Various Artists - Music from Seamus 22 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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. The of the back catalog from the Music from SEAMUS series continues here with Volume 2, originally released in 1993. Electro-acoustic works by composers Scott Wyatt, Jeffrey Haas, Barry Schrader, Cort Lippe, Charles Norman Mason, George Todd, and James Mobberley are featured.

This unique disc, a selection of the most hauntingly beautiful and moving Gregorian chants for the Feasts of the Cross, was inspired by the mood of the Lithuanian Hill of Crosses. The deeply impressive scene was erected as a monument against religious oppression under Communist rule and has served to inspire many with its great beauty. Graces & Voices draw on the spiritual power of the place to feed a spring of beauty in Gregorian chant that will both soothe and inspire.

SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) continues with it's commendable series of releasing recordings of works by it's member composers. This volume is the most recent, curated in 2019 by it's current director of recordings, Scott Miller. 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 that are dependent on electric 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. Composers featured on this include Kyong Mee Choi, Brian Topp, Akiko Hatakeyama, Robert McClure, Chi Wang, Lucas Marshall Smith, Fang Wan, and Caroline Louise Miller.