Biography
24 May 1936, Los Angeles, California, USA. Pianist and ambient/new age composer Budd was already married with two small children when he gained a masters degree in musical composition, which ensured employment in the composition faculty of the California Institute of the Arts. At the expense of rhythm, his sonic experiments on the Californian avant garde scene betrayed much of the hypnotic quality of Indian classical music in that single moods were investigated undynamically and often at considerable length. Budd left the Institute in 1976 and signed a recording contract with Brian Eno’s Obscure label (Eno had dedicated ‘Through Hollow Lands’ from 1977’s Before And After Science to Budd). Following the release of his debut The Pavilion Of Dreams, Budd collaborated with Eno on the pioneering Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror and, four years later, The Pearl. Budd’s most conspicuous artistic tangent, however, was The Moon And The Melodies,...
Read the Full Biography of Harold Budd
|
OLDIES.com on
|
