Tim Story (composer)
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Tim Story | |
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| Born | 1957 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Genres | Electronic, Ambient, Neo-Classical, Minimalist |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, record producer |
| Instruments | Keyboards |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Labels | Windham Hill, Hearts of Space, Bureau B, Groenland, Curious Music, Nepenthe, Uniton, Narada |
| Website | www |
Timothy Glenn Story is an American composer, musician and producer. Story was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1957. He graduated from the University of Toledo (Ohio) in 1980.
Music career[edit]
From 1981–1986, Story recorded several albums of original electronic/acoustic music, including Threads (1981), In Another Country (1982), Untitled (1984), Three Feet From the Moon (1985), and Wheat and Rust (1987), the latter 4 released on the independent Norwegian label Uniton/Cicada. Untitled and Three Feet From the Moon were subsequently released in Japan on Polydor Records.
These releases eventually caught the attention of Will Ackerman, who released Glass Green (1987) on his Windham Hill Records label in the US. The following year, Story composed the original score for and coproduced the children’s album The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (with actress/narrator Glenn Close) for Rabbit Ears Productions, which was nominated for a Grammy award in the Best Album for Children category in 1989.[1] The subsequent sale of Windham Hill to BMG marked the end of the label’s support of many of Ackerman’s more ‘experimental’ artists (Story, minimalist composer Wim Mertens and others), though Ackerman remained a fan, and continued to invite Story to contribute tracks to Windham Hill’s popular compilation albums. Many of these pieces, and 5 original compositions written for the television documentary In Search of Angels (1994), were eventually compiled and released on Collected (2010).
The 1990s brought the first of three albums for the US-based Hearts of Space label, Beguiled (1991), The Perfect Flaw (1994), and Shadowplay (2001), which introduced classical instruments including cello (Martha Reikow) and oboe (Kimberly Bryden) to his compositions. Like compatriot Harold Budd, another composer of restrained, tonal music, Story's concise, evocative miniatures were sometimes included in the New Age genre, but the composer never felt a kinship with the term, a disconnect that became more apparent with the increasingly experimental nature of collaborations with Dwight Ashley; Persistence of Memory (2001) with Hans-Joachim Roedelius; and Story’s complex, predominantly electronic solo album Buzzle (2006). Instead, elements of musique concrete, electronica and the avant-garde were combining in interesting ways with the innovative sound design and minimalist restraint that had marked Story’s neoclassical ‘ambient chamber’ music.
Discography[edit]
- Studio albums
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| 1981 | Threads
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| 1981 | In Another Country
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| 1984 | Untitled
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| 1986 | Three Feet from the Moon
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| 1987 | Wheat and Rust
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| 1987 | Glass Green
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| 1988 | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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| 1991 | Beguiled
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| 1992 | A Desperate Serenity
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| 1994 | In Search of Angels
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| 1994 | The Perfect Flaw
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| 1996 | Abridged
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| 1997 | Drop
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| 2000 | Persistence of Memory
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| 2001 | Shadowplay
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| 2001 | Blue Tofu
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| 2002 | Lunz
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| 2004 | Lunz Reinterpretations
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| 2005 | Caravan
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| 2005 | Standing+Falling
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| 2006 | buzzle
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| 2008 | inlandish
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| 2008 | errata
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| 2010 | Collected
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| 2013 | Our Room
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| 2014 | Snowghost Pieces
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| 2014 | Lazy Arc
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| 2016 | The Roedelius Cells
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| 2017 | Familiar
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| 2019 | Smudges One: Virga
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| 2019 | Lunz 3
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| 2019 | Smudges 2: Silent Cycles
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| 2020 | Smudges 3: Isola
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- Tracks included on compilations
- "The Moors", Nightlands, Final Image (1987)
- "Of the Father's Love Begotten", A Winter's Solstice III, Windham Hill (1990)
- "The Seed", The Seed, CUE Records (1992)
- "Gymnopedie 1", The Impressionists, Windham Hill (1992)
- "Asleep the Snow Came Flying", A Winter's Solstice IV, Windham Hill (1993 WH)
- "Theme from In Search of Angels", In Search of Angels, Windham Hill (1994)
- "Angel of the Elegies", In Search of Angels, Windham Hill (1994)
- "Voices in the Liquid Air", In Search of Angels, Windham Hill (1994)
- "Angelos", In Search of Angels, Windham Hill (1994)
- "Woman at the Well", In Search of Angels, Windham Hill (1994)
- "Siciliano", The Bach Variations, Windham Hill (1994)
- "The Death of Ase", The Romantics, Windham Hill (1995)
- "Adagio" from Serenade 10 in B-flat, A Different Mozart, Imaginary Road (1996)
- "In This Small Spot", Windham Hill Records Piano Sampler, Windham Hill (1997)
- "The Earth Lay White", On A Winter's Night, Imaginary Road (1997)
- "In the Winter's Pale", A Winter's Solstice VI, Windham Hill (1997)
- "The Silver Swan", A Midsummer Night's Dream, Windham Hill (1998)
- "Caranna", Thanksgiving, Windham Hill (1998)
- "When Comes December", A Winter's Solstice Silver Anniversary Edition, Windham Hill (2001)
- "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear", A Windham Hill Christmas, Windham Hill (2002)
- "Largo", Adagio, Windham Hill (2003)
- "Sanctus", Prayer, Windham Hill (2003)
- "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", A Windham Hill Christmas II, Windham Hill (2003)
- "The Holly and the Ivy", I'll Be Home For Christmas, Windham Hill (2004)
- "The First Noel/What Is This Fragrance?", Christmas Eve, Windham Hill (2005)
- "Squib" & "Last Day", (Moebius/Story/Leidecker), Record Store Day Limited Edition, bureau b (2015)
References[edit]
- ↑ "Tim Story Grammy Page"". grammy.com. 19 November 2019.
External links[edit]
- Tim Story – Home Page
- Tim Story discography at Discogs
- Curious Music - Tim Story page
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