Harold Budd

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Harold Budd (2008)

Harold Montgomery Budd (born May 24, 1936 in Los Angeles - † December 8, 2020 ) was an American pianist , composer and poet. Laut.de said he was "one of the most important ambient artists ." He also worked with Brian Eno and the Cocteau Twins .

Live and act

Budd, who grew up in the Mojave Desert , played music with free jazz pioneer Albert Ayler during his military service . In 1966 he completed his composition studies with Ingolf Dahl at the University of Southern California . Inspired by John Cage and Morton Feldman , he began to experiment with indefinite improvisation and initially occupied himself with graphic notation in his compositional work . Between 1966 and 1970 he designed his compositions in terms of minimalismincreasingly economical and worked with softly booming bass pipes or long extended gong tones and a minimum of instructions for the musicians.

In 1970 he had explored this formal language and got into a creative crisis; he began teaching at the California Institute of the Arts , where he stayed until 1976. For a university festival he wrote the piece Madrigals of the Rose Angel in 1972 (for harp, electric piano, celesta, percussion instruments and female choir); he himself worked as a pianist. During the next few years he wrote the compositions for the album The Pavilion of Dreams , on which he occupied himself with long-paused pedal play. Two years later he worked with Brian Eno (and guitarist Eugene Bowen) on the album Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirrors , which was later followed by two more joint albums.

In the 1980s there was also collaborations with Robin Guthrie and other musicians from Cocteau Twins , with whom he recorded Moon and the Melodies and The White Arcades . On his 1991 album By the Dawn's Early Light , Budd combined spoken poetry with his music; on She Is a Phantom he continues with this synthesis. He also worked on Music for Three Pianos with the pianists Ruben Garcia and Daniel Lentz. In 1994 another recording with spoken poems follows. In 1994, together with Andy Partridge from XTC, the album Through The Hills was created. On the album The Room (2000) he returned to minimalism. In 2003 Daniel Lanois recorded La Bella Vista beyond the studio atmosphere .

In 2004, Budd came to the conclusion that musically he had said everything and that he would no longer compose. His last work, Avalon Sutra / As Long As I Can See My Breath , was published in 2005. However, earlier and later recordings were also published, such as the album Perhaps , which he recorded in memory of his colleague James Tenney , and a new one was signed Record deal.

In 2012, Budd was recognized at the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco.

Harold Budd died as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

stylistics

Most of Budd's works are characteristic of “his floating calm sounds. The melodies and different timbres are precisely coordinated with one another. ”In some cases, he also resorts to foreign musical cultures, such as the scales of Indonesian gamelan music . "Not only electronic sounds, but also acoustic instruments to a large extent are used in his pieces."

Discography

Studio albums

  • The Oak of the Golden Dreams / Coeur D'Orr (1970) Advance Recordings
  • The Pavilion of Dreams (1978) EG Records
  • Harold Budd / Brian Eno Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror (1980) EG Records
  • The Serpent (In Quicksilver) (1981) Cantil
  • Harold Budd / Brian Eno The Pearl (1984) EG Records
  • Abandoned Cities (1984) Cantil
  • Harold Budd / Elizabeth Fraser / Robin Guthrie / Simon Raymonde The Moon and the Melodies (1986) 4AD
  • Lovely Thunder (1986) EG Records
  • The White Arcades (1988) Opal Records
  • By the Dawn's Early Light (1991) Opal Records with Bill Nelson , BJ Cole, Susan Allen
  • Harold Budd / Ruben Garcia / Daniel Lentz Music for Three Pianos (1992) All Saints Records
  • Brian Eno / Daniel Lanois / Michael Brook / Roger Eno / Laraaji / Harold Budd / John Paul Jones / Misha Mahlin & Lydia Theremin Music for Films III (1993) All Saints Records
  • Harold Budd with Zeitgeist She Is a Phantom (1994) New Albion
  • Harold Budd / Andy Partridge Through the Hill (1994) All Saints Records
  • Luxa (1996) All Saints Records
  • Harold Budd, Daniel Lentz & Jessica Karraker Walk into My Voice: American Beat Poetry (1996) Materiali Sonori
  • The Room (2000) Atlantic Records
  • Harold Budd, Bill Nelson & Fila Brazillia Three White Roses & A Budd (2002) Twentythree Records
  • La Bella Vista (2003) Shout Factory
  • Avalon Sutra / As Long as I Can Hold My Breath (2004) Samadhi Sound
  • Harold Budd / Robin Guthrie Mysterious Skin - Music from the Film (2005) Commotion Records / Rykodisc
  • Eraldo Bernocchi / Harold Budd Music for ›Fragments from the Inside‹ (2005) Sub Rosa
  • Harold Budd / Robin Guthrie After the Night Falls (2007) Darla Records
  • Harold Budd / Robin Guthrie Before the Day Breaks (2007) Darla Records
  • Harold Budd / Clive Wright A Song for Lost Blossoms (2008) Darla Records
  • Harold Budd / Clive Wright Candylion (2009) Darla Records
  • Harold Budd / Clive Wright Little Windows (2010) Darla Records
  • Harold Budd / Robin Guthrie Bordeaux (2011) Darla Records
  • In the Mist (2011) Darla Records
  • Bandits of Stature (2012) Darla Records
  • Jane 1-11 (2013) Darla Records
  • Jane 12-21 (2014) Darla Records
  • Harold Budd / Robin Guthrie White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) Lakeshore Records
  • John Foxx / Harold Budd / Ruben Garcia Nighthawks (2015) Metamatic
  • Luxa (2018)

Live recordings

  • Agua (1989) Opal Records
  • Jah Wobble ’s Solaris Live in Concert (2002) 30 Hertz Records with Graham Haynes , Jaki Liebezeit , Bill Laswell
  • Harold Budd / John Foxx Translucence / Drift Music (2003) Edsel Records
  • Perhaps (2007) Samadhisound
  • Harold Budd / Robin Guthrie / Eraldo Bernocchi Winter Garden (2011) RareNoiseRecords

Compilations

  • Wind in Lonely Fences 1970–2011 (2013) All Saints Records with Cocteau Twins, Robin Guthrie, John Foxx & Brian Eno
  • Buddbox (2013) All Saints Records

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jon Blistein: Heralded Ambient Composer Harold Budd Dead at 84 In: Rolling Stone , December 8, 2020. Accessed December 9, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b portrait. laut.de
  3. ↑ Brief portrait. NNDB
  4. ↑ Festival Other Minds 2012 ( Memento from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  5. ↑ "Harold Budd, Iconic Ambient Composer, Dead at 84" on pitchfork.com from December 8, 2020 (English)
  6. ^ New Albion Records ( memento of October 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Budd, Harold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Budd, Harold Montgomery (full name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION American pianist, composer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2020