The album "Houses of the Wind" is composed entirely from a single ten-and-a-half-minute recording, which was then transposed, layered, and sculpted into five new pieces.
Composer Biography
In the late 20th century, John Luther Adams made field recordings of elemental sounds, such as fire, ice, thunder, and glaciers, across Alaska.
Recording & Production
The album was produced by John Luther Adams, Nathaniel Reichman, and Jim Fox, and mixed and mastered by Nathaniel Reichman in 2022.
Composition History
The inspiration for "Houses of the Wind" came from listening to a segment of a small aeolian harp recorded in the Arctic in the summer of 1989.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Composer John Luther Adams's music for the past thirty years has been inspired by the sounds of aeolian harps, which are instruments played by the wind.
