Albums
SOLI Chamber Ensemble: Música, Por Un Tiempo
Albany Records (Troy 1505)
Featuring Crows for clarinet, violin, cello, piano
Luminoso
Innova Recordings (Innova 662)
features six vibrant compositions for solo instrument with electronics
Recommended by Alex Ross, music critic of The New Yorker
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Time Out New York | Steve Smith
“The hardware and software Gardner employs on Luminoso respond to her commands like a pianist’s Steinway or a fiddler’s Strad; her electronic elements seem to move with the same volition and flexibility as her human collaborators. Even so, nothing meanders: Each work on Luminoso has a shape, a momentum and a destination.”
The Rambler | Tim Rutherford-Johnson
“Alexandra Gardner’s Luminoso is an album of warm light and cool evening breezes… The strength of Gardner’s often spellbinding music on this CD is its thoughtful composition…”
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Julian Elvira, Obres per a flauta i electrónica
Ars harmonica #AH212
Featuring New Skin for alto flute and electronics
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Carlos Gil Ferrer, Obres per a trombó i electrónica
Ars harmonica #AH192
Featuring Snapdragon for trombone and sampled sounds
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MARBLEHEAD: electronic music 1990-2000
Marblehead features seven electronic pieces composed between 1990 and 2000. Included on the CD are Marblehead for sampled toy marbles on tape, the thunderstorm meditation Sleeping Weather, Shifting Sands, Waterbourne, Framework, Picking Up and Excavation. Several of these compositions were originally created for modern dance, commissioned by choreographers Sharon Mansur, Nancy Havlik and Daniel Burkholder.
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