DUMITRESCU/AVRAM/CUTLER/HODGKINSON/HYPERION ENSEMBLE
MUSIQUE ACTION ReR DACH 1
Recorded live at Nancy-Vandoevre Festival
'Musique Action; May 17, 1998. This is the record of a collaboration between the contemporary Romanian composer Dumitrescu's Hyperion Ensemble, and Ana Maria Avram, Chris Cutler and Tim Hodgkinson. The recording quality is sparkling, the music never less than gripping; challenging, conceptually bold, and strangely visceral.The compositions are:
New Meteors and Pulsars (Dumitrescu, 1988). For Tape and Percussion. Tape by Iancu Dumitresca, Soloist, Chris Cutler
Nouvelle Axe (Avram, 1988) Hyperion Ensemble. Life On Earth (Cutler. 1998)
Hyperion Ensemble with Ana Mana Avram, Prepared Piano, Tim Hodgkinson, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet and Chris Cutler, Percussion.
Black Death and Errors in Construction (Hodgkinson, 1988)
Hyperion Ensemble with Ana Mana Avram, Piano, Chris Cutler, percussion and- Tim Hodgkinson Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and Tape. Tape by Tim Hodgkinson.
source: RéR Update May 1999