Become Desert
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Become Desert is a large-scale orchestral and choral composition by John Luther Adams that evokes vast, slowly shifting desert soundscapes through immersive, spatially arranged music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Become Desert canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4901636 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Become Desert Context triple: [John Luther Adams, notableWork, Become Desert]
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A.
This Desert Life
This Desert Life is the third studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, noted for its introspective lyrics and blend of alternative rock and folk influences.
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B.
Welcome to the Desert of the Real
"Welcome to the Desert of the Real" is a philosophical work by Slavoj Žižek that uses post-9/11 politics, psychoanalysis, and pop culture (notably The Matrix) to explore ideology, reality, and contemporary global capitalism.
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C.
The Desert
"The Desert" is a luminous 19th-century landscape painting by American artist Sanford Robinson Gifford, exemplifying the Hudson River School’s atmospheric treatment of light and expansive natural vistas.
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D.
Desert Rose
"Desert Rose" is a popular 1999 worldbeat-influenced pop song by Sting featuring Algerian raï singer Cheb Mami, known for its fusion of Western and North African musical styles.
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E.
Deadly Desert
The Deadly Desert is a vast, impassable wasteland of lethal sands that isolates the magical Land of Oz from the surrounding world in L. Frank Baum’s Oz series.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Become Desert Target entity description: Become Desert is a large-scale orchestral and choral composition by John Luther Adams that evokes vast, slowly shifting desert soundscapes through immersive, spatially arranged music.
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A.
This Desert Life
This Desert Life is the third studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, noted for its introspective lyrics and blend of alternative rock and folk influences.
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B.
Welcome to the Desert of the Real
"Welcome to the Desert of the Real" is a philosophical work by Slavoj Žižek that uses post-9/11 politics, psychoanalysis, and pop culture (notably The Matrix) to explore ideology, reality, and contemporary global capitalism.
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C.
The Desert
"The Desert" is a luminous 19th-century landscape painting by American artist Sanford Robinson Gifford, exemplifying the Hudson River School’s atmospheric treatment of light and expansive natural vistas.
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D.
Desert Rose
"Desert Rose" is a popular 1999 worldbeat-influenced pop song by Sting featuring Algerian raï singer Cheb Mami, known for its fusion of Western and North African musical styles.
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E.
Deadly Desert
The Deadly Desert is a vast, impassable wasteland of lethal sands that isolates the magical Land of Oz from the surrounding world in L. Frank Baum’s Oz series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
choral composition
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orchestral composition ⓘ |
| composer | John Luther Adams ⓘ |
| composerNationality | American ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| dedicatedTo | desert and its creatures ⓘ |
| follows | Become Ocean ⓘ |
| genre |
choral music
ⓘ
contemporary classical music ⓘ orchestral music ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
brass
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celesta ⓘ choir ⓘ harp ⓘ orchestra ⓘ percussion ⓘ piano ⓘ strings ⓘ voices ⓘ woodwinds ⓘ |
| hasPremiereLocation |
Seattle, Washington
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linked to:
Seattle, Washington, United States
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| hasRecording | Seattle Symphony recording ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
climate and environment
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nature ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
desert landscapes
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environmental themes ⓘ |
| language | wordless ⓘ |
| movement | single continuous movement ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
immersive soundscape
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large spatial layout of performers ⓘ very slow harmonic rhythm ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Become Trilogy
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linked to:
Become trilogy
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| premieredBy |
Ludovic Morlot
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Seattle Symphony ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Cantaloupe Music ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Become Ocean
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Become River ⓘ |
| style |
minimalism
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postminimalism ⓘ |
| usesTechnique |
microtonal inflections
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slowly evolving textures ⓘ spatialized ensemble ⓘ sustained tones ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Become Desert Description of subject: Become Desert is a large-scale orchestral and choral composition by John Luther Adams that evokes vast, slowly shifting desert soundscapes through immersive, spatially arranged music.
Referenced by (3)
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