The music composer known as Otto Lugger
has released his latest EP record, “Recombining.” The EP
comprises five original tracks for an approximate total listening
time of 20 minutes. It has been released on the United Studios
Multimedia Collective independent music label. Ambient, spacious and
thronged with subtle complexities interwoven throughout,
“Recombining” by Otto Lugger is a work of sonic art that
expresses the inborn connectivity of all things.
Otto Lugger is the stage name of
digital musician Luis Marques. For “Recombining,” Marques has
enlisted the instrumental talents of Ricardo Gordo. Gordo plays
Portugese guitar against and intertwined with variously textured
layers of electronic music composed by Marques. Marques calls the
process by which he braids Gordo's guitar with these digital patterns
'recombination;' hence, the title of the EP.
“Listeners will be transported from
the acoustic and traditional to the modern and electronic,” says
Marques of Otto Lugger. “This is the combination that I want them
to perceive, the mix between the old and the new. The [style of]
Portuguese guitar recorded in this EP is very popular and is used
nowadays in all kinds of genres besides Fado (a very traditional
genre in Portugal). I made these songs to mix this traditional
approach to the modern and electronic field, a new way to 'look' at
the Portuguese guitar.”
Otto Lugger's new EP also boasts cover
artwork by Soraia Claro. Her image makes a clear representation of
underlying patterns in material and organic space, much like the
songs of “Recombining,” themselves.
Otto Lugger cites as main artistic
influences Aes Dana, Alva Noto, Brian Eno, Diamond Versions, Ryoji
Ikeda, and Amon Tobin. Luis Marques learned piano first at the age of
nine, after which he trained in acoustic and bass guitar. He earned
his Electronic Music Degree in 2005 and his Interactive Music
Master's in 2009. He has developed software for real-time
performances, generative music composition, graphic environments for
electronic-music performance, and more. His current work for
Contemporary Music is on granular audio software, which aims to
create sounds in real time based on a sequencer. He last worked on
generating drum patterns using artificial-intelligence algorithms.
“Recombining” by Otto Lugger is
available online worldwide. Fans of ambient music and Portugese
guitar should get in early.
-S. McCauley
Lead Press Release Writer
www.MondoTunes.com
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