Stephen James Taylor Presents New Works on April 13-14, 2019

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Announcing a special LA event: “Music From The Other Wakanda” explores a unique sonic palette using multiple microtonal tunings blended with 3 dimensional african rhythms to weave a wild journey that will culminate with the LA premiere of the 40 minute piece, “Classical Music From A Parallel Dimension” that had its world premiere in San Francisco last November. Some of the musical concepts grew out of the score he wrote for The Black Panther animated series in 2009. Here he set out to write the classical music of Wakanda (the fictional African country from the Marvel movie/comic book, The Black Panther). In so doing he found myself asking questions like, “What instruments would they have?” , “What is the nature of their musical culture?” “What indigenous scales and tunings would they use?” And “How does their music tie in to their cosmology and spirituality?” Throughout the composition process these questions got answered in such a way that the music ended up becoming its own thing,… entering a parallel dimension of its own…hence the other Wakanda.

The Glendale Planetarium, with its 5.1 surround system is a perfect venue for this presentation as the music will be played back under the simulated night sky of their dome.

Ticket info below. All tickets must be purchased online in advance, and will not be sold at the door..

Hope you can make it.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/music-from-the-other-wakanda-tickets-57243929133

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Stephen James Taylor

Stephen James Taylor has had a full time career for the last 30 years writing music for film and TV as well as the concert hall. His style is an eclectic blend of many elements. He has been helping introduce Transcendent Tonality, (via the application of much of Ervin Wilson's material), into the lexicon of film music since the early 90's. He is just now getting around to releasing his first solo album in 2013.