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Arco 71

from Arco 71 by Aaron Kerr

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Whenever I think about any songs on this album, I think about Franz Kamin. Franz was a fellow composer who lived close to me and who I visited often. Franz died in a car crash several years after this album came out and I was fortunate to get his opinion on it before he died. Franz was extremely stubborn and sometimes difficult to be around. Normally, you kind of want to avoid these people, but Franz was different in a couple of ways. One, he was genuinely interested in helping people. Franz had the amazing ability to quickly identify exactly what someone needed and would work hard to find a solution. One time I asked him for some 20th century composers to listen to, expecting a short list. After several months, he asked me to come over to his apartment, where he gave me a 4 hour lecture on the history of music, with videos and notes. He also said that I was a minimalist composer, and wanted me to understand the history and meaning of minimalist music. He somehow knew that ambient music was my calling, and wanted me to see the value in it, which is something that no one had ever done before. Secondly, Franz was usually right about what he said (I do mean "usually" because some things were just too ridiculous). He would sometimes get into trouble for offending people, but he was not purposefully mean. He said things that needed to be said that no one else was saying. After "Arco 71" came out, I gave Franz a copy and was interested in what he might have to say about it. I was really proud of my album, and wanted his approval in a big way. He said, "Aaron, this is a good album, but this isn't composing." Aghast, I made some feeble attempt to defend what I thought was the next big thing in composition. Only much later was I able to accept Franz' words as the truth: I made an album of some fleshed out cello parts, but real composing it was not. I'm not upset with what I created because it was the conduit for bigger things to come, but Franz called it early, before anyone else. Franz was a rare breed. He made the world a better place in his own way, despite how difficult that could be.

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from Arco 71, released August 7, 2013
Aaron Kerr--cello

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Emperor Penguin Records began in 2003 in St. Paul, MN and later moved to Milwaukee, WI in 2015. The label is run by musician/producer Tyson Allison. EPR enlists and caters to singer/songwriters, introverts, experimental weirdos, bookish people, and crafters that paint pictures with words and toy with your emotions on a well-placed chord. Thank you for your interest! ... more

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