Event Horizon - Music

David Gerard Is A Musician And Composer Originally From New York City. He Has Been Recording For The Past 28 Years And Has Performed In The United States As Well As Overseas. He Considers Himself An "ambient Minimalist" - His Music Is Equally Informed By Such Legends As Klaus Schulze And Steve Roach As It Is By Steve Reich And John Cage. His First Electronic Outing "A Piece Of The Desert" Was Performed Back In The 80's At The Legendary Venue The Knitting Factory. He Took A Decade-Long Hiatus From Composing/recording Due To Health And Emotional Issues. Then In 1994 After Relocating To Boston He Met Local Producer/electronic Musician Jere Faison. Inspired By Faison's Spacey "ISO 999" CD He Began Writing And Recording Again. The Sessions Produced The Out-Of-Print Recording "Transcendental No.1" - Recorded On Analogue Synthesizers Direct To 24-Track Recording Console. Ten Years Later He Self-Produced And Commercially Released "Compositions" Comprised Of Pieces He Had Written In The Timespan Following His Last Project With Faison. To Date He Has Released 11 Solo Recordings As Well As A Trilogy Of Ensemble Recordings With Elysium Featuring Producer Rutger Holst And Bassist/syntheist Paul Christensen "First Light" 2007 "Found Noises & Sonic Detritus" 2009 And "as We Bask In The Warmth Of A Dying Star" 2015 . Gerard Recently Announced Via His Bandcamp Site That Elysium Will Return With A New Album "Sempiternal Fields" Which Will Likely See Release In Late 2020. His 2018 Release "Languor" Features Vocalist Clare Demer On Several Tracks And Has Placed The Sonic Emphasis More On Atmosphere And His Signature Ambient Piano Filigrees Though You Will Also Find Gerard's Ambient Guitar Figuring Prominently On The Title Track As Well As Pieces Like "An Evening's Solitude" And "Song Of Desert Elders". He Has Also Released A Collaboration With Fellow Ambient Musician Scott Lawlor Titled "The Silence That Surrounds Us" On Candy Lozier's Studio 4632 Label In October 2018. 2019 Saw The Release Of The Much-Acclaimed "The Anxious Beating Of My Tensile Heart" Which Was Featured In Its Entirety On The Watt From Pedro Show Hosted By Musician Mike Watt. DISCOGRAPHY Compositions 2004 Ambientism 2005 Bremsstrahlung 2006 Moog Opus No.1 2007 Filigree And Shadow 2008 Compositions Too 2008 Rubaiyat 2009 The Realm Of Knowing 2010 The Guitar Album 2010 Music From The Pillars Of The Saints 2011 Etheria 2011 Film Cues & Ambience Vol.1 2012 The Dream Chamber 2013 A Conspiracy Of Planets 2014 Homage 2015 Experimental Pop Art 2016 The Guitar Album EP 2017 Moog Opus Redux 2017 Languor 2018 The Anxious Beating Of My Tensile Heart 2019 read less