Adam Rudolph - Go: Organic Orchestra 1 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Adam Rudolph and Go Organic Orchestra Find the Dynamic, Beautiful Center of Globally Informed, Improvisationally Generated Sound a walled city, a map of the world, a spiraling call A mandala's meaning extends far beyond pattern and line. It does more than represent an ideal or suggest a path. It is reality, laid out in it's true form, for US to contemplate.Composer and percussionist Adam Rudolph finds a similar shape of things via sound, enlisting the Go Organic Orchestra, an ensemble of players who can be assembled anywhere, anytime. In the project's latest iteration, Rudolph has gathered his longest collaborating group of musicians based in New York, for a series of elegant, diversely textured pieces that form a Sonic Mandala. Following a compositional and conducting approach Rudolph has honed over decades of contemplation, performance, and creation, the group delineates a space where contemporary classical, jazz, and global traditions effortlessly converge. Though Rudolph provides matrix-based scores and a streamlined vocabulary of conducting gestures to guide musicians, ultimately the pieces spring from the intent focus and spontaneous dialogue engendered in the musicians themselves. Album Tracks 1. Part One (Invitation) 2. Part Two 3. Part Three 4. Part Four 5. Part Five 6. Part Six 7. Part Seven (Slow) 8. Part Seven (Medium) 9. Part Seven (Fast) 10. Part Eight 11. Part Nine 12. Part Ten 13. Part Eleven 14. Part Twelve (Universal Mother)

Following fresh on the heels of the critically acclaimed Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures CD on Justin time Records is Thought Forms from Adam Rudolph's 35 piece Go Organic Orchestra. Recorded over a ten day concert series last year, this recording contains the most accessible yet sophisticated music from the West Coast version of the Orchestra. 15 woodwind players, 9 percussionists, 12 string players and harp are conducted by Adam Rudolph in interpretations of 12 new compositions. Album Tracks 1. Overture 2. Mirrors 3. Axis 4. Ka 5. Romance 6. Sonar 7. Interior 8. Circular 9. Kaleidophone 10. Atmos 11. Golden 12. River Run

The 25 member Organic Orchestra presents InchWeb of Light,Inch a piece featuring 22 angklung (bamboo shakers). The orchestra's concept is to generate unusual relationships of sound against sound, form against form, and rhythm against rhythm in a nonlinear, ever shifting kaleidoscope of music images, weaving it all into what Adam Rudolph calls an Inchaudio syncretic music fabricInch. This powerful piece intertwines unison drum breaks and improvisation with slides of deep space objects, and also included 22 bottles blown over the lip, combined with contemporary harmonies and scale patterns. Contains an African xylophone solo and a drum solo by Rudolph. Album Tracks 1. Pulsar, Pt. 1 2. Pulsar, Pt. 2 3. Pulsar, Pt. 3 4. Pulsar, Pt. 4 5. Atomspheres of Thought, Pt. 1 6. Atomspheres of Thought PT, 2 7. Atomspheres of Thought, Pt. 3 8. Atomspheres of Thought, Pt. 4 9. Magnetic Fields of Mind 10. Pleiades, Pt. 1 11. Pleiades, Pt. 2 12. Interior Necessity 13. Web of Light 14. Sirius Mysteries