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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is an actual 30 acre garden located in the Borders area of Scotland. The creation of architect and critic Charles Jencks and his late wife, Maggie Keswick, the garden was a 15-year project which was inspired by fractals, genetics, chaos theory, waves and solitons. Jenck’s garden and resulting book captured the imagination of Michael Gandolfi, an American composer whose earliest musical experiences were in rock and jazz improvisation, which he explored as a self-taught guitarist. Later he became interested in music composition and pursued formal studies and is now faculty member of the New England Conservatory and the Tanglewood Music Centre. “I have long been interested in modern physics,” Gandolfi commented “and it seemed proper for music to participate in this magnificent joining of physics and architecture. I discovered The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, and after a month or so of sketching musical ideas, I decided to focus on several aspects of the garden to which I had the strongest musical response. “Music has often depicted landscapes but rarely with the programmatic intentness of this curious 68-minute orchestral fantasia, given a brilliant premiere recording. The actual garden of cosmic speculation is that created in the Border country by the architect Charles Jencks, who finds equivalents for fractals, quantum theory, DNA theory and the like. Gandolfi responds with bright, energetic tone pictures (the 16 modular movements can be assembled ad libitum) in a breezy farrago of tonal styles. Minimalism, neo-baroquery, show music rub against each other. The quotation-laden movement, The Universal Cascade, whizzes through musical history from chant to Miles Davis. It is all very entertaining, if a bit Disneyish.” Sunday Times, 18th May 2008 *** | 
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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is an actual 30 acre garden located in the Borders area of Scotland. The creation of architect and critic Charles Jencks and his late wife, Maggie Keswick, the garden was a 15-year project which was inspired by fractals, genetics, chaos theory, waves and solitons. Jenck’s garden and resulting book captured the imagination of Michael Gandolfi, an American composer whose earliest musical experiences were in rock and jazz improvisation, which he explored as a self-taught guitarist. Later he became interested in music composition and pursued formal studies and is now faculty member of the New England Conservatory and the Tanglewood Music Centre. “I have long been interested in modern physics,” Gandolfi commented “and it seemed proper for music to participate in this magnificent joining of physics and architecture. I discovered The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, and after a month or so of sketching musical ideas, I decided to focus on several aspects of the garden to which I had the strongest musical response. “Gandolfi has an admirable way with colour, rhythm and melodic transformation, creating music that is exuberant, compelling and entertaining.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2008 **** |
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