WC-005
Elodie Lauten "Transform EP"
Edition of 500 vinyl copies
First 100 copies printed on deluxe Stumptown White/Kraft Duplex jackets
Screenprinted covers
Full-colour insert
Liner notes by Jayson Greene
Artwork by Joshua Gurrie
Design by Kimmy Laposky
Hand-stamped and numbered with love
Elodie Lauten "Transform EP"
Edition of 500 vinyl copies
First 100 copies printed on deluxe Stumptown White/Kraft Duplex jackets
Screenprinted covers
Full-colour insert
Liner notes by Jayson Greene
Artwork by Joshua Gurrie
Design by Kimmy Laposky
Hand-stamped and numbered with love
Wilde Calm Records is honored to present new work from the late Elodie
Lauten, New York City composer and recipient of the 2014 Robert
Rauschenberg Award. Lauten had been exploring microtonality and
alternative temperament since working on a Fairlight CMI synthesizer in
the early 1980s and up until her untimely death, had been continuing
these explorations with the Klio, her custom modular Reaktor software
synthesizer.
Many Wilde Calm fans will be familiar with Lauten’s music from her numerous collaborations with fellow downtown luminary Arthur Russell. Lauten and Russell met through their mutual poet friend Allen Ginsberg and shared a similar sensibility of musical openness and possibility as evident in their spiritual club classic “In the Light of the Miracle” and Russell’s appearance on Lauten’s seminal post- minimalist masterwork The Death of Don Juan.
Five remastered selections from her most recent album Transform feature on the EP in addition to a Wilde Calm remix. For fans of Laurie Spiegel and Suzanne Ciani, Lauten’s synth explorations are essential.
Many Wilde Calm fans will be familiar with Lauten’s music from her numerous collaborations with fellow downtown luminary Arthur Russell. Lauten and Russell met through their mutual poet friend Allen Ginsberg and shared a similar sensibility of musical openness and possibility as evident in their spiritual club classic “In the Light of the Miracle” and Russell’s appearance on Lauten’s seminal post- minimalist masterwork The Death of Don Juan.
Five remastered selections from her most recent album Transform feature on the EP in addition to a Wilde Calm remix. For fans of Laurie Spiegel and Suzanne Ciani, Lauten’s synth explorations are essential.
