"The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is a call for all of us to search our souls about the way we live, and to demand that our elected officials take real action to fight climate change and move our economy to sustainable energy sources."
- John Luther Adams
Listen to JLA's Dark Waves
Now in production is Four Thousand Holes - a new CD from JLA featuring pianist Stephen Drury, percussionist Scott Deal and the California E.A.R. Unit - to be released in early 2011 on Cold Blue Music.
John Luther Adams has been named the recipient of the 2010 Nemmers Prize in Music Composition. JLA was cited by the selection committee "for melding the physical and musical worlds into a unique artisitc vision that transcends stylistic boundaries." You can read his thoughts here.
Inuksuit for nine to ninety-nine percussionists will be performed next winter at the Armory on Park in New York City. The piece was recently performed at the Round Top Festival.
Inuksuit was premiered at the Banff Centre in the Canadian Rockies. A video about it is posted at www.newyorker.com. You can read an interview with JLA here, and a more extended conversation with JLA and Steven Schick here.
JLA is currently at work on Ilimaq - an extended piece for drummer Glenn Kotche (of Wilco) - and writing a new book titled True Places: An Atlas of Memory.
JLA's book The Place Where You Go to Listen is now available from Amazon and Wesleyan University Press.
"...a rare and valuable opportunity to enter the mind and heart of an artist as he grapples with both the mundane and the profound.. his words - and his compositons - ... point toward ways that we each might experience more fully the places where we go to listen."
