WM026: Terry Douglas - Instant forever
released 10 october 2005
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01. Glot |
Terry Douglas composes extensively for electronic media, orchestra,
chamber ensembles, solo instruments, and rockin' teen-age combos.
His music investigates the fundamental elements of musical
communication through new timbral, formal, and technological
relationships. His recorded output is the culmination of a
compressed yet wide-ranging exploration of the man and his work
which began, simply enough, as a search for an understanding of
Helmholtzian thermodynamics. It has since evolved instead into an
analysis of the more arcane work in acoustical research and other
forays into the psychophysics of human perception.
Although todays technology bestows pragmatic credence and relocates
musical activity closer to the abstractions of science and
mathematics, Douglas's attempts at a unique treatise on sound events
(the sonic object) is a bold endeavor and a far more radical option
to the commercial production of sound.
Sound, rhythm, and space. Ultra-chromatic chord frames. Deep and
unreachable worlds explored with innovative experiments in form and
structure. These are just some of the sonic avenues ventured down by
the composer in his search for a new musical language. In an effort
at realizing this new sonic architecture, Terry Douglas has been
active in the world of sound installations and audio/visual
production. He has performed and exhibited at numerous performance
spaces, galleries, and festivals. Early in his career, he
specialized as a percussionist, performing works by John Cage,
Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Edgar Varese. During this time he became
fascinated with the concepts and experiments of Dr. Vladimir
Gavreau. Since then his work has become increasingly focused in the
realm of infrasound and it's practical and non-practical
applications.
In other words: Terry Douglas is an Atlanta based
multi-instrumentalist composer/producer working to bring avant-garde
music to the masses.
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