Orchestra Underground: A-V (as in Audio-Visual) is an exploration of some of the wonderful possibilities found when video artists join the orchestra. This album contains three collaborative works by as many composers and videographers. Each is an integrated whole—the impact of the audio-visual experience being much more than the sum of its parts. As unified as the works are individually, the collection is stunning in the range of themes, sounds and aesthetics they offer. Each of the three pieces was premiered by American Composers Orchestra as part of Orchestra Underground. This concert series, founded in 1994, seeks to re-invent and re-imagine the orchestra with unusual instruments, eclectic influences, new technologies, important new compositional voices and the kind of interdisciplinary collaborations seen and heard in this A-V album. The works here are just a sample of the many new video/orchestra pairings born of Orchestra Underground in its first decade—and are released here to celebrate this milestone.

Full program notes: http://www.americancomposers.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/AV-Album-Liner-Notes.pdf