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The Otto Laske Collection Part Three: Electronic Music

by Otto Laske

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Lorelei, Song 1 (2004) 12:29 video
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Intimations of Earlier Heaven (2007) 24:37
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Being and Nothingness, Mvt. 3 (2009) 11:52
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In these compositions, I assemble and unify highly variable Kyma orchestrations of a large number of short to medium-long alphanumeric scores produced by Koenig’s Program One. The scores are sequenced, superimposed, interspersed, and collagiert for the sake of designing a cohesive symphonic form that is often punctuated by silences. Throughout, individual orchestrations (i.e., scores orchestrations) are conceived of as human musicians improvising in real time with overlapping entries of differing duration that create an constantly changing flow of sound densities. The music is strongly lyrical and meditative but can also be dramatic as in the movement from Being and Nothingness. Differing lengths of silences mark the depth of the inner dialogue articulated.

See also the individual program notes for each piece.

The listener should note that the creative process that led to the compositions here streamed is very different from traditional composition in that it is, at the same time, a real-time performance, and a recording session if not also the final mastering, as in contemporary intermedia composition. This multi-faceted process enables the composer to develop an entire composition from an alphanumeric base score whose syntactic, spatial, and timbral potential for variation becomes the foundation of an entire work. As a result, the entire creative process takes place in the compositional domain like in digital painting, the result being a finished piece of art.

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released August 28, 2023

Otto Laske is a pioneer of software-based composition in both its instrumental-vocal and electronic forms. He is also a cognitive musicologist, poet and visual artist. As a musicologist, he created a new literature on music focused on understanding music composition and analysis as researchable cognitive processes that can be illuminated and taught by focusing on the ‘thought forms’ used by individual creators. On this basis, he expanded what G.M. Koenig called Composition Theory, working extensively with, and reflecting upon, the latter’s ‘Project One’ composing software. His music and poetry are found at www.ottolaske.com, his visual art at www.saatchiart.com/olaske.

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Otto Laske is a pioneer of software-based composition in both its instrumental-vocal and electronic forms. He is also a cognitive musicologist, poet and visual artist. As a musicologist, he created a new literature on music focused on understanding music composition and analysis as researchable cognitive processes that can be illuminated by focusing on the ‘thought forms’ used by creators. ... more

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