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Elliott Sharp: Spectropia Suite – Original Soundtrack to the film “Spectropia”
Info text: Spectropia is both a full-length feature film and an interactive media event set in a possible England in 2099, and in New York City in 1931 after the stock market crash. Directed by Toni Dove, it tells a story of time travel and supernatural possession to explore the disorders brought on by consumer culture. For […]
Scott Fields: what we talk about
Info text: Our duo was formed for the 2007 Cologne Music Triennial (MusikTriennale Köln) series “Solos for duos, improvisation from yesterday and today”. Festival yentas matched six Early Music specialists with six New Music specialists. Each pair played similar instruments. Harpsichord and piano. Medieval organ and analog synthesizer. The […]
Elliott Sharp, Scott Fields: AFIADACAMPOS
Info text: Elliott Sharp: There is both ease and difficulty in an ongoing collaboration, especially one between two guitarist composers. We now both have a good sense of each others' language on the instrument — not just the surface shape and form but the underlying syntax and substance. This allows for a flow and interlock of […]
Carl Ludwig Hübsch: Carl Ludwig Hübsch's Longrun Development of the Universe - The creators bend a master plan
Info text: One of the great appeals of this trio (alright, quartet, but we'll get to that) is that it breathes as a single living being. In concert, and on their previous recordings, Hübsch, Schubert, and Wierbos sound as though they are one three-voiced beast, singing ad libitum, moving seamlessly between written material and the stuff […]
Günter Baby Sommer, Akira Ando, Xu Fengxia, Gunda Gottschalk: Günter Baby Sommer / percussion & strings – WHISPERING EURASIA
Info text: “Whispering Eurasia,” the first recording of this established ensemble, draws on the aesthetics of Chinese classical music, Japanese improvisation, American-style jazz, and European free improvisation. What the four members of this multi-cultural, multi-national, multi-tradition group have in common is a sensitivity to live, dynamic interactions. Whether working though composed material, conceptual constructions, or complete […]
Manfred Kniel: Manfred Kniel and his Reduction Quartet – LOW DOWN MUSIC
Info text: Satirical comments on the CD LOW DOWN MUSIC You will hear the “Reduction Quartet” with eight LOW DOWN compositions. LOW DOWN MUSIC is a clear, uncompromisingly reduced, independent musical language that incorporates the basic messages of all possible types of music. LOW DOWN MUSIC is the music of enlightened simplicity, of cheerful failure - it is music from me. Manfred […]
Dieter Schnebel: String Quartet
Info text: CONCENTRATES, GERMS Dieter Schnebel has written three compositions for string quartet: works of the genre in which the expression of enlightened culture has been most concentrated; in which living spaces were cultivated for sublime inwardness and the exchange of freedom-filled thoughts; in which compositional arts unfold their most beautiful blossoms. Schnebel's examination of the implications of this historic […]
David Philip Hefti: ROTAS · Wunderhorn Music
Info text: David Philip Hefti: Rotas · Wunderhorn Music ROTAS – Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra ROTAS, concerto for oboe and orchestra, was created in 2009 on behalf of the Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra and is dedicated to the soloist Thomas Indermühle, the conductor Rudolf Piehlmayer and the Augsburg Philharmonic . ROTAS is the last composition of my 5-part SATOR cycle. The five compositions are represented by […]
York Höller: Spheres - The Eternal Day
Info text: Musical richness of relationships With his orchestral cycle Spheres, the composer York Höller has created a large-format work that brings together the literary, artistic and personal experiences of the past decades as if in a focal point. Spheres consists of six “sound images” of different character, the first five of which were created between 2001 and 2005; after the death of his [...]
York Höller: Topic - Horizon - Myth - Black Peninsulas
Info text: Music as sound speech A portrait of the poet in sounds: York Höller The premiere of Topic by the orchestra of the Cologne University of Music in the large broadcasting hall of WDR Cologne brought York Höller his breakthrough in 1967. A representative of the Schott publishing house then signed the young composer, and at the instigation of the music editor Otto Tomek, the WDR played […]
Helmut Lachenmann: String Quartet
Info text: Composing in the tonus virgineus About Helmut Lachenmann's string quartets I keep the matter secret by stripping it. Anselm Kiefer When he was honored with the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2008 for his life's work, the committee's statement stated that in his compositional oeuvre, Helmut Lachenmann had "given sound to matter [...]
Nikolaus Brass: songlines
Info text: In changing voices and verses, the singing goes up into the jubilant light and down into the shadows. Helge Slaatto (violin) replaces Klaus-Peter Werani (viola), gives the floor back to him and takes it up again for a short duet with Frank Reinecke (double bass). Then again, and until the end, the song […]