Sonic Vision

Track Listings
1. Same Sky    
2. More Spirit Than Matter...: I. Ein Bischen    
3. More Spirit Than Matter...: II. Plain Music    
4. More Spirit Than Matter...: III. Spinning Music    
5. Love God    
6. 10/18: I. Burning Man    
7. 10/18: II. Breathless    

Sonic Vision, Music, Carolyn Yarnell, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Music, Jazz
Sonic Vision
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • transporting, haunting, unabashedly beautiful
Sonic Vision
Carolyn Yarnell
Manufacturer: Tzadik
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Chamber MusicChamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Jazz | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00009IAY9
Release Date: 2003-06-24

Tracks:

  1. The Same Sky
  2. More Spirit Than Matter...: I. Ein Bischen
  3. More Spirit Than Matter...: II. Plain Music
  4. More Spirit Than Matter...: III. Spinning Music
  5. Love God
  6. 10/18: I. Burning Man
  7. 10/18: II. Breathless

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars transporting, haunting, unabashedly beautiful.......2003-10-05

I find myself barely resisting the urge to launch into a diatribe about the compartmentalizing of music today.... because this CD crosses so many musical
-category lines it's mind-blowing.
On Sonic Vision, Carolyn Yarnell exhibits a compositional ability and, perhaps more importantly, an undeniable comfort and facility with musical genres so disparate it leaves me dumbfounded....
However.
In truth, I wouldn't care much about her technical range were it not for the fact that Sonic Vision not only presents a unified artistic vision, but is also a CD that is just absurdly beautiful--even spiritual-- and unabashedly so.

Love God is driven by an implied funk rhythm that is realized only at the piece's end, when a straight-up irresistable techno-house beat manifests. Until then, a casio-ish synthesiser, piano, and solo voice seem to query the structure of this piece of music in which they find themselves. And it's an interesting chat they have.

Apparently the newest piece--10/18, featuring a baroque flute with very 21st-century after-effects--recalls, well, perhaps a sephardic shepherd song--or maybe a coyote in the middle of the night--and so it's hard to resist the
conclusion that these tales are, much like Yarnell's choices of instrumentation, equal. These stories, as well as any image of Aloneness that may haunt or inspire a listener, speak of an existential loneliness that (apologies to
sartre, camus &c.) words cannot describe. We're all here together. And we're all alone.

Does it matter when an instrument was made, if it "speaks" to the human soul?
I guess I don't think so.... certainly not anymore.

I'm always amazed when an album title is true to the music it names. Sonic Vision certainly lives up to its promise of synesthesia.... And, in the spirit of that confused mingling of the senses, Yarnell's CD transports the listener to deserts, mountains, even tiny creeks within dark forests...Until a
track ended, i found that i hadn't even questioned the *fact* that i'd been smelling sage, seeing broad red sunset horizons, and hearing the rush of water over pebbles, all in my own living room.
Hold on
Average customer rating: Not rated
    Hold on

    Manufacturer: Muss My Hair
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    Pop RockPop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B000CAG1WE
    Release Date: 2003-08-26

    Tracks:

    1. Such Simple Love
    2. Beautiful
    3. Sometimes Why
    4. Scratch That Itch
    5. Gus
    6. Sweet Sweet Day
    7. Push
    8. Just a Dream
    9. Evil I
    10. Beautiful Day
    11. Just One Smile
    12. Garbage
    13. Yes is for Why
    14. From the Sky
    15. Hold On
    16. Such Simple Love (demo)
    3D Vision: 3D Stories
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      3D Vision: 3D Stories
      Tandy , Absolum , DJ Mael , Cat on Mushroom , Talamasca , Elixir , Wizzy Noise , D.J. Mael & Manitu , Absolum vs Nomad , and Deedrah
      Manufacturer: 3-D Vision
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD
      ASIN: B00080FSNG
      Washing Machine + Bonus Ep 2cd
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        Washing Machine + Bonus Ep 2cd
        Sonic Youth
        Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

        Pop RockPop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
        ASIN: B00000E1SM
        Release Date: 1996-11-21

        Album Description

        Limited edition of only 4,500 copies couplestheir 1995 studio album with a bonus CD single of four livetracks from France's Inter Radio. 2CDs, 14 tracks total:1)Becuz 2)Junkie's Promise 3)Saucer-like 4)Washing Machine5)Unwind 6)Little Trouble Girl 7)No Queen Blues 8)Panty Lies9)Skip Tracer 10)The Diamond SeaBonus CD single tracks: 1)Starfield Road 2)Eric's Trip 3)TheDiamond Sea 4)Teen Age Riot
        Aaltopiirri
        Average customer rating: Not rated
          Aaltopiirri
          Pan Sonic
          Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          GeneralGeneral | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
          IDMIDM | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
          ASIN: B0000DERE8
          Release Date: 2001-12-10
          Never Mind
          Average customer rating: Not rated
            Never Mind
            Sonic Youth
            Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

            GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
            ASIN: B0000DERPT
            Release Date: 2000-12-27

            Music Review:

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            3. The Art of Guido Cantelli, Vol.I [Box set]
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            5. The Big Trio Reprise
            6. The Golden Age of Light Music
            7. Three Partitas for Solo VIolin
            8. Three Sonatas for Solo Violin
            9. Transporting Transmittance
            10. Vignettes Performed by Bob Varga

            Music Review

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