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Through Studio 21, ELodie Lauten provides cost-effective production services that may include, depending on clients' needs, arrangements, artistic direction, executive production, graphic design and packaging. The Studio 21 label and its Studio 21 Underground bar-code free collection are dedicated to preserving artists' work in its utmost integrity for archival purposes.

CHARLOTTE SURKIN, mezzo soprano
Uptown Downtown

Charlotte Surkin is an extraordinarily versatile mezzo soprano whose repertoire extends from alto leads in classic oratorios and requiems to operatic roles from Baroque to current. For this CD, she carefully selected a set of blues-inspired songs by William Bolcom, Jack Gottlieb, Lou Rodgers and settings of Langston Hughes by John Musto. She is accompanied by Megumi Kitamura, piano, Tim Carter, clarinet and Shari Cornutt, English Horn.
Bar-code free non-commercial issue (2005)
More information at: www.charlottesurkin.com


TUNES FROM THE LOWER EAST SIDE
A first release for powerful blues and experimental guitarist Jonathan Hirschman, who has earned a reputation on the New York downtown scene, with keyboard arrangements by Lauten.
2003


Listen to excerpt: Raga tune

web site: www.geocities.com/jonathan_hirschman

DRY ICE
Poet/songwriter/producer Steven Hall's collection of songs gathered in Tai Wan, Hong Kong and New York, some in collaboration with the late Arthur Russell, with Mustafa Ahmed, percussion and Peter Zummo, trombone.
2003
ELODIE LAUTEN ENSEMBLE
Harmonic Protection Circle
Original session with Lauten on synthesizer, Mustafa Ahmed on percussion, Jonathan Hirschman on electric guitar and Matthew Fieldes on contrabass, performing the Harmonic Protection Circle, a 'Be In' the resonance of an E fundamental and its own 20 overtones in just intonation.
This is the first release on the new Studio 21 Underground bar-code free collectors' edition.

CHAMBER MUSIC AT HOPE
Student performance at Hope College, MI, of three Elodie Lauten new chamber works: The Wish of the Quickening Moon, a string quarte; The Elusive Virgin Bachelor (or T.E.V.B.), a piano trio; and Links for solo flute. Producer: John Erskine.
2004

 

ORFREO
The Orphic Death of Ray Johnson

Opera with libretto by Michael Andre, a neo-Baroque post-minimal sound with double subtext of Orpheus and Ray Johnson, performed by The Queen's Chamber Band, conducted by Rudolph Palmer, featuring countertenor Marshall Coid in the leading role.
2004

THE MYSTERY OF THE ELEMENTS
for piano and synthesizer
Improvisational soundtrack inspired by six universal elements elements:  Velocity, Electricity, Magnetism, Randomness, Revolution and Rebirth.


The Mystery of the Elements soundtrack was used in a film and video installation by Rosalind Schneider, shown at the Hudson River Museum, the Donnell Library and Diva Video Arts Fair.
2002

S.O.S.W.T.C.
One of the most powerful works to bloom out of the ashes of the World Trade Center attacks was Elodie Lauten's S.O.S.W.T.C.
NEW YORK PRESS
2001

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