The Seattle Digital Orchestra

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Chasing the Wind

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Released: Jan 1, 2006

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Chasing the Wind
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Submerged Flight
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Electric Angel
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She By The Beach Stretch Mix
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General Info

Genre: Ambient / Breakbeat / Electronica
Location West Coast USA, West, US
Profile Views: 42622
Last Login: 7/29/2009
Member Since 9/18/2006
Website Coming Soon
Record Label Rescue Records
Type of Label Indie
Bio
The Seattle Digital Orchestra is the practical result of a filmmaker making music and is the end result of a journey from film, through abused technology, to rediscovery of actual music. ....In 1998 classically trained musician J.C. Sutherland moved from Seattle to Los Angeles to study film, in the process of scoring for his and other films, he rediscovered his love for music and began to immerse himself in the study of music technology and practical theory. However, knowledge unchecked is not always a good thing, "In 2003 I released a solo album that no one got, as far as sequencing and editing, I felt like it was a masterpiece. But looking back, as far as musicality and soul, it was a pretentious travesty." Sutherland continues, "I fell in love with the power of the technology, and songs turned into exercises on cramming stutter edits and dueling filters into all aspects while seeing how many modes I could use in a song. Unfortunately for the album, but fortunate for mankind, our souls are not in binary and I have come to realize that most good music is complex simplicity. The Seattle Digital Orchestra is the soulful reaction to my earlier work."....Combining classical elements with cinematic themes and throbbing beats takes the orchestra beyond the realm of experimental music into something that is infinitely listenable, "Unlike before I am not trying to reinvent the wheel, I am simply trying to refine it and make something meaningful. The studio allows for many complicated colors and varied sounds, but complex elements combining to make something simple are often the most beautiful.".... Check out SDO's debut release .. Before Third Stage.. available at the iTunes music store now. .. .... ......
Members
J.C. Sutherland and a lot of ones and zeroes.
Influences
Gustav Holst, Brian Eno, Jean Michel Jarre, Pink Floyd, Jan Hammer, The Who, Danny Elfman, Emerson Lake and Palmer, KMFDM, Tangerine Dream, Toto, Joy Division, Love and Rockets, BT, Paul Oakenfold, John Paul Jones, Butch Vig, Bob Rock, Bob Clearmountain, Beach Boys (Pet Sounds Album), The Moody Blues, Enigma, Klaus Shultz, Butch Vig, Kraftwerk, Enya, Bjork, Gary Numan, Hans Zimmer, William Orbit, Nine Inch Nails, John Serrie, Pale 3, Laibach, Deepsky, Summer Channel, Smack, MASQA, Dead Can Dance, The Chemical Brothers, Ashton, The Crystal Method, Fatboy Slim to name a very few.
Sounds Like
Bach if he learned how to use Logic and ProTools instead of learning how to play the Organ.