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Silences So Deep audiobook
- By: John Luther Adams
- Narrator: Jim Meskimen
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Composers & Musicians
- Length: 6 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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Silences So Deep Audiobook Summary
A memoir of a composer’s life in the Alaskan wilderness and a meditation on making art in a landscape acutely threatened by climate change.
In the summer of 1975, the composer John Luther Adams, then a twenty-two-year-old graduate of CalArts, boarded a flight to Alaska. So began a journey into the mountains and forests of the far north–and across distinctive mental and aural terrain–that would last for the next forty years.Silences So Deep is Adams’s account of these formative decades–and of what it’s like to live alone in the frozen woods, composing music by day and spending one’s evenings with a raucous crew of poets, philosophers, and fishermen. From adolescent loves–Edgard Varese and Frank Zappa–to mature preoccupations with the natural world that inform such works as The Wind in High Places, Adams details the influences that have allowed him to emerge as one of the most celebrated and recognizable composers of our time. A Kunstlerroman with an artistic sensibility all its own, Silences So Deep is also a memoir of solitude enriched by friendships with the likes of the conductor Gordon Wright and the poet John Haines. Whether describing the travails of environmental activism in the midst of an oil boom or midwinter conversations in a communal sauna, Adams writes with a voice both playful and meditative, one that evokes the particular beauty of the Alaskan landscape and the people who call it home.Ultimately, it is also the story of Adams’s difficult decision to leave a rapidly warming Alaska and to strike out for new topographies and sources of inspiration. In its attentiveness to the challenges of life in the wilderness, to the demands of making art in an age of climate crisis, and to the pleasures of intellectual fellowship, Silences So Deep is a singularly fecund account of a creative life.
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Silences So Deep Audiobook Narrator
Jim Meskimen is the narrator of Silences So Deep audiobook that was written by John Luther Adams
Jim Meskimen is a stage, film, and television actor who has appeared in many well-known movies and television shows. He acted in Apollo 13 and Frost/Nixon for director Ron Howard, both of which were nominated for Best Picture Oscars. His television appearances include The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Friends, Lie to Me, Criminal Minds, and Parks and Recreation. He is also a painter, award-winning audiobook narrator, and audiobook director for Galaxy Audio.
About the Author(s) of Silences So Deep
John Luther Adams is the author of Silences So Deep
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Silences So Deep Full Details
| Narrator | Jim Meskimen |
| Length | 6 hours 1 minutes |
| Author | John Luther Adams |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 19, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781094193120 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Silences So Deep is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Composers & Musicians
Additional info
The publisher of the Silences So Deep is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781094193120.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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