Industrial Monk is an electronic music duo which combines industrial music with Gregorian chants and other religious liturgies. Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ... Duet may refer to: Duet, musical form Duet, Fox sitcom This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music. ... Gregorian chant is also known as plainchant or plainsong and is a form of monophonic, unaccompanied singing, which was developed in the Catholic church, mainly during the period 800-1000. ... Fishers of Men, oil on panel by Adriaen van de Venne (1614) Various religious symbols Religion is commonly defined as a group of beliefs concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine, and the moral codes, practices, values, institutions and rituals associated with such belief. ... From the Greek word λειτουργια, which can be transliterated as leitourgia, meaning the work of the people, a liturgy comprises a prescribed religious ceremony, according to the traditions of a particular religion; it may refer to, or include, an elaborate formal ritual (such as the Catholic Mass), a daily activity such...

Overview

Industrial Monk is comprised of Frederick Vogler and Takashi Kawai. Prior to the genesis of Industrial Monk, Vogel and Kawai worked as sound engineers and sound designers for the Hollywood movie industry and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Audio engineering is a part of audio science dealing with the recording and reproduction of sound through mechanical and electronic means. ... Sound design is a technical/conceptually creative field. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... The Los Angeles Philharmonic is an orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, USA. From 1964 to 2003, the orchestra played its concerts in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles Music Center. ...

Their first album, Magnificat, was distributed by the Telarc record label to moderate critical acclaim. However, the critical acclaim was not matched by commercial success. Their second record, Prophecies, was released by the RCM record label. The release was delayed for nearly two years due to legal wrangling. An early, promotional release of the CD featured a cover of Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein", but when the CD actually hit the shelves a year later, this track was missing. Their most recent album is only available via Internet download. An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... Telarc International Corporation is a Cleveland, Ohio based independent record label, founded in 1977 by two classically trained musicians and former teachers, Jack Renner and Robert Woods. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in producing, manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and sometimes video recordings (especially music videos), on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Commerce is the trading of something of value between two entities. ... A compact disc (or CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. ... In popular music a cover version is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ... Edgar Winter album cover Edgar Winter (born December 28, 1946 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American musician who had significant success in the 1970s and 1980s. ... Frankenstein is the name of two rock and roll songs. ... See Wikipedia:Uploading images for information about uploading images to Wikipedia. ...

Discography

• Magnificat (1998)
• Prophecies (2001)
• IM3 (2005)

External link

http://www.industrialmonk.com – Official Industrial Monk website (requires Macromedia Flash) Macromedia Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Macromedia Flash Player and to a multimedia authoring program used to create content for it as well as games or movies created using the program. ...