Music like Akira Rabelais

Akira Rabelais is a Los Angeles-based composer and author.

Akira is the author of ‘Argeïphontes Lyre’, a software filtering application based on recombination and morphologies. He was a protégé of Tom Erbe while studying music at the California Institute of the Arts. He has collaborated with various musicians, including Björk, David Sylvian, Harold Budd, Nobukazu Takemura, Stephan Mathieu and Ekkehard Ehlers.

In a 2009 Wire interview Rabelais said: "Combining oscillations, synergies and platforms (as well as complexly informing counterpoints), my overall aesthetic is that of the 'radically-theoretical' school of graphic ideas. I spent the bulk of my composition degree multimedially writing octatonic idea-music, a most rewarding (if post-Stockhausen) pursuit. The juxtaposition and arranging of contrasting chromatic studies dominates much of my work, and I have an avid interest in mixing the technological with the absolute, the dramatic with the musical, and the post-cognitive with the polytimbral. As a rather complex composer, I yearn to incorporate, and sense quartally-aleatoric resonators, an approach that features prominently in my recent triadic works. I build upon the so-called 'intricacies of structured dissonances', and transform them into what I term 'rational-meta-isorhythmic cadence-textures', which I see as a distinct improvement. Unlike traditional frequencies, I aim to develop performers, including a highly dynamic piece that senses all notions of theatrical transcriptions.