TIM STORY INFORMATION
Tim Story was born in 1957 in Philadelphia, PA, and graduated
magna cum laude from the University of Toledo in 1980. He
currently lives in the small river town of Maumee, Ohio, outside
of
Toledo, where he is also partner in a commercial recording studio,
Zeta Recording.
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Tim's intensely personal style as a pianist and synthesist developed
from years of experimentation in his home studio and a love of
composition, rather than formal training. Along with his
idiosyncratic, self-taught approach to the piano, Story saw the
great
potential of the new breed of electonic music instruments that
were evolving in the mid-70's. This affinity for synthesizers,
as well
as electric guitars, tape loops and kitchen utensils, is evident
in the
early recordings.
Tim's work has come to be known for its haunting elegance and
meticulous compositional detail. When writing and recording, he
spends months carefully working and refining the shape of each
composition until he achieves the desired emotional effect. His
seemingly simple pieces distill harmonic and melodic ideas that
are
actually quite complex.
"I like to work with a finite palette of sounds and keep paring
things down to a pure, though often ambiguous,
expression. Simplicity needn't mean simplemindedness. I think
of the deceptively simple, ironic pieces of Erik
Satie, or the lovely piano music of Debussy. The very best of
these pieces appear so effortless and perfect that
they seem like they've existed forever..."
" ...I guess a goal of mine is to get the listeners to put something
of themselves into the music. I want to prod the
listener to find his or her own feelings about a piece, even if
those feelings are sometimes uncomfortable. As
Charles Ives said, 'Beauty in music is too often confused with
something that lets the ears lie back in an easy
chair.' I like to think of good music as a sculpture or a Japanese
garden, where you can never experience the
whole from any one point. You must move through it, live with
it for a while, before it yields its secrets."
ABOUT TIM STORY AND DWIGHT ASHLEY
"These musicians have achieved a careful blend of melody, atmosphere
and mystery. An unusual an disquieting release, beyond ambient.
. . for those with a taste for something different." - Audion (UK) " . . . Story and Ashley collectively showcase fourteen tone poems
that alternate between exercise in dramatic tension and ruminative,
haunting shards of picaresque beauty. The manipulation of sounds
vary greatly, from echoed acoustic pianos, to shimmering tape
loops and discreet electronics often subtly altered, processed
or enhanced as they evoke their conflicting, shifting moods. .
. the two instrumentalists make stunning music of a perfect pair."
- i/e (USA) "This duo from Ohio has created a soundscape work that is among
the best we've heard at Marginal in a while. Ashley/Story are
able to swing from the sincerely beautiful to the haunting and
discordant without the cliches that most others use." - Marginal (Canada) "A Desperate Serenity is a superb work of innovative electronic
music. The 14 pieces oscillate between futurism and beauty. .
." - Sintetizando (Spain) "HHHHH" (out of 5). . . -Blitz (Portugal)
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