Jeff Talman, image by Francine Orr/LA Times

OF SOUND BEFORE THE STARS
MT WILSON OBSERVATORY

LA TIMES BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC OF 2019

...music of otherworldly wonder is made as if for an ancient temple housing a religious icon.  Mark Swed

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image: spectrogram, detail of recording

OF SOUND BEFORE THE STARS
NEW RELEASE

NOW AVAILABLE @ BANDCAMP

Harmonics blossomed from deep fundamentals as if stars from the divine hum that made the heavens.  Mark Swed

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ST PETER'S CHURCH, NYC

UNDER THE SUN

An ethereal engagement is guaranteed, thanks to the refined and rarefied passages and to the activation of an ideal tuning that aspires to superior and intelligible harmonies. Aurelio Cianciotta

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REVIEW – UNDER THE SUN

NEURAL MAGAZINE, ITALY

He is a pioneer of ambient sound composition... the result cannot be anything but brilliant: the control of every single ring of the chain is perfect, there are no flaws... Aurelio Cianciotta

...music is made of the air, the medium of flight, the ether between us. Music is made of the sky.

Jeff Talman, The New York Times

...the sound is ethereal, uncanny and apocalyptic

Thomas Frank, WDR5, West German Broadcasting


New York Times article, Birds of New York, image: birdcall spectrogram

NASA video: Sound Waves in Stars, Talman/Huber sound

Rothko Chapel, Houston. Presentation with Dr. Daniel Huber

NPR interview: Nature of the Night Sky, Bavarian Forest

...absolutely bewildering and heavenly.

Paul Bennett, Wired Magazine

...everything feels at home. There is a perfect fit.
You sit or stand or walk in an ambience that is alive...

Paul Griffiths, The New York Times


2020 re-releases — remixed, revised, remastered

downloads available at bandcamp


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