This music was improvised. None of the music was edited to fit the images. The images were arranged to fit the sounds.
Of the many wonderful bass players I've worked with over the years none, to my ears, can play the open-form free stuff with the compsoitional sense of Doug Lofstrom. He is a master musician on many levels.
Bio: Composer and bassist Doug Lofstrom has been composing prolifically since the 1970's. and his diverse scores reflect his ongoing involvement in theater, dance, film and symphonic music. In the 1990's, he was composer-in-residence for the Metropolis Symphony Orchestra and during the 80's, musical director of Chicago's Free Street Theatre. His works have been performed by the St. Louis, Atlanta and Oregon Symphony Orchestras, and the Present Music and CUBE chamber ensembles.
His most recent endeavors include the score for Alakshaya, commissioned by the Natya Dance Theatre and a Concertino for Oboe and Orchestra, commissioned by the New Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mr. Lofstrom has composed several works for Midwest Ballet Theatre, and three works for the Evansville, IN "musictelling" group Tales and Scales, including The Arabian Nights, Just Beyond the Junkyard and Jabberwocky.
In 2001, Lofstrom formed The New Quartet, a versatile chamber ensemble which performs his original music and arrangements of modern classics, jazz and world music. He is currently on the music faculty of Columbia College in Chicago, IL.
Grant Strombeck and Doug Lofstrom at the Columbia College Auditorium during a CUBE ensenble performance of Doug's work.
