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Pisaro, Michael

Nature Denatured and Found Again [5 CD Box Set]

Pisaro, Michael : Nature Denatured and Found Again  [5 CD Box Set] (Gravity Wave)

A 5 CD box set of compositions written by Michael Pisaro-Liu using field recordings captured along the Grosse Muhl River in Austria during the 2011-15 Flussaufwartstreiben project, now accompanying performances made along that river by Antoine Beuger (flute), Jurg Frey (clarinet), Marcus Kaiser (cello), Radu Malfatti (trombone), Andre Moller (guitar), and Kathryn Pisaro (oboe).
 

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Marcus Kaiser-cello

Jurg Frey-clarinet

Michael Pisaro-Liu-Liu-Liu-Liu-composer, field recordings, electronics, mixing, mastering

Andre O. Moller-electric guitar

Antoine Beuger-flute

Kathryn Pisaro-oboe, English horn

Radu Malfatti-trombone


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Limited edition of 500. The five discs come in a sturdy oversized 75cm x 55cm box with cover art by Marcus Kaiser and Yuko Zama. The box set also includes a 24-page full-color booklet containing additional photos by Joachim Eckl, Marcus Kaiser, Emmanuelle Waeckerle, and Michael Pisaro, and liner notes by Michael Pisaro and Joachim Eckl. 5 CDs Each CD is in a color full-sized sleeve with track listing, credits and images or scores.

Label: Gravity Wave
Catalog ID: 016-020
Squidco Product Code: 27166

Format: BOXSET
Condition: New
Released: 2019
Country: USA
Packaging: Box Set - 5 CDs + Booklet
Recorded along the Grosse Muhl River, in Neufelden, Austria, from 2011 to 2015.

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"The title is derived from field recordings made along the Grosse Muhl River, Neufelden, Austria, from 2011 to 2015 (during the flussaufwarts project created by Joachim Eckl, Marcus Kaiser and Michael Pisaro-Liu). Alongside the recordings of the river as it flows down from Neufelden to the Danube, are performances by Antoine Beuger, Jurg Frey, Marcus Kaiser, Radu Malfatti, Andre Moller, and Kathryn Pisaro. Pisaro has been working on the piece since 2011 and we are very happy to have it finally see the light of day."-Gravity Wave


Limited edition of 500. The five discs come in a sturdy oversized 75cm x 55cm box with cover art by Marcus Kaiser and Yuko Zama. The box set also includes a 24-page full-color booklet containing additional photos by Joachim Eckl, Marcus Kaiser, Emmanuelle Waeckerle, and Michael Pisaro, and liner notes by Michael Pisaro and Joachim Eckl. 5 CDs Each CD is in a color full-sized sleeve with track listing, credits and images or scores.

Artist Biographies

"Marcus Kaiser was born 1967. He studied cello at the Robert Schumann-Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf and visual arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf by Klaus Rinke. In 1997 he started Kaiserwellen, a space for interdisciplinary artistic presentations. He creates large-scale performative installations which include architecture, objects, video-projections and performing musicians, in which music and film are equivalent disciplines. 2001 he was awarded the Upcoming Artists Prize of the City of Düsseldorf."

-Last.fm (https://www.last.fm/music/Marcus+Kaiser)
3/13/2024

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"Jürg Frey was born in 1953 in Aarau, Switzerland. Following his musical education at the Concervatoire de Musique de Genève, he turned to a career as a clarinetist, but his activities as composer soon came to the foreground. Frey developed his own language as a composer and sound artist with the creation of wide, quiet sound spaces. His work is marked by an elementary non-extravagence of sound, a sensibilty for the qualities of the material, and precision of compositional approach. His compositions sometimes bypass instrumentation and duration altogether and touch on aspects of sound art. He has worked with compositional series, as well as with language and text. Some of these activities appear in small editions or as artist's books as individual items and small editions (Edition Howeg, Zurich; weiss kunstbewegung, Berlin; complice, Berlin). His music and recordings are published by Edition Wandelweiser. Frey has been invited to workshops as visiting composer and for composer portraits at the Universität der Künste Berlin, the Universität Dortmund and several times at Northwestern University and CalArts. Some of the other places his work has developed are the concerts at the Kunstraum Düsseldorf, the Wandelweiser-in-Residence-Veranstaltungen in Vienna, the Ny music concerts in Boras (Sweden), the cooperation with Cologne pianist John McAlpine, the Bozzini Quartet (Montréal), QO-2 (Bruxelles), Die Maulwerker, incidental music, as well as the regular stays in Berlin (where during the last years many of his compositions were premiered). Frey is a member of the Wandelweiser Komponisten Ensemble which has presented concerts for more than 15 years in Europe, North America and Japan. Frey also organizes the concert series moments musicaux aarau as a forum for contemporary music."

-Other Minds (http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Frey.shtml)
3/13/2024

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André O. Möller was born in 1962 in Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Works include "Blue/Dense" (2003), "In Memory of James Tenney" (2007), and "Musik für Orgel und eine(n) Tonsetzer(in)" (2003)

-http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/andre_o__moller (Rate Your Music)
3/13/2024

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"Antoine Beuger (b. 1955 in Oosterhout, Netherlands) studied composition with Ton de Leeuw at Sweelinck Coservatorium in Amsterdam 1973-78. In 1990 he began composing after an interruption of about 10 years. Two years later he founded Edition Wandelweiser together with composer/performer Burkhard Schlothauer. Since 1994 he's been active with the conception and organisation of KLANGRAUM, a concert series at Kunstraum Düsseldorf. During the years 1995-2001 he was working together with visual artist Mauser as artistic director of "Werkraum", Place for Interdisciplinary Artistic Events, Cologne. Since 1996 he's been artistic director of edition wandelweiser records and since 2004 managing director of Edition Wandelweiser gmbh."

-Last.FM (http://www.last.fm/music/Antoine+Beuger/+wiki)
3/13/2024

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"Kathryn Gleasman Pisaro, is active as an oboist and a music historian.

As a music historian, she received her Masters and PhD degrees in musicology at Northwestern University, with a dissertation on experimental music in Britain in the 1960s. She regularly presents papers at national and international conferences, including the Third Biennial International Conference on 20th century music in Nottingham, England, the 17th Congress of the International Musicological Society in Leuven, Belgium, the Experience Project Pop Music Conference in Seattle, Washington, and the Canadian University Music Society Annual Conference in Lennoxville, Quebec. Articles and entries can be found in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Musicworks, the art journal Seitan, Crosscurrents and Counterpoints, and the International Double Reed Society Journal.

As an oboist, she received degrees from De Paul University and California Institute of the Arts. She has performed with a wide variety of artists and ensembles, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Fresno Philharmonic, the Burbank Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Symphony, and the Downey Symphony Orchestra. She has accompanied such well known performers as Andrea Bocelli, Luciano Pavoretti, the Moody Blues, Ray Charles, Harry Belefonte, Garth Brooks, Marvin Hamlisch, and Henry Mancini. She has also played in touring Broadway productions, including A Little Night Music, Aspects of Love, Beauty and the Beast, Cabaret, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Opera, South Pacific, and Showboat. She has recorded solo contemporary music for the oboe for Edition Wandelweiser Records, jazz with the City Lights Orchestra and the Vinny Golia Large Ensemble, and rock music with the band Poi Dog Pondering. She has toured Europe six times as a new music soloist, performing in England, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Greece. Her concerto performances with the Valley Symphony Orchestra of Mozart's Concerto in C major, Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #2, and Charles Fernandez' Oboe Concerto, Sarah Wallin Huff's Elegy with the Santa Clarita Philharmonic, and, Bach's Concerto for Oboe d'amore, Gabriel's Oboe, and Bach's Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor on the American Victory Orchestra's concerts for the Daniel Pearl World Music Days.

She is currently on the faculty at California Institute of the Arts as well as CSUN. She has previously served on the faculty at Northwestern University, DePaul University, Ventura College, and Los Angeles Valley College. She coaches wind players at the Kadima Conservatory of Music, and has a private piano studio."

-Mike Curb College of Arts, CSUN (https://www.csun.edu/mike-curb-arts-media-communication/music/Kathryn-Pisaro)
3/13/2024

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"Radu Malfatti is an Austrian trombone player and composer. He was born in Innsbruck, in the province of Tyrol, on December 16, 1943. He has been described as "among the leaders in redefining the avant-garde as truly on-the-edge art." His work "since the early nineties... has been investigating the edges of ultraminimalism in both his composed and improvised work." He also operates B-Boim, a CD-R only record label focusing on improvised and composed music, much of it his own."

-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radu_Malfatti)
3/13/2024

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Track Listing:



Disc 1: Fissures in Green (2011)

1.1 Rain at the Station
1.2 Still Life with Cicadas, Waterfall and Radu
1.3 Silent Prayer
1.4 Langhalsen

Disc 2: Pathsplitter (Yellow-Red) (2012)

2.1 Canon a2
2.2 Canon a3
2.3 Canon a4
2.4 Canon a5

Disc 3: Landscape in Black and Grey (2013)

3.1 The Chords of the Grosse Mühl
3.2 Six-Part Panorama
3.3 Building a World
3.4 The Disappearance of a World

Disc 4: White Light Under the Door (2014)

4.1 Electricity
4.2 Heat
4.3 Light
4.4 Gas

Disc 5: Hellgrün (Small New World) (2015)

5.1 Malachite
5.2 Bird Warnings
5.3 The River is a Green-Brown God
5.4 Emerald Twilight

Each disc has four 12-minute tracks, each of which is followed by 12 seconds of silence.

The total duration of each disc is 48:48

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