{"id":1882,"date":"2010-02-09T22:57:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/?page_id=1882"},"modified":"2010-02-09T22:57:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:57:59","slug":"paul-lansky-now-and-then","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/?page_id=1882","title":{"rendered":"Paul Lansky | Now and Then"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paul Lansky<\/strong><br \/>\n(1944) is one of the pioneers of computer music.&nbsp; Most of his electronic works are available on recording, largely on Bridge Records and have been played and broadcast widely. In 2002 he was the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from SEAMUS (Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States) and in 2000 he was the subject of a documentary made for the European television ARTE network, <em>My Cinema for the Ears<\/em>, directed by Uli Aumueller and now available on DVD.&nbsp; A number of dance companies have choreographed his works, including Bill T. Jones\/Arnie Zane, Alvin Ailey II, and the Eliot Feld and New York City Ballets.&nbsp; <br \/>\nIn recent years he has been increasingly turning his attention to instrumental music. Recent works include &#8218;Ricercare Plus&#8216; for string quartet; &#8218;With the Grain&#8216;, a guitar concerto written for David Starobin; &#8218;Etudes and Parodies&#8216; (horn violin and piano) for Bill Purvis (winner of the 2005 International Horn Society competition) and &#8218;Threads&#8216;, written for S? Percussion.&nbsp; He is currently composer in residence with the Alabama Symphony.&nbsp; He is now completing Imaginary Islands, commissioned, and to be premiered by that group in May 2010.&nbsp; <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/paullansky.org\" target=\"_blank\">paullansky.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/Photos\/playing_with_words\/paul-lansky.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/Photos\/playing_with_words\/paul-lansky.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong> Now and Then<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/gruenrekorder\/1\/playing_with_words\/28_Now_and_Then_by_Paul_Lansky.mp3\">MP3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Common wisdom has it that it is never too soon to read to children. Even before they can speak they enjoy the regular, soothing patterns of speech &ndash; it must be a kind of music to them.&nbsp; We regularly read to our children and &#8218;Now and Then&#8216; is a musical encapsulation of the sound of this activity.&nbsp; Here my wife, Hannah MacKay, reads several dozen phrases, all typically found in many children&rsquo;s stories, and all of which refer to time &ndash; hence the title of the piece.&nbsp; They thus form a kind of story with no content, merely the chronological underpinnings of one. I supply musical continuity and decoration (using the sounds of my children playing in the kitchen) and our memories of the sound of this special kind of speech-music take care of the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Lansky (1944) is one of the pioneers of computer music.&nbsp; Most of his electronic works are available on recording, largely on Bridge Records and have been played and broadcast widely. In 2002 he was the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from SEAMUS (Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States) and in 2000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1882","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}