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Harold Budd (born May 24, 1936) is an American ambient/avant-garde composer. Born in Los Angeles, California, he was raised in the Mojave Desert, and was inspired at an early age by the humming tone caused by wind blown across telephone wires. May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). ...
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Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise. ...
A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ...
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Looking across from Emigrant Pass towards the Kingston Range in the eastern Mojave. ...
His career as a composer began in 1962. In the following years he gained a notable reputation in the local avant-garde community. In 1966 he graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in musical composition. The University of Southern California (also known as USC, SC, Southern California and Southern Cal), located in the urban center of Los Angeles, California, was founded in 1880, making it Californias oldest private research university. ...
As his career progressed, his compositions became increasingly minimal. Among his more experimental works were two drone pieces, "Coeur d'Orr" and "The Oak of the Golden Dreams". "The Oak of the Golden Dreams" was based on the Balinese "Slendro" scale. After composing a long-form gong solo titled "Lirio", he felt he had reached the limits of his experiments in minimalism and the avant-garde. He retired temporally from composition in 1970 and began a teaching career at the California Institute of the Arts. Bali is an Indonesian island located at , , one of the Lesser Sunda Islands. ...
Slendro (called salendro by the Sundanese) is a pentatonic (five tone) scale, one of the two most common scales used in Indonesian gamelan music. ...
Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. ...
The California Institute of the Arts, commonly known as CalArts, and located in Valencia, California, USA, grants degrees in visual and performing arts. ...
Two years later, while still retaining his teaching career, he resurfaced as a composer. Spanning from 1972-1975 he created four individual works under the collective title The Pavilion of Dreams. The style of these works was an unusual blend of popular jazz and the avant-garde. In 1976 he resigned from the institute and began recording his new compositions, produced by British ambient pioneer Brian Eno. Two years later Harold Budd's debut album The Pavilion of Dreams was released. Brian Eno in 1977 Brian Peter George St. ...
Since then he has developed a unique and powerful style of ambient music. His two collaborations with Brian Eno, The Plateaux of Mirror and The Pearl, established his trademark atmospheric piano style. In Lovely Thunder he introduced subtle electronic textures. His thematic 2000 release The Room saw a return to a more minimalist approach.
His album Avalon Sutra from 2004 was billed as "Harold Budd's Last Recorded Work" by the record label SamadhiSound. Their press release continues: "Avalon Sutra brings to a conclusion thirty years of sustained musical activity. Asked for his reasons, Budd says only that he feels that he has said what he has to say. With characteristic humility, he concludes, “I don’t mind disappearing!”"
In spite of this, Budd's soundtrack to the film Mysterious Skin (a collaboration with Robin Guthrie) and Music for "Fragments From the Inside" (with Eraldo Bernocchi) were both released in 2005. Robin Guthrie is a co-founder of Cocteau Twins. ...
Discography
- 1970 The Oak of the Golden Dreams / Coeur D'Orr (with works by Richard Maxfield) [New World Records]
- 1978 The Pavilion of Dreams [Editions EG]
- 1980 The Plateaux of Mirror (with Brian Eno) [Editions EG]
- 1981 The Serpent (in Quicksilver)(EP) [Cantil]
- 1982 Abandoned Cities [Cantil]
- 1984 The Pearl (with Brian Eno) [Editions EG]
- 1986 Lovely Thunder [Editions EG]
- 1986 The Moon and The Melodies (with Cocteau Twins) [4AD]
- 1987 Myths 3: La Nouvelle Serenite (with Gavin Bryars & Jon Hassell) [Sub Rosa]
- 1988 The White Arcades [Opal]
- 1991 By the Dawns Early Light (with Bill Nelson) [Opal]
- 1992 Music for 3 Pianos (with Daniel Lentz & Ruben Garcia) [Hannibal]
- 1994 She is a Phantom [New Albion]
- 1994 Through the Hill (with Andy Partridge) [Hannibal]
- 1995 Glyph (with Hector Zazou) [Made To Measure]
- 1996 Walk Into My Voice: American Beat Poetry (with Daniel Lentz & Jessica Karraker)
- 1996 Luxa [All Saints]
- 2000 The Room [Atlantic]
- 2002 Agua (live at the Lanzarote Music Festival, Dec. 1989) [La Cooka Ratcha]
- 2003 La Bella Vista [Shout Factory]
- 2003 Translucence/Drift Music (with John Foxx) [Edsel]
- 2004 Avalon Sutra/As Long As I Can Hold My Breath [SamadhiSound]
- 2005 Music For "Fragments From The Inside" (with Eraldo Bernocchi) [Sub Rosa]
- 2005 Mysterious Skin (original Soundtrack) (with Robin Guthrie) [Commotion]
Richard Maxfield (February 2, 1927 - 1969) was a composer of instrumental, electro-acoustic, and electronic. ...
Ambient 2/The Plateaux of Mirror (1980) is an album by ambient musicians Harold Budd and Brian Eno. ...
Brian Eno in 1977 Brian Peter George St. ...
The Pearl (1984) is an album by ambient musicians Harold Budd and Brian Eno. ...
The Moon and the Melodies (1986) is a album by the British group Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd. ...
Guthrie, Fraser, and Raymonde Cocteau Twins were an influential and prolific Scottish band. ...
Not to be confused with The Libertiness bassist John Hassall Jon Hassell (born March 22, 1937, Memphis, Tennessee) is an American musician and trumpet player. ...
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Discography Albums External links Hector Zazou reviewed by All Music Guide Hector Zazou reviewed by MBHs Sunday Features ...
John Foxx is the stage name of English musician Dennis Leigh. ...
Robin Guthrie is a co-founder of Cocteau Twins. ...
Ephemera - The indie rock band Rothko has a song titled "Harold Budd" on their album In The Pulse Of An Artery (which uses a sample from Budd's "Boy About 10" from his album By The Dawn's Early Light.)
- Harold Budd and Eugene Bowen contributed the track "Wonder's Edge" to the Cold Blue label compilation.
- The Harold Budd track "Balthus Bemused By Colour" from his album The White Arcades is included as part of the 70 Minutes of Madness DJ mix by Coldcut.
- On saxophonist Marion Brown's 1975 album Vista, Harold Budd plays celeste and gong on the track Bismillahi 'Rrahmani 'Rrahim, a shorter version of the same composition on Budd's 1978 album The Pavilion Of Dreams (which also includes Marion Brown as saxophone soloist).
- In 1961, While in the military, Harold Budd briefly played drums in an Army band with legendary avant-garde saxophonist Albert Ayler.
Mark Rothko (September 25, 1903 - February 25, 1970) was a painter, often classified as an abstract expressionist (although Rothko vociferously denied being an abstract painter). ...
Jonathan Moore (left) & Matt Black Coldcut is a duo comprising English DJs Matt Black and Jonathan Moore. ...
Marion Brown (born 8 September 1935 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA) is a jazz alto-saxophonist and ethnomusicologist. ...
Marion Brown (born 8 September 1935 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA) is a jazz alto-saxophonist and ethnomusicologist. ...
Albert Ayler (July 13, 1936–November 1970) was an American jazz saxophonist, singer and composer. ...
External links - New Albion Records Harold Budd page
- SamadhiSound Harold Budd page
- Ambience for the Masses Harold Budd page
- Harold Budd: American Vision article from Sound On Sound magazine
- soundNET Concert Archives A rare live performance of works by Harold Budd (September 18, 2004) [streaming Quicktime audio]
- Somnambule Review of Harold Budd "Farewell Concert" at Brighton Dome (May 21, 2005)
- Harold Budd: Harold in May article from The Independent (5/11/06)
For other uses, see The Independent (disambiguation). ...
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