14 Echo

The cover alone is a dead giveaway, echoing as it does the cover of Crocodiles, with what looks like a set of trees and a car in place of De Freitas.

Echo is a vocal ensemble made up of young professional singers from across the UK.

"Traditional music is not denied any more than the traditional theater was supplanted by the cinema. Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?"

―Pierre Schaeffer

As the creator of musique concrète, what Pierre Schaeffer achieved in one broad artistic stroke was a multidimensional redefinition of music. The importance of musique concrète is twofold. Schaeffer developed the concept of including any and all sounds into the musical vocabulary. It was not enough to simply make the connection between music and audio for the combination to become an effective new aesthetic paradigm. The boundaries of music had to be pushed out to include not just the set of all sounds musical instruments were designed to produce―and not just all the sounds they weren't designed to produce either: his new musical universe also included the utilitarian noises of everyday life, wrested from their familiar context and transposed into novel and astonishing juxtapositions. He concocted imaginative and surreal sonic atmospheres. With his unbiased ear, he invoked the utterly free imaginal space of our collective sonic psyche. By calling this pastiche of doctored recorded sounds musique, Schaeffer connected the ideas of two formerly separate aesthetic domains: music and audio. At once he transformed the art of recording from a passive enterprise dedicated merely to fidelity and memory into an active artistic medium, capable of digesting and transforming not just all music and all poetry, but all sound into a new sonic art form. The marriage of audio recording technology and musical composition eventually became the new "King of Instruments" because of the musical breadth and power it engendered.

As the creator of musique concrète, what Pierre Schaeffer achieved in one broad artistic stroke was a multidimensional redefinition of music. The importance of musique concrète is twofold. Schaeffer developed the concept of including any and all sounds into the musical vocabulary. It was not enough to simply make the connection between music and audio for the combination to become an effective new aesthetic paradigm. The boundaries of music had to be pushed out to include not just the set of all sounds musical instruments were designed to produce―and not just all the sounds they weren't designed to produce either: his new musical universe also included the utilitarian noises of everyday life, wrested from their familiar context and transposed into novel and astonishing juxtapositions.

"Traditional music is not denied any more than the traditional theater was supplanted by the cinema. Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?" ―Pierre Schaeffer

Schaeffer concocted imaginative and surreal sonic atmospheres. With his unbiased ear, he invoked the utterly free imaginal space of our collective sonic psyche. By calling this pastiche of doctored recorded sounds musique, Schaeffer connected the ideas of two formerly separate aesthetic domains: music and audio. At once he transformed the art of recording from a passive enterprise dedicated merely to fidelity and memory into an active artistic medium, capable of digesting and transforming not just all music and all poetry, but all sound into a new sonic art form. The marriage of audio recording technology and musical composition eventually became the new "King of Instruments" because of the musical breadth and power it engendered.

is an American comic book independently-published by writer-artist Terry Moore under his Abstract Studio imprint. The first issue was released on March 5, 2008. Echo's story revolves around Julie, a young photographer who inadvertently comes into contact with the metallic remnants of a high-tech battle suit that exploded on field testing. The only thing, though, is that the metal fragments have adhered to, and is covering, her body. Moore himself says the premise of Echo is a woman living in today's America who is dealing with a sudden unbelievable change to her daily life.

Reissue of a successful Brilliant Classics box set.
Includes the complete string quartets (of course featuring the ever popular American Quartet) as well as the shorter works for string quartet, music which speaks of the beauty of Bohemia, the woods, the streams, the flowers and the rich folklore.

Nikolai Tcherepnin (not to be confused with his son Alexander!) represents a generation of composers who not only combined two diametrically opposed epochs – the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – but also followed the path of stylistic change leading from late romanticism to impressionism and from impressionism to modernism. His name stands not only for the culture of his native Russia but also in equal measure for Western European art – and especially that of France. In the symphonic prelude Princesse lointaine, a short early work, Tcherepnin develops his compositional aesthetic, and we already detect what later would be a dominant element in his mature works: an interest in legends and sagas. The ballet music for Narcissus and Echo forms the focus of this CD.

is an American comic book independently-published by Terry Moore under his Abstract Studio imprint. The first issue was released on March 5, 2008. Echo's story revolves around Julie, a young photographer who inadvertently comes into contact with the metallic remnants of a high-tech battle suit that exploded on field testing. The only thing, though, is that the metal fragments have adhered to, and is covering, her body. Moore himself says the premise of Echo is a woman living in today's America who is dealing with a sudden unbelievable change to her daily life. The issues open with different quotes: Issues 1-5 open each time with a different quote from Albert Einstein; Issues 6-10 open with different quotes from J. Robert Oppenheimer; Issue 11 opens with The Biwabik Sum by Ed Oberg and Jay A. Johnson; Issue 12 opens with a quote from Stephen Hawking; Issue #13, opens with a quote by Stanley Baldwin and the latest, Issue #14 opens with another Einstein quote. Issues 1-5 have been collected into a trade paperback entitled "Moon Lake" and issues 6-10 into another entitled "Atomic Dreams."

is an American comic book independently-published by writer-artist Terry Moore under his Abstract Studio imprint. The first issue was released on March 5, 2008. Echo's story revolves around Julie, a young photographer who inadvertently comes into contact with the metallic remnants of a high-tech battle suit that exploded on field testing. The only thing, though, is that the metal fragments have adhered to, and is covering, her body. Moore himself says the premise of Echo is a woman living in today's America who is dealing with a sudden unbelievable change to her daily life. The issues open with different quotes: Issues 1-5 & 14 open each time with a different quote from Albert Einstein; Issues 6-10 open with different quotes from J. Robert Oppenheimer; Issue 11 opens with by Ed Oberg and Jay A. Johnson; Issue 12 opens with a quote from Stephen Hawking; Issue #13 opens with a quote by Stanley Baldwin; and this issue opens with a quote by Jazz tenor sax legend Dexter Gordon.