The Montreal string quartet Quatuor Bozzini of Alissa Cheung on violin, Clemens Merkel on violin, Stephanie Bozzini on viola, and Isabelle Bozzini on cello is extended with double bassist Pierre-Alexandre Maranda as they perform composer Simon Martin's work of long tones and timbres, exploring the nature and philosophy of sound, and our relationship to it.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2018 Country: Canada Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded at Salle de concert Oscar-Peterson, at the University of Concordia, in Montreal, Canada, on Janurary 17th and 18th, 2018, by Stephan Schmidt.
"Organizational structures hide the phenomena on which they are built. For example, spoken language requires both a certain perception of fundamental elements (phonemes), and a state of transcendence that enables us to forget these very elements. Similarly, in the aural sphere, music is the negation of sound for the benefit of its organization. Nevertheless, a sound that is completely left to its autonomous state (as opposed to it being collected for its potential as a poetic tool) goes back to the hum o f nature. thus, in order for it to be aesthetically perceivable, sound needs as much as music needs sound.
Musique d'art pour quintette a cordes articulates this dialectal tension between sound and music; seeking balance"-Simon Martin