Experimental and homespun romantic sample based electronic art music with beats and highly charged melodies.

9 MP3 Songs
ELECTRONIC: Experimental, CLASSICAL: Contemporary



Details:
Unquiet Myths was commissioned by the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company for a new dance work called Spill Out! a collaboration of choreographer Ellen Sinopli and her dancers, architectural designer Frances Bonet and composer William Harper.

WILLIAM HARPER has written and composed many critically acclaimed operas including, El Greco, Snow Leopard, Peyote Roadkill and Crimson Cowboy. El Greco was commissioned and produced by INTAR in New York City and was broadcast on National Public Radio's World of Opera program. Recently completed music projects include a Requiem and Marlidendur commissioned by conductor Gudmundur Emilsson for the Latvian Radio Symphony and Choir and the Riga Dome Boys Choir. Requiem and Marlidendur have been recorded by the Icelandic Skifan records and are available from ARTCO records. Recent recordings include the critically acclaimed electro-acoustic triptych The Banjo of Death Sleeping and the soon to be released collection of electronica and sample based songs, Unquiet Myths.. With a Ph.D. in music composition from the Eastman School of Music, Harper teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and for his work in opera, film, dance and theater, Harper has received support from many foundations and support groups including the National Institute for Music Theater, the Djerassi Foundation, the Yaddo Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The MacArthur Foundation.