principal songwriter Robert Pollard...
- Arranger, Conductor: I Shot Andy Warhol, Mary HarronMary HarronMary Harron is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter best known for her films I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page.-Overview:...
director - Arranger: BasquiatBasquiatBasquiat is a 1996 biopic/drama film directed by fellow painter Julian Schnabel which is based on the life of American postmodernist/neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat....
, Julian SchnabelJulian SchnabelJulian Schnabel is an American artist and filmmaker. In the 1980s, Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates....
director - Composer: Mekong Interior, Vanessa Ly director
- Composer: Sesame StreetSesame StreetSesame Street has undergone significant changes in its history. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become "an American institution". The cast and crew expanded during this time, including the hiring of women in the crew and additional minorities in the cast. The...
cartoons, Nadia Roden director - Composer: The Violinist, Winsome Brown, director
Recordings with the Soldier String Quartet
- Last Day on Earth, Bob NeuwirthBob NeuwirthBob Neuwirth is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and visual artist. A mainstay of the early 1960s Cambridge, Massachusetts, folk scene, he subsequently became a friend and associate of Bob Dylan alongside whom he appears in D.A...
John CaleJohn CaleJohn Davies Cale, OBE is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground.... - Walking on Locusts, John CaleJohn CaleJohn Davies Cale, OBE is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground....
- Eat and Kiss, John CaleJohn CaleJohn Davies Cale, OBE is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground....
- Hammer Anvil Stirrup, Elliott SharpElliott SharpElliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock,...
- Larynx, Elliott SharpElliott SharpElliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock,...
- Tessalation Row, Elliott SharpElliott SharpElliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock,...
- Twistmap, Elliott SharpElliott SharpElliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock,...
- Abstract Repressionism, Elliott SharpElliott SharpElliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock,...
- Cryptoid Fragments, Elliott SharpElliott SharpElliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock,...
- Xeno-Codex, Elliott SharpElliott SharpElliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock,...
- Rheo/Umbra, Elliott SharpElliott SharpElliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock,...
- String Quartets 1986-1996, Elliott SharpElliott SharpElliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock,...
- Early Winter, Phill NiblockPhill NiblockPhill Niblock is a composer, filmmaker, videographer, and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York with a parallel branch in Ghent, Belgium.-Biography:...
- Themes & Variations on the Blues, Leroy Jenkins
- While the Music Lasts, Jesse HarrisJesse HarrisJesse Harris is a Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter. He has collaborated with several musical artists including Norah Jones, Melody Gardot, Madeleine Peyroux, Nikki Yanofsky, and Lizz Wright.-Early life and education:...
- A Dark & Stormy Night, Nicolas CollinsNicolas CollinsNicolas Collins is a composer of mostly electronic music and former student of Alvin Lucier. He received a B.A. and M.A...
- The Word, Jonas HellborgJonas HellborgJonas Hellborg is a Swedish bass guitarist. He has collaborated with John McLaughlin, Ustad Sultan Khan, Fazal Qureshi, Bill Laswell, Shawn Lane, Jens Johansson, Michael Shrieve, V. Selvaganesh, Mattias IA Eklundh and Buckethead....
& Tony Williams - Third Stone from the Sun, Robert DickRobert DickRobert Dick , Scottish geologist and botanist was born at Tullibody, in Clackmannanshire.His father was an officer of excise. At the age of thirteen, after receiving a good elementary education at the parish school, Dick was apprenticed to a baker, and served for three years...
External links
- Mulatta Records Homepage
- Brainwave Music Project
- Brainwave Music Project TV show on PBS / WHYY
- NPR Radio interviews on The Human Chorus
- Interview on CBC Radio
- Interview on BBC
- http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2005/01/05Interview on WNYC Radio by Leonard LopateLeonard LopateLeonard Lopate is host of the public radio talk show The Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast on WNYC. He first broadcast on WKCR, the college radio station of Columbia University—where his brother Phillip was a student—then later at WBAI, before ultimately moving to WNYC. -Biography:Lopate came to...
] - http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/98/88.htmlInterview on The People's Choice Music NPR This American Life by Ira GlassIra GlassIra Glass is an American public radio personality, and host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life.- Early life :...
] - Interview on WNYC Radio by John Schaefer
- New Music Box profile
- A lively Metafile debate on whether Soldier's work is really music
- New York Times Profile
- The Thai Elephant Orchestra in The Economist
- National Geographic on Thai Elephant Orchestra
- Swedish TV episode on the Thai Elephant Orchestra