The Music
Daedalus Requiem
Aloft on Broken Wings
The Art of Flying
**These are pre-mix drafts and do not represent the finished album**
Aloft on Broken Wings
The Art of Flying
**These are pre-mix drafts and do not represent the finished album**
The Story
The Icarus Album is a musical reinterpretation of the Greek myth of Daedalus, who creates wax wings for him and his son to fly to freedom. In my version it is Daedalus who falls into the ocean and Icarus who must fly onward without his father. Now forced to learn new ways to use the broken wings he has inherited.
This story is significant to me for a number of reasons. Icarus, and his need to fly not too high and not too low, is a common metaphor for people living with Bipolar disorder, something I struggle with and which influences much of my life and artistic process. Daedalus, the inventor and builder of the wings is a representation of my father, also a brilliant engineer and inventor, who died tragically by suicide a year before I began this project.
The album combines classical strings and horns with contemporary electro-acoustic sound design. Each track tells a specific part of the story and is titled accordingly. It fits best in the loosely defined New Classical genre but could also find a home with contemporary Neoclassical, Post-classical or Pop-classical composers.
The album uses music and not words for its storytelling.
The electro-acoustic sections are built from digitally reversed piano, a technique which flips the natural decay of a piano to create a sound that emerges from silence, crescendos to its loudest point and then suddenly falls off. This unique timbre is a foundational building block for the album's storytelling.
Other digitally manipulated sounds on the album are real-world noises which have been sampled and electronically manipulated into the desired soundscape. This is used heavily in the track “Daedalus Requiem”.
This story is significant to me for a number of reasons. Icarus, and his need to fly not too high and not too low, is a common metaphor for people living with Bipolar disorder, something I struggle with and which influences much of my life and artistic process. Daedalus, the inventor and builder of the wings is a representation of my father, also a brilliant engineer and inventor, who died tragically by suicide a year before I began this project.
The album combines classical strings and horns with contemporary electro-acoustic sound design. Each track tells a specific part of the story and is titled accordingly. It fits best in the loosely defined New Classical genre but could also find a home with contemporary Neoclassical, Post-classical or Pop-classical composers.
The album uses music and not words for its storytelling.
The electro-acoustic sections are built from digitally reversed piano, a technique which flips the natural decay of a piano to create a sound that emerges from silence, crescendos to its loudest point and then suddenly falls off. This unique timbre is a foundational building block for the album's storytelling.
Other digitally manipulated sounds on the album are real-world noises which have been sampled and electronically manipulated into the desired soundscape. This is used heavily in the track “Daedalus Requiem”.
The team
I am honored to work with a team of such astoundingly good musicians, engineers, and producers. Together we have created transcendent music that I am confident will shine as brightly as any major label production.
Violin– Mattia Berrini
Violin–Roxanne Sicard (Roxanne plays a 1741 Carlo Antonio Testore on loan by the Canimex Group)
Viola– Pemi Paul
Cello– Silvia Buttiglione
Bass– Reuven Rothman
Trumpet – Bertrand Margelidon
Sound Design– Devon Bate
Conductor– Roozbeh Tabandeh
Producer– Anit Ghosh
Promotion– GFN Productions
Violin– Mattia Berrini
Violin–Roxanne Sicard (Roxanne plays a 1741 Carlo Antonio Testore on loan by the Canimex Group)
Viola– Pemi Paul
Cello– Silvia Buttiglione
Bass– Reuven Rothman
Trumpet – Bertrand Margelidon
Sound Design– Devon Bate
Conductor– Roozbeh Tabandeh
Producer– Anit Ghosh
Promotion– GFN Productions