Symphony #12 for the
Virtual Orchestra
Quartet for Virtual Strings
"I truly believe that this is your best album to
date because it incorporates so much of what you have explored and crafted in your previous albums
and demonstrates how elevated and sophisticated MIDI compositions can sound
when composed by the medium’s preeminent composer."
Jacqueline Kharouf, Fanfare Magazine
From Cosmic Dust (2022)
Nine Hymns on Spiritual Life
Virtual Concerto for Oboe & Digital Ensemble
"Gerber composes in a fluent, highly accessible,
tuneful and expressive idiom, brimming with vitality and momentum."
Symphony #11
Home and Love
Body Politics
Hymn to the Divine
"Jerry has always shown an
extraordinary sensibility in orchestrating for conventional symphonic
instruments alongside virtual electronic ones that arguably has no equal."
David Baer, SoundBytes Magazine
5 stars - Digitally Rendered Symphony Explores the Possibilities of Classical
Music for the Digital Age
Music for Twelve Instruments
Small Matters
The Galaxies
Symphony #7
Tokafi : "...The
eleventh in a series of orchestral albums using entirely sampled instruments, it brings together elements of Classical era-writing, late Romantic orchestral music
and American minimalism with a cinematic sensibility.
The record not only demonstrates the powerful and masterful application of sampled instruments,
but, at least as importantly, showcases Gerber’s versatile and emotive writing."
Rhapsody
Windy Hop
Particle Play
String Theory
Speaking in Tones
Elegy
Concerto for Clarinet & Virtual Instruments
The Journey
The Calling
A Shift in Consciousness
Tokafi: "...Symphony #6, is a work of furious dynamics, of great plasticity and dramatic effects. In its cinematic opening movement, springing forth from a swelling string chord,
the music charges between pastoral beauty and nightly sensuality,
held together by a recurring motive of quickly
ascending lines and pointed beats."
Lament to the Spirit of War
Prayer for a Marriage
The Power of Love
A Noiseless Patient Spider
Unending Love
Echo
A Ritual to Read to Each Other
O Karma, Dharma, Pudding
Dulce et Decorum Est
The Peace of Wild Things
This World is Not Conclusion
As Once the Winged Energy
Electronic Music Foundation: "Jerry Gerber is well known for his talent and skill in emulating an acoustic orchestra with electronically-generated
sounds. He does it so well, in fact, that the results he gets are unique. His music has an emotional and poetic punch and his sounds make great sense together in terms of traditional orchestration. The compositions on this CD are 'Symphony
No. 5' (2002) and 'Essay for Virtual Orchestra' (2001). As
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz points out, 'The symphony's masterpiece is Gravity/Zero-Gravity, a coloristic chronicle ...' Gerber animates the technology into producing something quintessentially human."
Patterns
Five Songs on the Poetry of Tu Fu
Suite for the Virtual Piano
Electronic Music Foundation: "Jerry Gerber is so great at what he does that you're
missing something amazing if you don't listen to this CD.
He uses MIDI instruments to compose for orchestra, and he's such a master of a virtual musical world you're completely unaware it's electronic.
But, then, there's nothing virtual about his music. It's real. And it's beautiful. His superb 'virtual orchestra' compositions include a multi-movement chamber setting of Chinese poetry with sounds of traditional Chinese instruments. There's also a suite for piano sounds. His style is romantic.
His sounds are beautiful and expressive. Don't miss it."
Symphony #4 for the Virtual Orchestra Prelude Fugue Sonata for Virtual Cello & Piano
Electronic
Music Foundation: "Is
that a real orchestra in his studio? Believe him when he says Jerry Gerber's 'Symphony #4
for the Virtual Orchestra is so artfully done,
so musically sensitive and convincing, that it emerges as one of the finest
examples of electronic orchestration
that there is. Gerber has a fine musical
ear and considerable skills in translating instrumental concepts to electronic
media. Other compositions on
the CD
include 'Prelude' (1980) and 'Fugue' (1980) for MIDI piano. And 'Sonata for
Virtual Cello & Piano' (1982) is an electronic realization of a work
originally composed for acoustical instruments. The production, which means
composition, orchestration, MIDI programming, recording and mastering,
is by
Jerry Gerber. This is a very impressive CD!"
Electronic Music Foundation: "The sounds that Gerber has chosen portray his music with a sense of
presence and realism. He is a master of MIDI orchestration..."
