Dumitrescu, Iancu / Ana Maria Avram / Chris Cutler / Tim Hodgkinson / The Hyperion Ensemble-Musique Action ’98 CD (Mega Blowout Sale)
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Compositions for the Hyperion ensemble by Dumitrescu, Avram, Hodgkinson and Cutler recorded at the Nancy-Vanoeuvre festival. Contents:
New Meteors and Pulsars (Dumitrescu, 1982) : For Tape and Percussion : Tape by Iancu Dumitrescu, Soloist, Chris Cutler
Nouvelle Axe (Avram, 1988) : Hyperion Ensemble
Life On Earth (Cutler, 1998) : Hyperion Ensemble with Ana Maria Avram, Prepared Piano and Tim Hodgkinson, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet, Chris Cutler, Percussion
Black Death and Errors in Construction (Hodgkinson, 1988) : Hyperion Ensemble with Ana Maria Avram, Piano, Tim Hodgkinson Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and Tape (Tape by Tim Hodgkinson)
“Musique Action 98 showcases the various experimental approaches one finds at the edgiest festivals of the '90s. In fact, the album title is the name of the French music festival that these recordings are drawn from.
The four compositions result from very different approaches and techniques. The durations of the sections in "Life on Earth" were determined by the length of burning candles. "New Meteors and Pulsars" is an electro-acoustic composition inspired by a meteor sighting. "Black Death and Errors in Construction" is a modern composition with cues for improvisation and rhythmic shifts dispersed throughout. "Novelle Axe" is described as "an exploration of string and sound technique."
This CD's whole emphasis, in fact, is on technique and form. The compositions are the results of exploring approaches to performance, underlying structures, and concepts of composition. It is magnified mental music -- theoretically intriguing -- and all the abstract, sparse experimentation you can be dared to enjoy.”-Joslyn Layne