Steve Layton: Music on CD and MP3
There is music, and then there is music... Modern Classical More (various) My Asia Songbook To sample and buy CDs of my music, please visit CD Baby In addition, for those of you who subscribe to MP3 download services, you'll be able to find and download both single tracks and complete albums of my music at Emusic: Different Light, Same Window (2005) download CD notes (PDF 200 kb) The Composer Plays IV: Works for Imaginary Piano (2007) download CD notes (PDF 300 kb) iTunes: All Bright Things (2003) The Composer Plays III: Works for Imaginary Piano (2004) download CD notes (PDF 325 kb) Different Light, Same Window (2005) download CD notes (PDF 200 kb) The Composer Plays IV: Works for Imaginary Piano (2007) download CD notes (PDF 300 kb) as well as Rhapsody, Sony Connect, MSN Music, MusicNet, Napster, MusicMatch, and more; just search for my name. Some other sites where you can find more MP3 soundfiles of my work: Myspace.com (including my own links to wonderful musicians I've found there; just check my "friends" list) Vitaminic.com New Music Jukebox SoundClick Other ProjectsDavid Toub (b.1961): 1) Textbook: music of descending landscapes in hyperspace (piece for I.P.S.), for solo piano [1984-87] In 2005, I made a realization of this monumental 2-hour essay in minimalism. Though it is in seven separate-but-connected movements, David and I both like the integrity of presenting the whole work as a single music track. My performance is up on David's site, at this link: http://homepage.mac.com/dtoub/textbook_SL.mp3 (119 MB!) 2) Darfur Pogrommen, for vibraphone, electric piano, four electric organs [2007] Available now on iTunes. Another expansive minimalist essay; its single continuous movement clocks in at 47 minutes. There’s no real attempt at programmatic writing; rather — like many of David’s other pieces — the title is a marker of a moment, that can call up whatever associations the listener might have in relation to it. The piece is for open instrumentation. David’s own first recorded version used synthy string sounds, but I decided to give it a kind of “old school” treatment: a Reich-Glass hybrid with a vibraphone and electric organ taking the two primary parts, and electric piano and two more organs adding secondary voices. It trades a little lushness, but finds a bright, hard and uncompromising edge. Complete CD art & notes can be downloaded HERE. . . . . . Marco Lucchi (b.1956): 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 at this link: http://www.archive.org/details/wh074 . . . . More later... dalgas@speakeasy.net back to music mainpage |