The Magnificent Void

The Magnificent Void

Infobox Album
Name = The Magnificent Void
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = Steve Roach


Released = 1996
Recorded = at The Timeroom in Tucson, Arizona
Genre = Ambient
Length = 69:35
Label = Fathom
Producer = Steve Roach
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:mq508qfnbtm4 link]
*The "Tucson Citizen" favorable [http://www.steveroach.com/Press/review.php?id=100 June 6, 1996]
*Piero Scaruffi 8/10 [http://www.scaruffi.com/avant/roach.html link]
Last album = "Well of Souls" (1995)
This album = "The Magnificent Void" (1996)
Next album = "Halcyon Days" (1996)

"The Magnificent Void" (1996) is an album by the American ambient musician Steve Roach. This album is based on the psychological concept that a void, while a state of complete non-existence, can be perceived as all existence in a potential form.

The music on this album is dark, expansive, pure electronic textures, ending in an intense chord progression titled “Altus”.

Altus is a word from Latin meaning both “high” and “deep”.

Track listing

#”Between the Gray and the Purple” (7:42)
#”Void Memory One” (2:53)
#”Infinite Shore” (7:48)
#”Cloud of Unknowing” (10:38)
#”Void Memory Two” (3:40)
#”Void Memory Three” (3:41)
#”The Magnificent Void” (13:13)
#”Altus” (20:01)

ee also

*Steve Roach
*Ambient music
*Electronic music

External links

* [http://www.archive.org/details/The_Magnificient_Void A video] inspired by the album.


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