| About Rustles and Waves |
| Andrew Gooding has Been composing, recording and producing music for well over 20 years and has a Degree in Music Instrument Technology from London Guildhall University. He also has an instrument of my own design at the Centre for New Musical Instruments. He has worked as a sound programmer for a composer in TV Advertising and with several other artists including members of Zag and the Coloured Beads and Levitation. Rustles and Waves is his latest project. |
| About The Music |
| Composers should attempt to defy classification. However, for a rough guide only.......... You could describe Andrew as a 2nd generation minimalist composer, with a strong emphasis on the use of synthesizers. The nature of this music crosses over into, and takes influences from, Minimalism, Ambient, Electronica, Jazz, North Indian Classical Music and African Folk. Though not necessarily all at the same time. |
| Particular Musicians and Composers who have been an important influence are: (Though some of the influences are perhaps wishful thinking) |
| Brian Eno - For his ambient pioneering, use of synthesizers and production techniques. |
| David Byrne - For showing that musicians/composers can create great pop music, and music of great artistic integrity, even at the same time. (This is where the wishful thinking definitely come in. I have little pop sensibility.) |
| Olivier Messiaen - For his in depth use of bird song, and broad minded compositional genius. |
| Pierre Boulez - For his idea that a composer should also be a sound-engineer/Acoustic-scientist. |
| Steve Reich and Phillip Glass - For their minimalist layering and fresh ideas on orchestration, and contributing to bringing drumming back to the concert halls of Europe and America. |
| John Adams - For taking the minimalist foundations and adding development, excitement and even a sense of fun. His works have made the minimalist term redundant. |
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