Ray Buttigieg is considered one of the first pioneers of Electronic Music. His influences range frm The Beatles White Album period to early Pink Floyd to more electronic old German school.
“In an era whose artistic expression has come to be dominated by the stultifying forces of financial and ideological conservatism, Ray Buttigieg reminds us to keep our options open. Buttigieg is a futuristic, a visionary – perhaps the leading visionary of this new breed of synthesists experimenting and exploring the rich vein of sound materials. Buttigieg is far more than a creator of intriguing music, just as he is far more than a synthesist and multi-instrumentalist. He is a poetic genius, and an articulate spokesman for a philosophy of creativity and the art of life, that although it would seem vital to the creative process is seldom encountered in either popular or “serious” art. The real rewards of Buttigieg’s influences are bound to go not to those who clone his innovations in compositional structures and sound processing, but to those who are willing to apply his insights so as to discover the sources of their own creativity – to those who are willing, as Buttigieg is, to take chances.”
from “The Next Wave – The Third High,” Synth Magazine
DISCOGRAPHY
Studio Albums
(1982) Sound of Transformation – Symphonic Poem No.1
(1982) Muvumenti Globali
(1982) The Essential Transition – Symphonic Poem No.2
(1983) Etere (Ether)
(1984) Architecture, Agriculture & Astronomy
(1984) Nearing the Millennium – Symphonic Poem No.3
(1985) Quantum Mechanics
(1985) Music for Computers
(1986) Music for Movies
(1986) Music for Videos
(1987) Codes (Diary of an Earthling
(1987) Perpetual Energies
(1987) Sequence – Symphonic Poem No.4
(1988) Messages
(1989) Spirit of the Soul – Symphonic Poem No.5
(1989) Etenoha (Mother Earth) Earthnoise No.1
(1990) In Dream Passages
(1991) Almost Pure Vision – Symphonic Poem No.6
(1992) Elements
(1993) Musical Instincts of Nature
(1993) Deus Meus, What are they doing? – Symphonic Poem No.7
(1995) Ir-Rahal (The Village) Earthnoise No.2
(1995) Procyon [aCMi] – Symphonic Poem No.8
(1996) Methuselah Chamber
(1998) Spheric
(1999) Roswell 1947, Alien Debris – Symphonic Poem No.9
Collection Albums
(1988) Excerpts & Movements 1978–1988 Selected Works Vol.1
(1990) Musics III Sound Science Series
(1991) Time Temples
(1998) Themes & Suites 1988–1998 Selected Works Vol.2
(2000) Ars Electronica
(2000) Memory Bouquet [Complete Collection One]
(2001) Opera’tion Trilogy
(2003) Magical Worlds
(2005) Mysteries of Life
Collaboration Albums
(1979) Thru Energy (we Connect) – (with the Cykx computer)
(1981) Compucircuit 0.008 m/s – (with the Cykx computer)
(1984) Mechanism of Thought – (with the Cykx computer)
(1988) Symbols – (with In Rebellion)
(1988) Origins – (with In Rebellion)
(1989) Numbers – (with In Rebellion)
(1989) Rituals – (with In Rebellion)
(1995) Apocryphon – (with Novi Mystici)
(2003) From the Secret Garden – (with FTSG)
(2004) The Melancholy of Mozart – (with Noise Button)
Compilations Albums
(2002) Gossamer & Lace
(2003) Prophesied by Clouds
Soundtrack Albums
(1981) Signals
(1985) Down on Earth
(1985) Moving Images
(2005) Electropolis
Symphonic Poems
Sound of Transformation – Symphonic Poem No.1 (1982)
The Essential Transition – Symphonic Poem No.2 (1982)
Nearing the Millennium – Symphonic Poem No.3 (1984)
Sequence – Symphonic Poem No.4 (1987)
Spirit of the Soul – Symphonic Poem No.5 (1989)
Almost Pure Vision – Symphonic Poem No.6 (1991)
Deus Meus, What are they doing? – Symphonic Poem No.7 (1993)
Procyon [aCMi] – Symphonic Poem No.8 (1995)
Roswell 1947, Alien Debris – Symphonic Poem No.9 (1999)
WEBSITE: http://www.raybuttigieg.com
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