Sun Rings is a Kronos Quartet project comprising pre-recorded sounds from space, images from space, music for string quartet and chorus composed by Terry Riley, and visuals by Willie Williams.[1][2]
It premiered 26 October 2002 at the Hancher Auditorium, University of Iowa.[1]
The project started in 2000 when the NASA Art Program invited the Kronos Quartet to incorporate sounds, recorded over a period of 40 years by plasma wave receivers on board spacecraft, into music.[2]
References
- ^ a b "Sounds of Space and Kronos".
- ^ a b "Sun Rings at Kronos Quartet website".
External links
- Sun Rings at Kronos Quartet website
- Space Audio
Terry Riley
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| Collaborations | - Church of Anthrax
- Cadenza on the Night Plain
- Salome Dances for Peace
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- David Harrington
- John Sherba
- Hank Dutt
- Paul Wiancko
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| Studio albums | - In Formation (1982)
- Monk Suite: Kronos Quartet Plays Music of Thelonious Monk (1985)
- Terry Riley: Cadenza on the Night Plain (1985)
- Music of Bill Evans (1986)
- Kronos Quartet (1986)
- Winter Was Hard (1988)
- Kronos Quartet Plays Terry Riley: Salome Dances for Peace (1989)
- Black Angels (1990)
- Witold Lutosławski: String Quartet (1991)
- Kevin Volans: Hunting:Gathering (1991)
- Five Tango Sensations (1991)
- Henryk Mikolaj Górecki: Already It Is Dusk/"Lerchenmusik" (1991)
- Pieces of Africa (1992)
- Short Stories (1993)
- Henryk Górecki: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 (1993)
- At the Grave of Richard Wagner (1993)
- Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet (1993)
- All the Rage (1993)
- Night Prayers (1994)
- Tan Dun: Ghost Opera (1997)
- Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ) (1997)
- Kronos Quartet Performs Alfred Schnittke: The Complete String Quartets (1998)
- Terry Riley: Requiem for Adam (2001)
- Steve Reich: Triple Quartet (2001)
- Nuevo (2002)
- You've Stolen My Heart (2005)
- Henryk Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 ('...songs are sung') (2007)
- Kronos Quartet Plays Sigur Rós (2007)
- Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic (2008)
- Floodplain (2009)
- Uniko (2011)
- Folk Songs (2017)
- Sun Rings (2019)
- Long Time Passing (2020)
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| Soundtracks | - Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
- Dracula (1999)
- Requiem for a Dream (2000)
- The Fountain (2006)
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