Jeff Harrington - Espace
Jeff Harrington is a contemporary composer who offers most of his music (including albums Transcension and Obliterature, which I don’t like as much as Espace) for free download. I encourage you to explore his site and download what you like, but I was particularily impressed by Espace, a lush, ancient and modern ambient album that employs “granular resynthesis and time warping of timbres” with a variety of strange acoustic and electronic instruments.
The album is available in 256kbps MP3, along with high-res cover art.
Nice call on this one. My first impression is that Mr. Harrington’s music on this ‘album’ falls somewhere between Tomita’s ‘Debussy: Snowflakes Are Dancing’ (the tonal palette and ‘phasing’ timbres), and Wendy Carlo’s ‘Beauty in the Beast’ in reference to the ‘invented’ wind instruments and tunings/scales. Quite beautiful and sublime, I look forward to further listenings and to exploring his other compositions. Thanks for posting this ;-)
Comment by Loopy C — October 25, 2005 @ 6:22 am
Jeff Harrington is a great composer to me.
Glad you linked to him.
Comment by thomekk — November 9, 2005 @ 6:45 pm