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Artist
stephen gard
12+ albums
electronicjazzcontemporary classicalorchestralglitch
about
Stephen Gard (born Sydney 1952) is an Australian composer of electroacoustic (and other) music. Electricity and music make a daring mix. Whether we speak of its substance, or its metaphoric effect, electricity, when tamed and set to work, has always sparked experiment and generated risk; nowhere is this more evident than in the art of electroacoustic music. We hear much about the menace of technology, but the electroacoustic composer embraces it, meddles with its apparatus, speaks in technology's tropes, brings us a little closer to understanding this wild and powerful force we have wrought but cannot grasp. Electroacoustic composers like Stephen Gard are part Orpheus and part engineer, who cull snippets of sound and gobbets of light from the lived world and wrest these, in dark digital laboratories, into works of wonder, alarm and delight. The timbres are not orchestral timbres, the forms are alien forms, the realisations are often ephemeral. The results are always electric. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
