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Artist
Mark Rownd
12+ albums
ambientelectronicdrone ambientspace musicSpotted Peccary
about
If there's a musician who's experienced bringing music alive, it's Mark Rownd. As a composer, Rownd has a distinct style of creating pieces that, much like the sounds in nature, flow together in ever-changing and unpredictable rhythms. Rownd compares his composing technique to abstract painting. "As you start working on the blank canvas, soon the work begins to speak to you," he said. "Once you've created something that speaks on many levels, you've got a piece of art." Like painting, Rownd's music comes alive first as improvisations as he allows the energy and feelings of the moment extend into sounds. "The ideas express themselves," he said. "They sort of well up and then come out. Once you have established the beginning of a composition, then the piece itself starts telling you what to do next." Rownd's first two CDs were both well received. He drew international attention when he self released his first work, Desert Waves, which he describes as embodying a contrast between very rhythmic and textural music. Desert Waves was placed on New Age Voice Magazine's international airwaves charts. The artist garnered widespread acclaim from his second CD, Painting Twilight, which was released through Spotted Peccary Music in 1998. The CD, described as a textural, almost ambient, sublime work, earned Rownd the distinction of New Age Voice Magazine naming him an Ambient Album-of-the-Year finalist and also placing the work as the number four pick on its top 50 airwaves list. S
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