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• FOCUS ON: Michael C. Maguire

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• Label: Tzadik >>
• Genre: Classical/ Experimental

Michael C. Maguire is a Canadian based composer who has created a personal and quirky hybrid blending classical and popular culture.

"As a composer I have created a very personal post-modern hybrid which is a quirky synthesis of the historical and modern western tradition, as well as combining styles of popular music and the various primitive and high cultural traditions of world music.

I work primarily in my studios multi track electronic environment (up to 400 tracks), using the whole range of sampling and digital editing possibilities, then usually synchronizing virtuosic live players to the tape part via a click track and / or conductor. The finished musical structure consists of a rigid late 20th C. hierarchical, multi-layered construct, which is mathematically proportioned to reflect the philosophical / psychological thrust of each individual works raison detre.

I have also branched out into the popular idioms of pop music, T.V. and movie soundtracks, and have created elaborate scores for advertising.

Im fascinated by the crossbreeding of popular and classical culture, and I believe that only through the reevaluation of high art aesthetics in the light of popular cultures ubiquitous, formulaic infectiousness will creative art be saved from extinction in the 21st Century."