Cave Vaults of the Moon, by Joanne Forman

Cave Vaults of the Moon

by Joanne Forman

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1.	Starrise - Invocation of the Dawn 01:15	buy track
2.	The Twittering Machine 03:20	buy track
3.	Lauds 02:55	buy track
4.	Codex 05:14	buy track
5.	Meridian 02:58	buy track
6.	Moon Castle I 03:13	buy track
7.	Promeni I 03:50	buy track
8.	Preludiae Terrae 01:39	buy track
9.	Promeni II 02:41	buy track
10.	Moon Castle II 02:03	buy track
11.	Compline 03:15	buy track
12.	Starset 01:22	buy track

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We humans, the nascent beings that we are, still haven’t quite figured out the full potential of music. Dancing, meditating, emoting, protesting; these are all pretty basic. But what if we communicated more complex ideas with music? What if we codified all of our activities with music? This idea came to composer Joanne Forman when she was commissioned to create the soundscape for an environmental exhibition of sculpture called Artifacts from an Alien Civilization in 1987. The sculptures, elaborate ruins that had been found on the moon, begged the question: who created them and for what purpose?

Joanne Forman imagined that Earth’s moon was a vacation spot for advanced beings from another galaxy. Cave Vaults of the Moon became a collection of sonic texts describing the fun things that went on there; earth-viewing, collecting information, building and playing. In her mind the sculptures in the exhibit were the remnants of a deserted playground of moon castles.

Forman’s playful score for voice, Ensoniq Mirage, Juno 106, flute, guitar and effects, wafted through the exhibit every day for a month and then lay dormant for nearly 30 years. Unearthed here, Cave Vaults of the Moon sounds prescient and timeless, as if the Wicker Man had been scored by Pep Llopis and Iasos, and now we have the opportunity to reimagine the messages contained within it.

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released June 13, 2018

All music composed by Joanne Forman

Melanie de More: contralto & guitar
Nancy Laupheimer: flute

Recorded and mixed at Moondance Studios, Taos, New Mexico in 1987
Engineered by Frank Vuotto and Peter Miceli

Special Effects equipment used: Ensoniq Mirage, Juno 106, ART Digital Reverb, Delta Lab Digital Delay

Remaster by Brandon Hocura
Design by Alan Briand

P&C Séance Centre 2018
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