He has been making ambient space music of the highest order since at least the mid-1990’s, with such iconic albums as The Resonant Memory of Earth, Moontribe, and Far Beyond The Immobile Point, any one of which would qualify as essential listening. If you’re not familiar with Max’s music, you need to be. On this week’s Blue Water Drift Dive, I will continue on this trajectory, this time focusing on the stunning space music of Max Corbacho. The past several weeks, I have been having a blast doing deep dives into the music of some of my favorite artists. The show starts at 7 PM US Pacific time / 10 PM US Eastern time on Friday January 19th (3 AM UTC January 20th) and will last at least three hours. In addition, Herpich has written award-winning works for acoustic ensembles, scored theatre, dance, and film productions, and lectured on the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen. At both institutions, he focused his studies on electronic music, working under Michael Timpson, Paul Reller, and Edward Mattila. Throughout it all, Emerald Adrift has maintained a consistent approach to sonic expression which defies any obvious genre categorization.ĭavid holds degrees in music theory and composition from the University of Kansas, and completed his master’s degree in contemporary composition as a recipient of the University Graduate Fellowship Award at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Eclectic yet unified, the music of Emerald Adrift explores the unusual confluences of melodic synth-pop with avant-garde abstraction, meditative ambiances with propulsive rhythms, and purely electronic timbres with otherworldly manipulations of sounds from everyday life.Īn interest in diverse synthesis technologies has led to the use of various commercial and academic computer-based applications, numerous additive, wavetable, FM, and analogue keyboards, and vintage rarities such as the E-mu and ARP 2500 modular systems. And not only will there be a concert, but I’ll be doing an in-depth feature on the music of Emerald Adrift throughout the broadcast.įor those of you who might not know, Emerald Adrift is a nom de plume of composer and electronic musician David Herpich. I’m very excited to announce that, on the next Blue Water Drift Dive, I’ll be hosting a live on-air concert by David Herpich of Emerald Adrift. I hope you’ll join us! And if you tune in, be sure to stop by the chat room and say hello. We’ll be listening to music from several of his albums, including two never before heard on RadioSpiral. To me, this is the mark of a great composer, someone who can create something tasteful and enduring, starting from absolutely nothing, and make it look and sound easy. His work has the unique property that, even when listening for the first time, it seems instantly familiar and somehow just exactly right, as if nothing could possibly be changed, however slightly, without reducing the holistic impact of the piece. Also recording as Janneh, he is a multi-instrumentalist who produces some of the most effortless and engaging space music I have heard. If you aren’t familiar with Janne’s work, you need to be. This week, we will focus on the music of an artist I have known and loved for many years: Janne Hanhisuanto. On the next edition of Blue Water Drift Dive, we will continue the series of deep dives into the music of my favorite artists.
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