Michael Stearns - Lyra Sound Constellation (1983)

[@3dfreak2000]

I was looking for this album since I saw a Michael Stearns interview on a TV show during the 80s, where he shows the gigantic Lyra instrument. The album "Planetary Unfolding" was introduced to me by a friend during my college time, Since then, I have been hooked with his music.

[@TheDejael]

Really awesome, amazing music made with the Lyra Sound Constellation, one musical instrument which takes up an entire room! It sounds like digital synthesizer keyboards striking power chords, but it is done by sequencing the chord wires of the Lyra which are anchored on both sides at different angle points in the room.

[@freeform83]

My favorite Ambient album is probably Tangerine Dream's Zeit (1972). But as much as I appreciate the turn TD took toward a more sequencer-based sound in the mid-'70s, I think they lost some of the artistic potential apparent in Zeit. I think it took a few years for ambient or proto-ambient composers to pick back up where early TD left off, but Michael Stearns is one of those artists. This album explores the cosmic promise of a Zeit-type sound at a time when TD themselves had long since abandoned it.

[@rashidabdelghafur5378]

This is it..."the sound."

[@TheDejael]

The closest thing to this sound is in Jerry Goldsmith's remarkable score to STAR TREK-The Motion PIcture (1979) in the Klingon encounter scene with V'ger. Goldsmith did it with a digital synthesizer hitting power chords.

[@johngibbs799]

Outright religious!!!