Built with the aim of offering a sonic resource for comfort and calming, composer Danny Clay and The Living Earth Show created Music for Hard Times: an experimental new age album and written score of composed “calming strategies.”
Music for Hard Times exists as a work of experimental music in the truest sense, in that it was created to answer a fundamental research question: “is it possible for us to use the tools of classical art music to make people feel better?”
Volume 2 was recorded by The Living Earth Show, Danny Clay, and young musicians from the San Francisco Girls Chorus (led by Valérie Sainte-Agathe) and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (led by Edwin Outwater) in 2021.
It’s certainly experimental in nature, it’s playful layers of vocals creating some interesting textures. In a way it reminds me of work by Berio, such as A-Ronne…