Mars lasar biography
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Lasar, Mars
New Age musician, producer, composer
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Musician, producer, composer, and technological innovator Mars Lasar has created some of the most widely known sounds of the digital age. His work includes soundtracks for movies and electronic games, children&#x;s albums, television commercials, and recordings inspired bygd the environment. He has also worked as a producer and programmer for acts such as Seal, Divinyls, and Herbie Hancock. Always an innovator, Lasar experimented with his first synthesizer as a teenager and subsequently worked as a programmer for a computer company while he started his career as a professional musician. Making the transition to producer around , he released his own first skiva, Olympus, in In the decade that followed, Lasar released 13 more albums while continuing to work as a programmer and producer for other artists.
Lasar was born in the late s in Germany, but his family moved to Sydney, Aust
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Mars Lasar
Biography
Born in Germany, Mars Lasar (lah-ZAHR) moved to Australia with his parents when he was less than a year old. He started playing the piano at age eleven and received classical, jazz and composition training. At age fifteen, he won the “Young Composers Award” at the Sydney Opera House.
Of his earliest influences Mars admits, tongue-in-cheek, “I have to take my hat off to Beethoven,” but he also cites such disparate performers as Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, early Van Halen, Alan Parsons, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and Jean-Michel Jarre as sparking his musical interest.
In high school he began dabbling in abstract concrete music with a friend who taped frequencies off the short wave radio and incorporated them into musical pieces, an early form of sampling. Later, Mars joined the Australian band IQ where he was discovered by the President of Fairlight Computers who hired him as the company&#;s in-house composer. The exposure led to a series of free
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Mars Lasar
Composer
Mars Lasar is a German-born keyboardist and composer, raised in Australia. Predominantly new-age, his music also contains elements of electronica, jazz, pop, world, and rock. Lasar's music has appeared on television and in films; one notable example is music from his first album, Olympus,[1][2] being used for CBS's coverage of the Olympic Games in Albertville, France in He has worked with other artists including Seal, Herbie Hancock, Jon Stevens, John Sykes, and t.A.T.u. Many of his album covers feature his own artwork.
In , Mars released the second of his 8-minute MindScapes series.[3]
Early life
[edit]When Lasar was eleven, he began to learn piano, and was trained extensively in jazz and classical. It was his mother, who was a classical artist from Germany, that ignited a love for music in him.[4][3] Lasar has been interested in technology as long as he can remember.[5] Using a stopwatc