Terry Douglas composes extensively for electronic media, orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo instruments, and rockin’ teen-age combos.

released 10 october 2005

01. Glot
02. Mit-werb
03. Velok
04. Top of the foodchain (for now)
05. Instant forever
06. Gerbzz
07. Cruel world

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.

Ultra-Pure Sound With Anti-EMF Air Tube Technology

Terry Douglas’s exploration of “the psychophysics of human perception” and his work with infrasound demand listening equipment that preserves his intended sonic architecture. His experimental compositions like “Glot” and “Top of the foodchain (for now)” contain subtle timbral elements and ultra-chromatic chord frames that benefit immensely from the uncolored sound reproduction of air tube headphones. The “deep and unreachable worlds” Douglas ventures into are more fully realized when heard through anti-EMF air tube technology that eliminates electrical interference near your ears. For a composer influenced by Cage, Stockhausen, and Varese, and fascinated by Dr. Vladimir Gavreau’s infrasound experiments, the pure acoustic transmission of air tube headphones reveals nuances in tracks like “Instant forever” that might otherwise be lost. The hollow tube design creates a more natural soundstage that complements Douglas’s “bold endeavor” to create a unique treatise on sound events. As someone working “to bring avant-garde music to the masses,” Douglas’s compositions deserve to be experienced with technology that honors his meticulous attention to fundamental elements of musical communication, free from the electrical signal distortion that can mask the innovative experiments in form and structure that define his work.