Method Music

I love Method Music so much. I feel, when I listen to it, as if I am plugging into a dimension that allows my creativity to flourish. I highly recommend it to all you Creators here and everywhere!Lawrence was on my radio show, Kate Loving And The Collective Wisdom, Blog Talk Radio, and something he said about the CD struck me.He said that we are moving into a time of great change, known as 2012, and that his music reflects the help we are receiving from galactic sources.I used his music from the CD to help my dog pass over, and I also use it as I create products for my Internet business. As mentioned, it fosters a climate for Divine Innovation.Thank you, Lawrence!!

I'm familiar with Lawrence's work and have liked it for a long time. But this album represents something new and wonderful. I would call Lawrence's music ambient and repetitive, usually piano or computer-generated and very hypnotic. This new double album has a new layered richness to it -- I find it very emotional and otherworldly in a good way. Beautiful sounds from a deep place, with much more heart in it. Imaginary Sitters is very lively and uplifting, while Imaginary Galaxies is calming and transcending. A beautiful album for helping bring yourself to a grounded, healed place.

I absolutely LOVE this album. It's so soothing. I've used it while meditating. Well worth the price.I've been listening to it for close to 3 weeks now.

What do you get when you put science, math and rock music together? Well you might get what you hear on the 2012 CD release entitled Method Music from English composer and scientist Lawrence Ball. Fans of rock legend Pete Townshend will want to hear this double CD set as it was not only co-produced by Pete but the style and content kind of echoes back to Townshend’s fascination with the moog synthesizer during the Who’s Next to Quadrophenia periods of the early 1970’s. Townshend’s moog intro to “Baba O’Reilly” is the stuff of legends and fittingly Lawrence Ball’s use of random programming of moog like instrumental music makes for some adventurous and quite sonically pleasing music. The eleven tracks on disc one here are entitled Imaginary Sitters while disc 2, entitled Imaginary Galaxies, features three 20+ minute instrumentals dedicated to Syd Barrett, Hugh Hopper and György Ligeti. Describing how he based this production upon inspirations dating back to his famous but ill-fated Lifehouse concept that was never fully realized, Townshend himself wrote some pretty illuminating CD liner notes included here, discussing his “Lifehouse Method” and what he wanted Ball to do musically on this album. Fans of instrumental legends like Ron Geesin, Terry Riley and sonic pioneers like Varese and Zappa will want to give a listen to Ball’s cutting edge synthesized euphoria.

I'm generally suspicious of mathematically-generated music. A lot of what I've heard sounds academic, mechanical, and lifeless. Not so with Lawrence Ball's compositions Imaginary Sitters, and Imaginary Galaxies.The liner note attempt to explain in part the algorithms (harmonic math) behind the music, but it really doesn't matter. What counts is that Method Music works.Ball worked with Pete Townsend (of the Who), who produced this two-disc set. Disc one is a set of short, five-minute Imaginary Portraits, created by feeding data about the subject into a computer, which then used the Method Music algorithms to convert them into sound.The first track, Meher Baba Piece is a morphing variation on the opening to the Who's hit Baba O'Riley. Almost as soon as the listener recognizes it,though, the theme starts to stretch and change.The remaining portraits (ten out of a much larger set), are similar in structure. All are electronic works, and have a basically tonal structure. Superficially, they sound like the minimalist compositions of Steve Reich, with repeated motives gradually moving out of phase with each other. But there's more to it than that.Although I couldn't say exactly what Method Music was, I could decidedly hear it at work. These pieces have an underlying logic to them that's different than minimalism. And that logic is apparent throughout the pieces. This is highly organized music that's moving towards a goal - although it's getting there through an unfamiliar path. People who enjoy contemporary classical music as well as progressive and experimental rock should find common aesthetic ground in Imaginary Sitters.Imaginary Galaxies, which makes up the second disc of the set, might appeal more to the classical rather than the rock listener. Although the compositional organization is the same, these are much larger and complex works. Each of the three pieces runs about twenty minutes. The pacing is slower, and the changes are more subtle. Timbre becomes more important, and if Imaginary Sitters were painted with primary colors, Imaginary Galaxies would be a wider spectrum of pastel and blended colors.Ball writes, "I hope the listener feels as if held in a sonic cradle, watching an intricate musical mobile." It's an apt description, and I certainly did.

un doppio cd particolare che la prima parte è molto bello con la collaborazione di Pete townshend, uscito nel 2012, ma già pubblicizzato nel 2007 musica sperimentale, bello ma la 2 parte è un po' tosto, non facile da sentire.