John Luther Adams

An Atlas of Deep Time
2024

Waves and Particles
2024

Darkness and Scattered Light
2023

interviews

“I Just Listened to Everything I Could Lay My Ears On”

The Passion of the Weiss, 2025

In a five-decade-long career, John Luther Adams has always chosen to forge his own way, carving out a singular lane for himself as one of America’s best-known composers.

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writings

The Liminal Line: Remembering Barry Lopez

Orion Magazine, December 2024.

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Ice Breath
May 25, 2025

More than an environmental documentary, Ice Breath (directed by Leonard Alecu) and Become Ocean is an experimental fusion exploring the vast, inscrutable meanings of climate change.

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His music perfectly echoes the landscape he loves: impersonal, relentless, larger than human scale, yet gorgeous, a quiet chaos of colors, suffused with light. It’s not a climate everyone could live in. But for those who want to bathe their ears in an aural aurora borealis while staying warm inside, it’s a spiritual odyssey well worth taking. - Kyle Gann

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