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Unseen Worlds 2CD Release
Unseen Worlds currently releases via Allegro Classical, Nail, and Forced Exposure the 2CD set Elodie Lauten "Piano Works Revisited." The set compiles out-of-print favorites "Piano Works" and "Concerto for Piano and Orchestral Memory", her "Variations on the Orange Cycle" (included in Chamber Music America's Century List), and other previously unreleased music. Nearly all of the music has never been previously available on CD, and all is newly re-mastered for digital presentation. WNYC's John Schaefer contributes liner notes to this edition. The selections from "Concerto for Piano and Orchestral Memory" feature Downtown contemporaries Arthur Russell and Peter Zummo. For more information visit: Unseen Worlds / unseenworlds.net
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Composer Elodie Lauten's musical oeuvre includes many electronic and electro-acoustic pieces, as well as chamber and orchestral music. Lauten's landmarks are unique neo-operas - some of which she has directed - evolving or deconstructing the classic form: The Death of Don Juan (1985), Existence (1991), The Deus Ex Machina Cycle (1997), Orfreo (2004) and Waking in New York (1999), which appeared on a list of the most influential works of the last three decades.
Lauten's music has been presented by the Lincoln Center Festival, the New York City Opera, WNYC, The Kitchen, the Performing Garage, the Dance Theater Workshop, La Mama, the Soho Baroque Opera, Downtown Music Productions, AFMM, Interpretations, the SEM Ensemble, The Whitney Museum, and at the Paris Museum of Modern Art. The current discography includes 30 titles to-date, released on Lovely Music, O.O. Discs, Point/Polygram, New Tone (Italy), 4-Tay, Tellus, Nonsequitur, Capstone, Frog Peak, Pitch, Studio 21 and Unseen Worlds.
No stranger to visual and media arts, Lauten has had solo, collaborative and group gallery showings in New York and Boston including sound installations, drawings, as well as computer-based art and animation.
In 2008 Lauten's music was featured in the Seattle Chamber Players' Classics of Downtown program along with major names in the industry, curated by critics Alex Ross and Kyle Gann.
Lauten received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, and The Music Liberty Initiative. Lauten has taught on the composition faculty at New York University. She currently teaches music technology at NYC Tech. She is a regular contributor to the classical music internet publication Sequenza21. With 20 years of experience as a producer of both recordings and live events, she is currently the artistic director for Lower East Side Performing Arts. She is a writer/publisher member of ASCAP.
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