Arctic Odyssey: Music, Images & CD-ROM from the Northwest Passage [Hardcover]

Richard Olsenius (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 30, 1998

Arctic Odyssey is an adventure in book, music and CD-ROM which follows a National Geographic photographer on an incredible assignment through the vast wilderness of the Northwest Passage. The music CD has 40 minutes of original instrumental music.

Editorial Reviews

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"Arctic Odyssey is a unique product that blends music, photography and computer software into one innovative, attractive package...Both the print quality and multi-media production standards are very high...A link off the disc and onto an Internet site provides additional virtual resolution. -- Ashtabula Star Beacon, January 14, 2000

"The jewel case-sized multimedia package includes a well-written 72-page travelogue ...while the CD in the back of the book becomes a CD-ROM when placed in a Mac or PC, dishing out movies, music, narration, and hundreds of stunning photographs for hours of interactive Arctic adventure. The music alone is worth the price of admission, the sweeping symphonic piano-based compositions mirroring the grand proportions of the landscape it describes."

"This emerging form, the combination of book, music, and gift which blends multiple artistic forms and technological formats, seems like the perfect product for (those) on the cutting edge of a new millennium." -- NAPRA ReView, September/October 1999

Richard Olsenius combines his love for the land and the people of the Arctic with his unsurpassed talents as a photographer and musician to bring the reader, viewer and listener of "Arctic Odyssey" an incredible experience. The words and photographs combine masterfully with Olsenius' music to bring home the history, the magic and the poetry of this unforgiving land. -- Kent Kobersteen, Director of Photography, National Geographic Magazine

From the Publisher

Richard Olsenius has produced four books and two award-winning films. Arctic Odyssey is his second project designed to provide a multilevel approach to storytelling, with music capturing the mood and CD-ROM capturing the filmic quality of the region he is writing about.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 72 pages
• Publisher: Bluestem Prod (December 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0960906495
• ISBN-13: 978-0960906499
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,786,540 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Music Compositions, January 31, 2001

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This review is from: Arctic Odyssey: Music, Images & CD-ROM from the Northwest Passage (Hardcover)

Presented in an innovative format of book, music, and interactive CD-ROM, Arctic Odyssey was inspired by the journey photographer Richard Olsenius made through the Northwest Passage, a waterway that's still treacherous, mysterious, and alluring to adventurers. It all works very well to capture an authentic feeling for the majesty of the Arctic. The main attraction here is the music, which is beautifully done with a far greater range of melody than I've come to expect from New Age music. Indeed, thankfully it bears no resemblance to that idiotic, monotonous, whiny New Age stuff that makes me psychotic to the point where all I can think about is strangling somebody. The music here is mostly piano-based, and the whole package is well worth seeing and hearing.