TRACKLIST

1. Nyala: First Section. . .13:06 2. Nyala: Second Section. . .3:33 3. Nyala: Third Section. . .22:31 4. Nyala: Fourth Section . .13:04

Carl Stone (born Carl Joseph Stone, February 10, 1953) is an American composer, primarily working in the field of live electronic music. His works have been performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, and the Near East.
Stone studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. In addition to his composition and performance schedule, he is a faculty member in the Department of Information Media, School of Information Science and Technology at Chukyo University in Japan.
Stone utilizes a laptop computer as his primary instrument and his works often feature very slowly developing manipulations of samples of acoustic music, speech, or other sounds. Because of this, as well as his preference for tonal melodic and harmonic materials similar to those used in popular musics, Stone's work has been associated with the movement known as minimalism.
Prior to his settling on the laptop, in the 1980s, he created a number of electronic and collage works utilizing various electronic equipment as well as turntables. Prominent works from this period include Dong Il Jang (1982) and Shibucho (1984), both of which subjected a wide variety of appropriated musical materials (e.g. Okinawan folk song, European Renaissance music, 1960s Motown, etc.) to fragmentation and looping. In this way his work paralleled innovations being made in the early days of rap and hip hop (e.g. Grandmaster Flash, of whose work he was unaware at the time). It was during this period that he began naming many of his works after his favorite restaurants (often Asian ones).
His first residency in Japan, sponsored by the Asian Cultural Council, was from November 1988 to April 1989. While living in Tokyo he collected more than 50 hours of recordings of the city's urban soundscape, which he later used as the basis for his radio composition Kamiya Bar, sponsored by Tokyo FM radio, and released on a CD of the same name by the Italian label NewTone / Robi Droli.
Stone has collaborated frequently with Asian performers, including traditional instrumentalists such as Min Xiao-Fen (pipa), Yumiko Tanaka (shamisen), Kazue Sawai (koto), Michiko Akao (ryuteki), and those working with modern instruments, such as Otomo Yoshihide (turntables, guitar), Kazuhisa Uchihashi (guitar, daxophone), Yuji Takahashi (computer, piano), and vocalists such as Reisu Saki and Haco. He has also collaborated on an album with Hirohito Ihara's Radicalfashion.
Beginning in the early years of the 21st century, Stone began to compose more frequently for acoustic instruments and ensembles, completing a new work for the San Francisco Bay Area-based American Baroque.
Stone served as president of the American Music Center from 1992 to 1995, and was director of Meet the Composer/California from 1981 to 1997. He also served as music director of KPFK-FM in Los Angeles from 1978 to 1981.
For many years, Stone has divided his time between San Francisco and Japan. ~ from Wiki

This is about as far as ambient could possibly go. Lovers of unchallenging popular music will have great difficulty in understanding the 50 mins of compositions. The four sections of ‘Nyala’ were commissioned to accompany Kuniko Kisanuki (a dancer) and Satcru Shoji (a sculptor). The 40 min work was first seen in 1995, and in the conversion process to album, a new section was added and the final section was extended. The first track starts so quietly, there is a serious need to increase the volume by a hearty amount. You would need a 100 watt amplifier just to power your headphones! The volume and complexity of the first section slowly builds into a composition without any real form whilst retaining hazy smoothing passages of intrigue. After 12 mins, beware of the drum which startles and caused me to Jump whilst listening on headphones. He knows how to play with the senses. The third section is the longest at just over 20 mins, which allows the artist to use differing loops and samples that seen to be out of step with each other and yet somehow blend together in a strange hypnotic way. Stone is certainly an experimentalist, creating not a monster, but an album that challenges the boundaries of what is perceived as music. Absolutely fascinating. ~ by Phil Brook

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