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ORIGIN
The project "Spacecraft" was born in 1996 after a listening session
of NASA image and sound mappings from the Voyager space probe.
Tony Gerber and John Rose were so inspired by these recordings,
they programmed a new palette of sounds for their synthesizers,
triggered from these listening sessions. Next, they called on
the talents of Chris Blazen and Diane Timmons to join them for
several recording sessions that emerged as the self-titled CD,
"Spacecraft". Spacecraft's music is improvisational in nature.
Each concert they do is different. Gerber, Rose and Timmons are
the core members of the project. However, from time to time you
will see different musician's collaborating with this space trio.
They were recently joined by Giles Reaves for a live planetarium
show in Kentucky. Their upcoming album, “Earthtime Tapestry” includes
the addition of Reaves on synthesizers.
Spacecraft was digitally edited and mastered by Tommy Dorsey of Masterfonics in Nashville, Tennessee. The Spacecraft project
is produced by Tony Gerber. The artwork for the project is created
and designed by Gerber.
SPACECRAFT DISCOGRAPHY:
1997 - Spacecraft: "Spacecraft" (Lektronic Soundscapes LS97009 CD)
1998 - Spacecraft: "Hummel: Live" (Lektronic Soundscapes LS-1012 CD)
1999 - Spacecraft: "Earthtime Tapestry" w/Giles Reaves (released August 4th, 1999 on Lektronic Soundscapes)
1999 - Spacecraft: "Kaleida Dreams" w/Giles Reaves (released November 25th, 1999 on SFM Collective
at MP3.com)
2000 - Spacecraft: "20th Century Mix (Best of)" (released January 12th, 2000 on SFM Collective at MP3.com)
2001 - Spacecraft: "Musical Meditation for World Peace" (released January 1st, 2001 on SpaceForMusic.com Records via
mp3.com)
2001 - Spacecraft: "Summer Town" (release Feb. 15th on SpaceForMusic.com Records SFM12001)
2001 - Spacecraft: "Cybersphere" (to be released May 19th on SpaceForMusic.com Records SFM22001)
TONY GERBER
Tony Gerber has been writing music and creating art, self-taught
in the beginning, since the age of 7. The guitar was his initial
instrument for musical learning and oil paint for his early art
work. His influences include Beethoven, Beatles, Tangerine Dream,
Terje Rypdal, Vangelis, Klaus Schulze, Stephen Stills, Jean Michael
Jarre, Return To Forever, Phil Keagy, Genesis, Elton John, Tomita,
Salvador Dali,Carlos Montoya, Jean Luc Ponty and academic experimental
electronic music. He built his first synthesizer in 1975, started
the band “Scarlet Sage” in 1979, released “Cosmic Flight” w/ William
Linton and Mason Stevens, as heard on Hearts of Space in 1986
and since 1994 has been on the artist roster of Lektronic Soundscapes.
He continues to explore new musical territories and performance.
Over the past 18 years, Gerber has operated his own art gallery
displaying one of Nashville’s first video art exhibitions, created
CAD 3D animations and renderings for an engineering firm, set-up
one of music row’s first all MIDI recording studios, started a
multi-media business and recording studio utilizing the Mac computer,
curated and exhibited Middle Tennessee's first all computer art
exhibit at Cheekwood Fine Art Museum, and produced several multi-media
performances as a venue for his own musical and visual compositions.
Gerber has collaborated and worked with Vanderbilt University,
Apple Computer and other companies offering creative expertise
in the areas of technology, music, art and performance. He is
regarded as an inspiring and visionary artist/composer by the
Nashville Community.
Gerber’s most recent musical projects include, "the Nappanees"
(acoustic), "Spacecraft", and a new solo album entitled, "Altamira"
to be released in 1999. He has been designing websites for the
Internet, producing interface design for custom software and CD-Rom
utilizing his abilities in the areas of music, video, animation
and graphic design. He produced the Space for Music shows of the
eighties and has resurrected Space for Music as a collective on
the Internet (spaceformusic.com).
“The act of creativity is indeed one of the supreme satisfactions
and purposes of life. Creativity is the expression of the spirit
and soul. The process we go through to complete an idea to a presentable
form harbors a never ending learning and healing environment.”
TONY GERBER SOLO DISCOGRAPHY:
1986 - Teleworks (Electronic Instrumental)
1988 - Clearly Opaque (Electronic Instrumental, Rereleased in October, 1999 on MP3.com)
1990 - Native Spirit (Electronic Instrumental, ltd. edition)
1992 - Aural Overview (Electronic Instrumental, ltd. edition)
1993 - Travelers (w/ John Rose, Electronic Instrumental/vocal, 1993)
1994 - Blue Western Sky (Electronic Instrumental, 1994 on Lektronic Soundscapes LS94006
CD)
1997 - Soundscape Gallery series one Compilation (Space Music on Lektronic Soundscapes)
1997 - SLOTH 7" w/Chris Blazen and John Sharp on Genderless Kibbutz Records
- released August 20, 1997
1998 - COMPILATION CD w/Chris Blazen and John Sharp on Genderless Kibbutz Records.
1998 - Legend Yet To Be Told (Tony Gerber and the Nappanees, ltd. edition)
1998 - Songs from 1998 (Acoustic Strings/Vocals, ltd. edition)t
1999 - Guitarscapes (Released September, 1999 on MP3.com)td
1999 - Altamira (Released September, 1999 on MP3.com)t
2000 - SLOTH (Released fall, 2000 on SpaceForMusic.com Records via MP3.com)t
2000 - Retrospective 1986-2000 BEST OF (Released Fall, 2000 on SpaceForMusic.com Records via MP3.com)tdt
2001 - ICBACA with Tunde Odunlade (Released March, 2001 on SpaceForMusic.com
Records via MP3.com)tdtdtd
with John Rose
2001 - Airwaves (Electronic Instrumental, Released in January 2000 on MP3.com)
with William Linton and Mason Stevens
1986 - Cosmic Flight (Electronic Instrumental, Emerald Castle Productions Rereleased
in October, 1999 on MP3.com)
with SPACECRAFT
1997 - Spacecraft: "Spacecraft" (Lektronic Soundscapes LS97009 CD)
1998 - Spacecraft: "Hummel: Live" (Lektronic Soundscapes LS-1012 CD)
1999 - Spacecraft: "Earthtime Tapestry" w/Giles Reaves (released August 4th, 1999 on Lektronic Soundscapes)
1999 - Spacecraft: "Kaleida Dreams" w/Giles Reaves (released November 25th, 1999 on SFM Collective
at MP3.com)
2000 - Spacecraft: "20th Century Mix (Best of)" (released January 12th, 2000 on SFM Collective at MP3.com)
2001 - Spacecraft: "Musical Meditation for World Peace" (released January 1st, 2001 on SpaceForMusic.com Records via
mp3.com)
2001 - Spacecraft: "Summer Town" (release Feb. 15th on SpaceForMusic.com Records SFM12001)
2001 - Spacecraft: "Cybersphere" (to be released May 19th on SpaceForMusic.com Records SFM22001)
JOHN ROSE
John Rose is a composer working out of Lexington, Kentucky. Rose
and Gerber have worked together for several years doing live radio,
outdoor festivals, art openings and planetarium performances.
John has been a pioneer of electronic music in Kentucky since
the 1970s. He continues to work on solo recordings and works with
other artists throughout the south. He is a music teacher when
he is not performing or working with other bands.
John Rose’s music is created primarily from his own experiences,
what he calls “life’s soundtracks”. He utilizes elements from
his diverse musical background, which includes early music (especially
the Medieval and pre-Renaissance era), Baroque (owing to his direct
musical lineage to J.S. Bach through oral teaching tradition),
Middle Eastern Music, Gregorian chant, traditional Celtic and
Appalachian music, and experimental electronic music.
Music and musicians who are of interest to John Rose are J.S.
Bach, Arvo Part, Tangerine Dream, Dead Can Dance, Gregorian chant,
Cantigas de Santa Maria, Alan Stivell, Morton Subotonic, John
Jacob Niles, Debussy, and Chopin. He considers Nature and Silence
to be the foundation of all music.
John’s music is timeless and pensive, interwoven with images of
nature, expressive rhythms, deep space pulses, and industrial
ambience. Other compositions contain intricate piano passages
dancing across waves of geometric ostinatos.
“Music is structured in silence and has its foundations in the
rhythm of nature, out of which springs the language of humanity
and reflections of the energy of life. I wish to express this
to the listener through my music.”
JOHN ROSE SOLO DISCOGRAPHY (cassette format):
Evening Thoughts (90min)
I Could See Them In The Distance (60min)
Rainsongs--also available on LP
Oceans of Contradiction (90min)
Reflections (90min)
Chemical Dreams (90min)
Night Songs (90min)
Meditations (90min)
Zeitreisen (90min)
The Natural World (90min), a recording of live music from the woodland art fair
in lexington
Diane Timmons Live at ArtsPlace in Lexington.
CD Format
Cosmogenesis (To be released April, 2001 on SpaceForMusic.com Records)
with Tony Gerber
2001 - Airwaves (Electronic Instrumental, Released in January 2000 on MP3.com)
with SPACECRAFT
1997 - Spacecraft: "Spacecraft" (Lektronic Soundscapes LS97009 CD)
1998 - Spacecraft: "Hummel: Live" (Lektronic Soundscapes LS-1012 CD)
1999 - Spacecraft: "Earthtime Tapestry" w/Giles Reaves (released August 4th, 1999 on Lektronic Soundscapes)
1999 - Spacecraft: "Kaleida Dreams" w/Giles Reaves (released November 25th, 1999 on SFM Collective
at MP3.com)
2000 - Spacecraft: "20th Century Mix (Best of)" (released January 12th, 2000 on SFM Collective at MP3.com)
2001 - Spacecraft: "Musical Meditation for World Peace" (released January 1st, 2001 on SpaceForMusic.com Records via
mp3.com)
2001 - Spacecraft: "Summer Town" (release Feb. 15th on SpaceForMusic.com Records SFM12001)
2001 - Spacecraft: "Cybersphere" (to be released May 19th on SpaceForMusic.com Records SFM22001)
DIANE TIMMONS
Diane has been a keyboard musician her whole life.At age 4, she
asked for piano lessons, and performing has been a way of life
ever since; her first solo stage appearance was in first grade.
She also recieved early training in voice, which was also an introduction
to meditation and stilling the mind. In college, she continued
her vocal study and choral singing while obtaining a degree in
Linguistics from the University of Kentucky. During that time
she sang with the small elite vocal ensemble New Voices, and was
a soloist with numerous university productions, including operatic,
musical theater, and solos with an orchestra. Diane performed
at Renaissance fairs with Mountain musician Carla Gover(of Berea,
Kentucky) during the summers while in college, and they continue
to collaborate. She is called upon to do studio work of various
types, but has always preferred live performance.
"Space music allows for even more live expression in performance
because so little of it is pre-ordained. The "space" in the music
is the doorway for a deeper soul exchange between the performer
and the audience. And it is the
job of the performer to create enough space inside, enough receptivity,
for something to come through unencumbered by the various thoughts
one might have."
Even more than her voice, Diane has always been known for her
ear. In her choral music experiences, she was given difficult
inner parts to sing because she could find her way through the
most challenging of harmonies with ease. This required not only
a good sense of pitch but a "feel" for the subtle overtones of
harmonic matching. She now puts her ear to work designing new
sounds and composing on-the-fly with Spacecraft. Diane has a deep
and abiding love of nature, and has for many years pursued natural
healing as a strong interest. She gardens organically and gave
birth to both of her children at home.
"Performing with Spacecraft allows me to express the way I feel
about nature. We compose and improvise using nature's rhythms,
sometimes slow, evolving almost imperceptively, at other times
changing without warning into something dramatic and terrifying,
yet again emerging with innocent fragility. Never the same twice,
nature is still a presence to count on, the rhythms continuing
and evolving. "
DISCOGRAPHY:
The Natural World (90min), a recording of live music from the woodland art fair
in lexington
Diane Timmons Live at ArtsPlace in Lexington.
with SPACECRAFT
1997 - Spacecraft: "Spacecraft" (Lektronic Soundscapes LS97009 CD)
1998 - Spacecraft: "Hummel: Live" (Lektronic Soundscapes LS-1012 CD)
1999 - Spacecraft: "Earthtime Tapestry" w/Giles Reaves (released August 4th, 1999 on Lektronic Soundscapes)
1999 - Spacecraft: "Kaleida Dreams" w/Giles Reaves (released November 25th, 1999 on SFM Collective
at MP3.com)
2000 - Spacecraft: "20th Century Mix (Best of)" (released January 12th, 2000 on SFM Collective at MP3.com)
2001 - Spacecraft: "Musical Meditation for World Peace" (released January 1st, 2001 on SpaceForMusic.com Records via
mp3.com)
2001 - Spacecraft: "Summer Town" (release Feb. 15th on SpaceForMusic.com Records SFM12001)
2001 - Spacecraft: "Cybersphere" (to be released May 19th on SpaceForMusic.com Records SFM22001) |
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