{"title":"Sheet music composed by John Luther Adams (1953-)","description":"John Luther Adams (1953-) is a composer from United States of America. 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When I first heard that piece I began to wonder if I could sustain a similar sound for a longer span of time. The result is \u003cem\u003eBecome Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e , a meditation on the vast, deep and mysterious tides of existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title is borrowed from a mesostic verse that John Cage wrote in honor of Lou Harrison's birthday. 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Originally the piece was scored for percussion trio and de-tuned 'cello. I conducted that version in my ?nal semester at the California Institute of the Arts. in time, I came to regard it as my last student work, and withdrew it from my active catalog.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFast forward thirty-some-odd years to the spring of 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor quite some time, I'd had in mind to compose a perpetual acceleration canon - music that seems always to be getting faster, but somehow never really does. As I pondered this I remembered that piece from long ago. So I dug out the old score and looked it over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom my new perspective, it seemed to me that my younger self had been attempting to compose a continuum of discontinuities - weaving disparate timbres and velocities into a subtly articulated whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new version of Always Very Soft contains not a single note from the original version. 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