Most artists are content to play the notes, but there's a handful of composers and musicians who work at the level of sound itself, turning meaning, finding nuance, charting new hitherto unheard directions in music through a contemplation of the meaning of sound itself. In a series of five non-narrative features, four composers and one music movement grapple with sound from its spiritual to its theoretical dimensions. The artists include John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Brian Eno, Keith Jarrett and in a Minimalist Meditation, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, LaMonte Young and John Adams.

In episode 4, we hear from piano iconoclast Keith Jarrett. In the 1970s the piano and Keith Jarrett were synonymous. His
solo piano albums like the Koln Concerts established his reputation for free-form, melodic improvisational flights. Since then he's recorded with orchestras, clavichords, his Standards Trio, and even a CD of over-dubbed impressions for flutes and hand drums called "Spirit." Here, Keith Jarrett reveals a music vision based in the inner vibrations of sound.

Thoughts in Sound is produced in three formats: a series of five five-minute, stand-alone features, a half-hour documentary, and an hour-long documentary that contains a companion half-hour of the artists' music to illustrate their words. Hide full description

Most artists are content to play the notes, but there's a handful of composers and musicians who work at the level of sound itself, turning meaning, finding nuance, charting new hitherto unheard directions in music through a contemplation of the meaning of sound itself. In a series of five non-narrative features, four composers and one music movement grapple with sound from its spiritual to its theoretical dimensions. The artists include John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Brian Eno, Keith Jarrett and in a Minimalist Meditation, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, LaMonte Young and John Adams. In episode 4, we hear from piano...
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