Ambient, experimental vocal music.

8 MP3 Songs in this album (57:47) !
Related styles: AVANT GARDE: Experimental, WORLD: Throat Singing

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Details:
The music on this disc was composed to accompany Neal Stephenson's novel Anathem. After hearing a short verbal description of the core ideas for the book during a dinnertime conversation in 2006, I was completely drawn into the world that Neal was creating. I began to draft musical ideas to match some of the imaginary musical traditions that he had described, and Neal supplied draft copies of his book to me as it took shape. The experimental vocal music that you hear on this disc is the result.

It was clear from day one that the characters in the book possess not one, but many musical traditions, each forged over thousands of years of isolation, and each strangely similar to, yet exotically removed from, the monastic traditions of Earth. As an active performer of Earthly
vocal music, as a lapsed musicologist, and especially as a composer, I was excited by the possibilities opened up by Neal's imagination: somber music to celebrate the mysteries of philosophy and mathematics within the soaring stone walls of a cloister; simple songs to ease the mathematical drudgery of verifying theories; inward meditations upon
truth and beauty; and finally, fiendishly difficult musical games designed to hone intellectual prowess.

All profits from the sale of this record will be donated to the Long Now Foundation, whose project ideas had a seminal role in the genesis of Anathem.

-- David Stutz