{"product_id":"silences-so-deep-paperback","title":"Silences So Deep - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Luther Adams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e An] illuminating memoir. --Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of a composer's life in the Alaskan wilderness and a meditation on making art in a landscape acutely threatened by climate change\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the summer of 1975, the composer John Luther Adams, then a twenty-two-year-old graduate of CalArts, boarded a flight to Alaska. So began a journey into the mountains, forests, and tundra of the far north--and across distinctive mental and aural terrain--that would last for the next forty years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSilences So Deep \u003c\/i\u003eis Adams's account of these formative decades--and of what it's like to live alone in the frozen woods, composing music by day and spending one's evenings with a raucous crew of poets, philosophers, and fishermen. From adolescent loves--Edgard Var se and Frank Zappa--to mature preoccupations with the natural world that inform such works as \u003ci\u003eThe Wind in High Places\u003c\/i\u003e, Adams details the influences that have allowed him to emerge as one of the most celebrated and recognizable composers of our time. \u003ci\u003eSilences So Deep \u003c\/i\u003eis also a memoir of solitude enriched by friendships with the likes of the conductor Gordon Wright and the poet John Haines, both of whom had a singular impact on Adams's life. Whether describing the travails of environmental activism in the midst of an oil boom or midwinter conversations in a communal sauna, Adams writes with a voice both playful and meditative, one that evokes the particular beauty of the Alaskan landscape and the people who call it home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUltimately, this book is also the story of Adams's difficult decision to leave a rapidly warming Alaska and to strike out for new topographies and sources of inspiration. In its attentiveness to the challenges of life in the wilderness, to the demands of making art in an age of climate crisis, and to the pleasures of intellectual fellowship, \u003ci\u003e Silences So Deep\u003c\/i\u003e is a singularly rich account of a creative life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Luther Adams \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Meridian, Mississippi, and attended the California Institute of the Arts before moving to Alaska in 1978, where he lived until 2014. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music and a Grammy Award for his orchestral composition \u003ci\u003eBecome Ocean\u003c\/i\u003e, which was premiered by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra in 2013. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eWinter Music: Composing the North \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Place Where You Go to Listen: In Search of an Ecology of Music\u003c\/i\u003e. Since leaving Alaska, Adams has lived in New York City and in the deserts of Mexico, Chile, and the Southwestern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 8.38 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 21, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58181159977041,"sku":"9781250800046","price":18.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/YmV6dkQ0Z3p3Q2o2aWhaYjF4VHNwUT09.webp?v=1757264142","url":"https:\/\/apocalypsevinyl.com\/products\/silences-so-deep-paperback","provider":"Apocalypse Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}