Various Artists - Music from Seamus 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Selim Palmgren studied with Busoni and developed a formidable technique, later becoming one of the leading Nordic composer-pianists of his generation. This fourth volume of Palmgren's complete piano works reveals yet more remarkable contributions to 20th-century piano literature including one of his masterpieces, the Nocturne in Three Scenes, a compound of Impressionist and Romantic elements. His fruitful years in America are reflected by the jazz-influenced Three Fantasies and throughout one can hear examples of the beautiful folk-based music that is so much a feature of his compositions.

SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) continues it's project of releasing it's extensive back catalogue of recordings, including Volume 3 which features works by Scott A. Wyatt, Larry Nelson, Joseph Koykkar, Joseph L. Anderson, Charles Norman Mason, Stephen David Beck, Eric David Chasalow, and Paul Koonce. SEAMUS is a non-profit national organization of composers, performers, and teachers of electro-acoustic music. Electro-acoustic music is a term used to describe those musics which are dependent on electronic technology for their creation and/or performance. SEAMUS strives to address not only relevant technology but also the non-technical issues of aesthetics, collaboration, education, and ethical/social issues pertinent to the electro-acoustic music community. Through it's journal, newsletter, recordings, national meetings, and it's national archive at the University of Texas at Austin, SEAMUS seeks to increase communication among the diverse constituency of this relatively new musical medium.

Music from SEAMUS, vol. 22 continues the organization's series of recordings chronicling the work of it's member composers. Featuring music from this 2013 edition by Asha Srinivasan, Paula Matthusen, Eli Fieldsteel, Kyong Mee Choi, Jason Bolte, Andrew Seager Cole, Jeff Herriott, Ed Martin, Jon Appleton and Paul Botelho, this recording provides excellent insight into vanguard practices in electronic and electro-acoustic music. SEAMUS is a non-profit organization of composers, performers, and teachers of electro-acoustic music. Electroacoustic music is a term used to describe those musics that are dependent on electronic technology for their creation and performance. SEAMUS strives to address not only relevant technology but also the non-technical issues of aesthetics, collaboration, education and ethical/social issues pertinent to the electro-acoustic music community.