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The Farthest Place * * * * * * * * The Farthest Place * The Music of John Luther �dams Edited by Bernd Herzogenrath � Northeastern University Press Boston northeastern university press An imprint of University Press of New England www.upne.com © 2012 Northeastern University All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Eric M. Brooks Typeset in Arnhem and Aeonis by Passumpsic Publishing University Press of New England is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. For permission to reproduce any of the material in this book, contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon NH 03766; or visit www.upne.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The farthest place: the music of John Luther Adams / edited by Bernd Herzogenrath. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-1-55553-762-3 (cloth: alk. paper)— isbn 978-1-55553-763-0 (pbk.: alk. paper)— isbn 978-1-55553-764-7 1. Adams, John Luther, 1953– —Analysis, appreciation. I. Herzogenrath, Bernd, 1964–. ml410.a2333f37 2011 780.92—dc23 2011040642 5 4 3 2 1 * For Frank and Janna Contents Acknowledgments * ix Introduction * 1 bernd herzogenrath 1 Song of the Earth * 13 alex ross 2 Music as Place, Place as Music The Sonic Geography of John Luther Adams * 23 sabine feisst 3 Time at the End of the World The Orchestral Tetralogy of John Luther Adams * 48 kyle gann 4 for Lou Harrison * 70 peter garland 5 Strange Noise, Sacred Places * 77 steven schick 6 Go There to Listen How Music Based on Nature Might Not Need Natural Sounds * 107 david rothenberg 7 The Thunder That Smokes * 116 glenn kotche 8 How Do You Play with an Aura? The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies * 131 robert esler 9 Qilyaun * 143 scott deal 10 The Color Field Music of John Luther Adams * 157 todd tarantino 11 The Light Within * 180 molly sheridan 12 Timbral Listening in Dark Waves * 188 dave herr 13 Place and Space The Vision of John Luther Adams in the Ultramodernist Tradition * 206 robert carl 14 The Weather of Music Sounding Nature in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries * 219 bernd herzogenrath 15 songbirdsongs and Inuksuit Creating an Ecocentric Music * 235 david shimoni A Catalogue of Works By and About John Luther Adams * 269 noah pollaczek List of Contributors * 301 Index * 305 Acknowledgments I would like to thank upne (in particular Richard Pult) for giving me and us the opportunity to work on this labor of love for John Luther Adams, and all those wonderful people who contributed to this volume—it has been a pleasure! Most of all I would like to thank John himself for support, encouragement, and practical help—highly appreciated! While working on this book project, two important and life-changing things happened to me: in the summer, our little daughter Janna was born . . . she’s our cute little clinamen, the tiny little thing that makes life swerve into unfore- seen directions. And in the early morning hours of Christmas Eve, my beloved little brother Frank died, after more than four years of living under the shadow of an incurable, malignant brain tumor. I can only now, in retrospect, see how brave he had been all those years. Frank now has gone farther than the farthest place, and my only hope is that this turns out to be the closest place as well. It is to Janna and Frank that I dedicate this book. Some of the essays in this book already had a previous life: Alex Ross’s “Song of the Earth” was published in The New Yorker, May 12, 2008. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_ ross, reprinted with kind permission of the author. Peter Garland’s “For Lou Harrison” is reprinted from the liner notes for John Luther Adams—For Lou Harrison (New World Records 80669-2). © 2007 Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc. Used by permission. Part of Bernd Herzogenrath’s “Introduction” and “The ‘Weather of Music’: From Ives to Adams” was already published as “The ‘Weather of Music’: Sounding Nature in the 20th and 21st Centuries.” Deleuze|Guattari & Ecology. ed. Bernd Herzogenrath. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 216–32. Reprinted with kind permission. All illustrations are reprinted with kind permission of John Luther Adams, and Taiga Press, with the exception of figure 5.2, which is copyright 2008 Lisa Tolentino Esler and is reprinted with kind permission.
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