Lovecraft Music
Progressive Art Music, Electroacoustic, Solo Piano
Lovecraft Music, LLC promotes cross-genre, sophisocated, cutting-edge, progressive art music, expanding the boundaries of electroacoustic music, jazz, academic music, and pop music to provide extraordinary performance experiences and recorded music.
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Kevin Michael Olson
Kevin Michael Olson is a performer and composer of music spanning the full spectrum from traditional classical pieces to cutting-edge electro-acoustic works. His compositions have been described as thought-provoking and evocative of the primal nature of man. He is currently actively composing and serves in an Adjunct Faculty position at Colorado State University, where he teaches Music and Technology. He also serves as the director of electroacoustic music for the Colorado-based ensemble and advocacy group Hyperprism Music.
His award-winning scores have been performed at such venues as the Annual Conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, the College Music Society Annual Conference, and the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference. Several works have been performed locally and at national conferences by artists such as award-winning tenor saxophonist, Peter Sommer. Olson was given the Spark Award for Electronic Music and was twice named a Composer Fellow for the University of Colorado’s New Opera Workshop. His compositions in both of these areas have been featured on Colorado Public Radio.
Olson earned his Master of Music degree in composition from the University of Colorado, where he studied under John Drumheller and Carter Pann. He also holds bachelor degrees in music composition and electrical engineering, as well as a Master’s degree in computer engineering. His work in engineering rewarded him with several patents in the field of computer graphics, while developing computer chips for systems such as the Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.
Olson is interested in using technology to explore and extend the artistry of music, rather than as a device in its own right. He has written computer and iPad apps and developed hardware to support the interaction of electronics with acoustic instruments. Several of his works utilize methods where the technology adapts to the live performer's artistic vision, instead of allowing the technology to dictate the performance. He loves the wonder and satisfaction of creating works that challenge the listener to experience music in a new way.
Laurel Lovecraft
Blue-eyed soulful piano jazz with a little bit of magic.
The universe is made of Strange & Charm!
--Laurel Lovecraft
What if Stevie Nicks learned piano from Bill Evans? Laurel Lovecraft writes blue-eyed soulful piano jazz with a little bit of magic. She has a Ph.D. in physics and unites these two sides with thoughtful passionate performance. (Strange and charm are two kinds of quarks, the building blocks of matter.)
Her first release, December Starry Night, has been described as "moody composition with some beautiful jazz flavours," by pianist, Mathias Kreft. December Starry Night “has inner movement and melodies like a classical piece,” says Dr. Silvana Santinelli, pianist of Duo Francois.
The day after recording Enchanted First Snow, it snowed here in Boulder, Colorado! How magical! This song follows snow’s emotions from small white flakes wafting gently through space like tiny falling stars to heavy wet blankets of snow falling suddenly off a roof! The single will be released before Thanksgiving, 2018, and will then be available everywhere.
Laurel Lovecraft has an eclectic background including 6 university degrees! She has a Ph.D. in laser physics, three science and engineering master’s degrees, and bachelor’s degrees in physics and jazz piano. Professionally, she has worked on atmospheric laser communication, data science, optical imagery through turbulence, and student learning in physics. She began piano lessons in third grade because she thought that all music was improvised and wanted to learn how. Imagine the collective synergy needed to perform a symphony!
She is heavily influenced by solo jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, whose virtuosic technique and soulful Gospel passages held her spell bound. She also resonates with the magical, powerful, female vibe of Stevie Nicks, reminding Lovecraft of her ancestor who was executed in the Salem Witch Trials in 1693 near Boston, MA.
Laurel Lovecraft wants to live in a world where science and magic can coexist. She inspires those who feel like they are different to embrace their weird, to find their voice and live their dreams!
Noise Star
Experimental Electroacoustic Music
NoiseStar is Kevin’s alter ego under which he explores the depths of experimental music. This can be anything from playing a self-contructed electronic music box, to improvising with an assortment of electronics and found percussion, to leading a chant at the Tank Center for Sonic Arts.