Steve Layton: Music on CD and MP3
There is music, and then there is music... Modern Classical More (various) My Asia Songbook ImprovFriday 2009 To sample, buy and download CDs of my music (as well as CDs featuring wonderful work by other musicians, that I've either personally performed or curated) please click the graphic to visit my label: 
CDs are available through most of the major online retailers, such as iTunes, Amazon, and eMusic. Each also has a link on its NiwoSound page, to freely downloadable PDF versions of the cover art and liner notes. Other Projectswith Marco Lucchi: radure 3 - oltreumano (2005) My internet friend Marco Lucchi is a subtle and strong musician, performer and media artist. His work usually comes from a jazz/pop/electro background, but with the ear of a composer and the mind of a poet and philosopher. He lives and works in Modena, Italy, where once a year he produces a collaborative exhibition / performance titled Radure. He assembles work from both himself and other artists around the world, creating a rumination on a selected theme. The theme for 2005 was Oltreumano, and I was happy to lend three pieces to the project. Oltreumano has been released by the netlabel Webbed Hand Records; the audio, video, and text for the work can all be freely downloaded. . . . . . o.e.s. - a material, a sound, a shape (2010) orchestra eclettica e sincretista is a musical collective led by Marco Lucchi. The concept of this album is group members remixing or constructing pieces from tracks and samples contributed by other members. . . . . . m/orpheus - first morph (2011) Part of an ongoing project by Marco Lucchi, where an initial track is "morphed" by others, and then all are attached end-to-end into one larger experience. with Jérôme Poirier : Automatic Drops in Winter (2011) One of the most fertile aspects of the weekly ImprovFriday event (a regular web meeting/sharing of musicians from all over the world) is that there are very few expectations or rules. Musicians are free to create tracks of whatever music or sound interests them; the tracks can be simply listened to for pleasure, or can be used as material for new and different explorations by other IF members. This particular series was created almost without intention; from initial tracks by myself and Roger Sundström, my Paris musician-friend Jérôme Poirier added his own sounds while drastically refining and condensing the material. Struck by the sound, I decided to recombine Jérôme's new track with bits of music from Norbert Oldani and again Roger Sundström. Jérôme then reworked this track while adding something from Kavin Allenson; I took it back again to add work by Bruce Hamilton and Steve Moshier; Jérôme countered yet again by reworking all of this into another succinct and refined version, and I finished the game by laying this all on a bed of music by Jeff Fairbanks. Through it all, there remained always a certain clarity and unity; each new addition created a new 'flavor', but the dish was still the same dish, and fit on the same plate. Game over, where there was no game before, the point was to always tie, and everyone wins... Automatic Drops in Winter is released on the Three Legs Duck netlabel, and can be freely downloaded. . . . . . More later... stevelayton@niwo.com back to music mainpage |