John Luther Adams  Select Discography  John Luther Adams The Far
Country  Did Alaska create John Luther Adams' music or did the
music create his Alaska?  In his 16' x 24' cabin-studio outside
Fairbanks, where Adams has worked for over two decades, the
vastness of Alaska has swept through the distant reaches of his
imagination and every corner of his compositions.  In turn, the
NEA and Rockefeller Foundation grantee—whose music Village Voice
critic and composer Kyle Gann describes as "beautiful,
shimmering, vast, luminous, ecstatic"—has used any means
necessary to communicate the power of the elemental forces he
experiences daily.  Adams' methods have included percussion
ensembles, Alaska Native voices, orchestral residencies, sound
and light installations, and elegant prose writing collected in
his book Winter Music. His music has been performed by Bang on a
Can, the California E.A.R. Unit, and Percussion Group
Cincinnati, among others.  Where Strange and Sacred Noise calls
from chaos, other compositions evok