Innova Recordings Releases Barry Schrader’s “Lost Atlantis”

(PRWEB) November 8, 2004

Innova Recordings has just released “Lost Atlantis”, an album of analog electro-acoustic music by composer Barry Schrader. The CD contains “Trinity” and all six movements of "Lost Atlantis", music composed in 1976 and 1977 on the Buchla 200 modular synthesizer in the CalArts electro-acoustic music studios.

The “Lost Atlantis” CD was produced and remastered from the original tapes by noted film composer Gary Chang. Mr. Chang has succeeded in creating a sparkling renovation of the original sound by using advanced computer technology to process the original data. Mr. Chang remarks “It has been a privilege to have worked on these wonderful and historical pieces. Barry’s music has always been an influence to my musical perspective. When I heard “Trinity” at the Vanguard Theater in the spring of 1976, it left a lasting impression - a brooding romantic gesture, deep in musical detail, yet unapologetically electronic.”

“Lost Atlantis” represents the pinnacle of analog electronic music composed on classical synthesizers in the 1970s. As noted by the Los Angeles Times, “Barry Schrader's ‘Lost Atlantis’ reveals Schrader as a composer born to the electronic medium. He paints with veiled and mysterious tone colors, creates descending sine-tone scales of exquisite delicacy and spins out dramatic crescendos climaxing in peaks of brassy brilliance. He generates sequenced rhythms with various percussive envelopes: woodlike clacks, hollow drum sounds, giant xylophones and steel drums.”

The “Lost Atlantis” CD release on Innova Recordings is supported by a grant from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording program and available on Innova 629.

Barry Schrader’s compositions for electronics, dance, film, video, multimedia, live/electro-acoustic combinations, and real-time computer performance have been presented throughout the world. Schrader is the founder and the first president of SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States), and has been responsible for the initiation and operation of SCREAM (Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music), the Currents concert series, and the CalArts Electro-Acoustic Marathon. He has written for several publications including several editions of “The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians”, “Grollier's Encyclopedia”, “Contemporary Music Review”, and “Journal SEAMUS”, and is the author of the book “Introduction to Electro-Acoustic Music”. He is currently on the Composition Faculty of the School of Music of the California Institute of the Arts, and has also taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara and California State University at Los Angeles. His music is recorded on the Opus One, Laurel, CIRM, SEAMUS, Centaur, and Innova labels.

The “Lost Atlantis” CD will be available at regular and online stores in early January, and is available now from Innova at http://innova.mu/artist1.asp?skuID=218.

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