, Meditative yet propulsive. Structured yet sprawling. Gossamer yet muscular. Inspired yet meticulously constructed. METHOD MUSIC by Lawrence Ball is all of these and more, a double album of highly adventurous electronic music by a master innovator of algorithmic composition. But this album possesses a unique and illustrious lineage that, despite the clear difference in style and genre, connects it to one of the most famous works in the rock music repertoire - the ideas behind METHOD MUSIC are both the outgrowth and the foundation of the legendary LIFEHOUSE project by Pete Townshend, the conceptualizer and co-producer of the album, and presents a theoretical system of musical portraiture in which a listener's personal data is translated into a unique composition.

Lawrence Ball is a composer with over 170 scored compositions and 3,000 recorded piano improvisations. Lawrence has composed in a wide range of idioms and genres, including Turkish saz music, music for Sufi meditation groups, piano improvisations, symphonies, multimedia installations, and auto-generated music and soundscapes. He has performed in the U.S., Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, and the UK. (see lawrenceball.org)

In 1993, he began collaborating with quantum physicist Michael Tusch and programmer Dave Snowdon. Dave Snowdon and Lawrence created a software program called 'Visual Harmony', which uses Lawrence's 'Harmonic Maths' to create visual images.

Lawrence and Dave went on to collaborate with Pete Townshend on the Lifehouse Method web site, based on Townshend's Lifehouse concept. Users were invited to 'sit' and enter information about themselves, which would be analyzed by the software and transformed into a unique piece of music. The website launched in 2007 and resulted in over ten thousand portraits before going into temporary stasis in 2008.

The result of Lawrence's research work into the Lifehouse Method was the creation of this collection, combining Townshend's concept with his own Harmonic Maths language. Here, the 'sitters' are imagined by Lawrence and are used as a means to further explore computer-based composition techniques. CD 2, 'Imaginary Galaxies' is an extension and expansion of the sitter structure into a more meditative orchestral experience. For more details see Lawrence's Meditational Music blog (meditationalmusic.net/blog).

Other collaborators include healer/counselor Isobel McGilvray, choreographers Sheila Styles and Rebecca Ham, pianists Yonty Solomon, Mark Swartzentruber, Alessandra Celletti, and string chamber group The Smith Quartet. He has also accompanied the international painting group Collective Phenomena with extended keyboard improvisations. In 1996, Lawrence Ball founded the Planet Tree Music Festival, which features contemporary music along with other artistic media.

'In my musical creation I am reinforcing directness, expressing something simple yet affecting, and using the mind as an instrument,' writes Lawrence. 'Music for me is an ocean of exploration, the communication of internal realities through airwaves.' Lawrence is also a mathematician, and has worked as a private mathematics tutor for 37 years. He lives in North London. ...

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