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Randy Greif's audio treatments capture the otherworldliness of terrestrial sounds. Speech and field recordings from Amazonia, New Guinea and Thailand give his work an exotic quality; but these and more everyday noises are just as often manipulated into more mysterious, disorienting forms. Greif's effects are dark and at times oppressive; the sounds are densely layered like the haunting audio of a fragmented, half-forgotten dream. But Greif also has a penchant for the integration of narrative structure: Verdi's Requiem (1997), an imaginary, musical reinterpretation of the composer's life, followed the previous decade's collaboration with Alva Svoboda, whose unsettling poems found themselves manipulated and enmeshed in electronic atmospheres. Greif received widespread and well deserved acclaim for his six-hour treatment of Lewis Carroll's immortal Alice In Wonderland, an ambitious, hallucinatory tour de force.