Red Sun Soundroom
Peter Koniuto is an American creative recordist and composer living in upstate New York. The Red Sun Soundroom is his workshop - the place where he creates his own music and helps others bring their music to life. Koniuto is thrilled to have watched the Red Sun Soundroom grow into a scene of regular talent and new faces alike.
Koniuto as part of Pseudophone: Reach now available for free download at Negative Sound Institute
Pseudophone strives to craft cinematic pieces that "tell a place"—a space so full of character a story will unfold there almost entirely by itself. Every tool in the Psueophophone studios—whether stringed or controlled by faders, whether banged on or dialed in—is musical. In Pseudophone's world every sound is sacred, and any sound can be composted. What is more sacred than a story?
Koniuto on Stasisfield:
New York-based composer Peter Koniuto's piece is an expansive meditation on exploration and the vastness of physical and acoustic space. A crafter of systems-based music, Koniuto here sets a variety of quiet sounds in motion - piano, radio transmissions, percussion, drones - and gently nudges them into ever-changing relationships, like tiny objects floating in zero gravity. Adrift in repetition, its subtle, sometimes sudden changes create an atmosphere of - dare it be said - "Eno-esque" serenity.
Peter Koniuto is a creative recordist, composer, and the founder of the Red Sun Soundroom, a project studio in upstate New York.
He enjoys helping others bring their music to life in the Soundroom and is currently involved in several musical collaborations.
As a solo composer, Koniuto focuses mostly on electroacoustic music and has a special interest in octophonic (8-channel) installations as well as cinematic scoring.
Noted compositions include Fata Morgana, which was composed for the RainWave Project and had its concert world premiere at the Film Theatre Orion in Helsinki; Past Andromeda, an installation inspired by a Vermont planetarium and premiered at the Annual Music Beyond Performance Concert at the University of the Pacific's Conservatory of Music; and Soluna, which was written for the Illuminations Festival at City Hall in Somerville, Massachusetts.
"The composer guides us in our perception of sound and how we let it into our lives," he says. "Music presents a multitude of angles from which to hear sound, giving us new ways to listen. My method of composing involves taking groups of sounds – some long-known and familiar, others newly discovered – and presenting them in a way that allows the listener to participate, to play an integral role in the imagining."
Peter Koniuto remains an avid percussionist and is the creator and host of regular Listening Salons. He is a member of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, the American Society for Acoustic Ecology, and the Acoustic Ecology Institute.
Who I'd like to meet:
...which should read: "WHOM I'd like to meet."
Please be so kind to visit my profile and check out my new video (only one in profile) - "Great Gig In The Sky" in memory of its composer Richard Wright. Please tell a pair of words about this solo and playing. You words are very very important to me!
Season's Greetings ! I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ! My very best wishes with two new titles on line on my site, "Voici comment" and "Sonnet". I hope you'll enjoy them !
Just dropping by to say "hello". Hope all is well. Guess I'll be seeing you soon. Looking forward to it. I've been collecting lots of coal to stuff in your stocking this year. You gonna make out like a bandit this year, bro!
Hi Peter , thanks very much for your comment,and nice to meet you. We estimate your interest for our music. we'd love if brian eno could listen our golden hours cover...maybe someday. Fantastic sounds from Pseudophone ep!
