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MUSINGS AND RUMINATIONS .....

"As you approach the truth, your solitude will increase....."

Michel Houellebecq

"Even the articulate or brutal sounds of the globe must be all so many languages
and ciphers that all have their corresponding keys - have their own grammar and syntax ;
and thus the least things in the universe must be secret mirrors to the greatest."

Thomas De Quincey


"After three thousand years of explosion, by means of fragmentary and mechanical
technologies, the Western world is imploding. During the mechanical ages we had
extended our bodies in space. Today, after more than a century of electric
technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global
embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned.
Rapidly, we approach the final phase of the extensions of man - the technological
simulation of consciousness, when the creative process of knowing will be
collectively and corporately extended to the whole of human society, much as we
have already extended our senses and our nerves by the various media."

Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media (1964)


"When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem to leave a
Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter - to quit paradise for earth - heaven for hell !
Taste the hashish, guest of mine - taste the hashish !"

Alexander Dumas, 'The Count of Monte Cristo', 1844


"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench,
  a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free,
  and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."

Hunter S. Thompson


"On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums,
  the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics."

Richard Feynman (Messenger Lectures at Cornell University 1964-5)


ANNOUNCEMENTS :::::
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August 2010: Jupiter Curve, Antelope, Golden, Musik for 10 Pianos and Concord now on BandCamp

<a href="http://jamesgordonanderson.bandcamp.com/track/jupiter-curve">Jupiter Curve by James Gordon Anderson</a>

<a href="http://jamesgordonanderson.bandcamp.com/album/antelope">Antelope (edit) by James Gordon Anderson</a>

<a href="http://jamesgordonanderson.bandcamp.com/album/musik-for-10-pianos">Musik for 10 Pianos by James Gordon Anderson</a>

<a href="http://jamesgordonanderson.bandcamp.com/album/golden-online-version">Dopamine by James Gordon Anderson</a>

<a href="http://jamesgordonanderson.bandcamp.com/album/concord">Concord 1 by James Gordon Anderson</a>





July 2010 ::::: Stairs To The Midnight City, Vol.1 CDs and DVD Audio Discs NOW AVAILABLE ::::
CDs and DVD Audio Discs are now available from the CD+DVD Store



June 13 2010 ::::: Stairs To The Midnight City, Volume One LIVE ON BANDCAMP ::::
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All seven albums from volume one are now live on BandCamp :::::

Album 1
<a href="http://jamesgordonanderson.bandcamp.com/album/stairs-to-the-midnight-city-volume-one-album-one">Chorale V1 by James Gordon Anderson</a>

Album 2
<a href="http://jamesgordonanderson.bandcamp.com/album/stairs-to-the-midnight-city-volume-one-album-two">Alvarado - Ambient Cut by James Gordon Anderson</a>

Album 3
<a href="http://jamesgordonanderson.bandcamp.com/album/stairs-to-the-midnight-city-volume-one-album-three">Composites by James Gordon Anderson</a>

Album 4
<a href="http://jamesgordonanderson.bandcamp.com/album/stairs-to-the-midnight-city-volume-one-album-four">Symmetrical Study by James Gordon Anderson</a>

Album 5
<a href="http://jamesgordonanderson.bandcamp.com/album/stairs-to-the-midnight-city-volume-one-album-five">The Evil Has Landed by James Gordon Anderson</a>

Album 6
<a href="http://jamesgordonanderson.bandcamp.com/album/stairs-to-the-midnight-city-volume-one-album-six">Concord Redux 1 - Space Glacier Mix by James Gordon Anderson</a>

Album 7
<a href="http://jamesgordonanderson.bandcamp.com/album/stairs-to-the-midnight-city-volume-one-album-seven">Signals by James Gordon Anderson</a>

LISTEN to complete tracks and albums, EMBED individual tracks and albums on any media platform
DOWNLOAD in a variety of formats.





MAY 20th 2010 ::::: Stairs To The Midnight City, Volume One NOW LIVE ON ITUNES ::::
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Direct Links to individual albums :::::
ALBUM ONE
ALBUM TWO
ALBUM THREE
ALBUM FOUR
ALBUM FIVE
ALBUM SIX
ALBUM SEVEN



MAY 12th 2010 ::::: Stairs To The Midnight City, Volume One - CD+DVD PRE-ORDERING NOW AVAILABLE:::::
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CDs + DVDs are now available to pre-order from the CD+DVD Store
Orders will be shipped late June / early July. All customers receive immediate download access to their music as high-quality MP3 Albums.
CLICK HERE to PRE-ORDER from the CD+DVD Store :::::



APRIL 15th 2010 ::::: Stairs To The Midnight City MP3 Albums NOW AVAILABLE :::::
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Volume One's seven albums are now available as MP3 Albums from the DigitalStore .
Albums contain 320kbps audio encoded directly from 24-bit studio masters, cover artwork jpegs, and tracklistings.




March 2010 ::::: STAIRS TO THE MIDNIGHT CITY, VOLUME ONE :::::
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Mind-bending musical travelogue and encyclopaedic aesthetic compendium,
STAIRS TO THE MIDNIGHT CITY is a large scale musical production encompassing
the spectrum of contemporary music practice.

VOLUME ONE of a projected five volume series is nearing completion -
and will be released in gradual stages online and on CD and DVD throughout 2010.

Further Volumes from the entire cycle will be released in the future.

Online stockists of Vol.1 will include iTunes, Bandcamp, and others.
Individual CDs from Vol.1 and a special CD+DVD audio boxed set will be available from mid-year onwards
from selected international retailers. Release schedules and project updates will be made available soon.

Individual tracks can be purchased and downloaded right now from the Digitalstore at this site,
and from the STTMC project site, in three high-quality formats - MP4, CD-quality WAV,
and pristine 24-bit DVD-audio quality WAV.

Stay tuned for further project updates......








MP3 excerpts to preview and download from 'Stairs to the Midnight City'
Cick on titles to listen ::::::::::


February and March 2010 :::::
    Collage 1 - Magellan Frieze Fragment
    Collage 1 - Morphia Assemblage
    the Sea - Collage Mix
    Diaphon / Little Fissures
    Cordoba Spectra
    Circuit of Venus
    Faultlines - Rhythm Mix
    Faultlines - Instrumental
    Collage 4 - Kingdom of The Middle Image
    Signals
    Collage 6 - Spectres of Angelus
    Collage 7 - Elysium Adapted
    Concord Redux Collage
    Encyclopaedias of Space
    Cordons
    Screensaver
    Collage 3 - Star Song Redux
    The Evil Has Landed

January 2010 :::::
    Navajo Star Song
    Data Is My Image - Mix2
    Descent
    The Dissolving Page
    Epiphany of the Tri State Waves

December 2009 :::::
    Alvarado - Ambient Cut
    Air Reliquary

November 2009 :::::
    Chorale V1
    Chorale V2 - Filter Mix

September 2009 :::::
    Composites 2 - Polychoral Emblems
    Temple of Five Suns
    Alvarado 2
    Saturn Dust Pilot


August 2009 :::::
    Fragment
    Simulacra
    New Flora - SunGods Mix

July 2009 :::::
    the Sea

May 2009 :::::
    Aural Mats in the Hyperflora

January 2009 :::::
    Concord Redux 1 - Space Glacier Mix
    Concord Redux 2 - Byzantium Mix
    Composites
    Overture - Time Tunnel Cut

February - September 2008 :::::
    Elevator (Hemispheres Mix)
    Zone7
    Polyhedrals
    Overture - Dub Mix
    Setting Sail
    In the Whispering Leaves 1
    Treeforms
    Desert Matrix
    Symmetrical Study
    Materials
    Materials / Remix
    In the Whispering Leaves 2
    Geto Spektar (Merge Mix)
    Elevator - MetaTerminal Cut
    Spiral
    Spiral 2

November 2008 excerpts ::::::::::
    Tape Crusader 1 (Scorched Earth Policy Mix)


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