Laminar albums. Arranger: Laminar. Recording information: Synapta Studio, New York NY. ...

Laminar music CDs. The press release for the third album by Fred Szymanski's alter-ego Laminar, 2003's Nozzle, contains the following description: "Nozzle's starting point is the investigation of non-standard synthesis routines for creating music. As a whole, Nozzle is based on iterative functional ...

Laminar CD discography. This unusual two-disc set takes as its basis Iannis Xenakis' "Persepolis," the sound portion of a massive multimedia extravaganza staged by Xenakis in 1971 on behalf of the Shah of Iran. The original performance featured a laser light show, spotlights, children carrying torches, and 59 speakers positioned in an enormous natural amphitheater. Capturing even the music on disc is necessarily a difficult job and the mix here, done at the INA-GRM studios by Daniel Teruggi under the composer's supervision, is a bit more muted than the listener, used to Xenakis' brutal, often savage sound (and familiar with the recording of the same piece issued in 2000 on the Fractal label), might have reason to expect. It does well up nicely over the course of its one-plus hour, and the sounds themselves remain visceral, dramatic, and altogether spectacular, but there's an edge that seems to be missing. The second disc is a series of nine remixes of "Persepolis" by composers such as Otomo Yoshihide, Francisco López, and Merzbow. ...