Versed in jazz and contemporary composed music, Belgian alto saxophonist Audrey Lauro embarks on a solo journey with seven saxophone improvisations, using 'everyday objects' to prepare her instrument and close-microphone placement to create an intimate sound space, exploring 'the area where voice and instrument converge'.
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UPC: 5904224872915
Label: Relative Pitch
Catalog ID: RPRSS031
Squidco Product Code: 35260
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Sunny Side Inc. Studio, in Brussels, Belgium, in June, 2023, by Nico Lefevre.
"Using 'everyday' objects to prepare the instrument in a simple way structures this " Prose Metallique ", in which each piece offers a poetic approach to language and textual references. Recorded in one day, these close-miked solo pieces for alto saxophone explore the area where voice and instrument converge."-Relative Pitch
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• Show Bio for Audrey Lauro Audrey Lauro, Belgium. "First playing in jazz and then contemporary music following musical composition studies and gaining a Slavic Philology Master, Audrey Lauro has spent the last decade developping her music on the experimental Belgian music scene. As an alto sax player focusing mostly on free improvised music she works deeply in the language of the instrument. From the phrase to sound event through all kinds of atoms and particles.In 2012 she curates the festival Wolves Stories dedicated to the female improv scene. She invites to join the "Wolves" Maggie Nichols (UK), Mia Zabelka (AU), and 8 other female musicians to create a portrait of women through music, texts, films and experiments. In 2013 she invites Stine Janvin Motland (NO) to perform with the wolves collective. PRODUCTIONS Since 2013 she regularly worked with the innovative production platform/ensemble for multidisciplinary music projects ChampdAction (www.champdaction.be/Antwerpen/)performing in several productions of the collective : - 2013 " Hold Your Horses" grand Opéra de trash in 27 acts and entr'acteshttp://www.champdaction.be/en/hold-your-horses/trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYlEOnKXfh4 - 2014 P-Trains /Astrin Phosphora / (20 Nov 2014 at DeSingel, "Ann Eysermans et ChampdAction") - 2015 "HRZSCHMRZ"" In the opera HRZSCHMRZ Serge Verstockt and ChampdAction put the spotlight on 'love'. They ponder the ever advancing digital world that engulfs us in our daily reality."http://www.champdaction.be/en/hrzschmrz/trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjXWxL-md- in 2016 A.L worked currently with Q02 ( workspace for experimental music and sound art based in Brussels), B R O N K S (Theater for a young audience /Brussels) and The National Theater " La Monnaie" for the creation " It's Frankestein Stupid", presented in may 2016 during the European Opera Days . ^ Hide Bio for Audrey Lauro
11/4/2024
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Track Listing:
1. Segments D'un Chant 3:57
2. Prose Metallique (1) 5:39
3. Prose Plastique (1) 5:22
4. Prose Plastique (2) 6:09
5. Chant Metallique 8:05
6. Residu 2:44
7. Prose Metallique (2) 3:27
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