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Frey, Jurg: Ephemeral Constructions (Edition Wandelweiser Records)

Three works, two for large ensembles of performers on sax, guitar, clarinet, voice, percussion, horn, flute, vibes, and objects that belie the size of the group in its fragile presences, with a shorter trio of Frey, Greg Stuart and Erik Carlson transitioning the large pieces; compositions conceived as both short presences within abundant orchestration.
 

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UPC: 4011778040873

Label: Edition Wandelweiser Records
Catalog ID: EWR 1709
Squidco Product Code: 24172

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2017
Country: Germany
Packaging: Cardstock 3 page foldover
Recorded in Columbia, South Carolina, April, 2016, by Jeff Francis.


Personnel:



Kallam Ashmore-objects

Brian Bethea-saxophone

Erik Carlson-violin

Eric Dennis-objects

James Easteppe-guitar

Jurg Frey-clarinet

Michael Halbrook-objects

Timothy Hall-guitar

John Kammerer-horn

AJ Karp-objects

Logan McLean-voice

Lauren Phillips-objects

Brooke Rosenberg-objects

Chris Ruggiero-objects

Jessica Russell-objects

Nikil Sairam-violin

Bailey Seabury-percussion

Michelle Beck-horn

Olivia Smithson-objects

Philip Snyder-flute

Drake Strobel-objects

Greg Stuart-vibraphone, percussion, director

Neil Thomas-objects

Rachel Whelan-flute, piano


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Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"We combine the aspect of construction with safety and durability, while the ephemeral is somewhat uncertain, impermanent and not easy to grasp. Thus, construction and ephemerality seem to be opposites, but in a piece of music both can be present simultaneously and equally. On the other hand, the sum of constructive processes and clear formal decisions leads to a clear architecture. On the other hand, the temporal sequences and the openness of the materials keep the music in the hover and bring it back into the areas of the airy and fleeting. One has to go out of the way of the convincing, the power of construction, in which construction becomes fragile and permeable. On the other hand, this gives the ephemeral the opportunity to develop presence and to give a glimmer of durability in this presence. An essential part of the work takes place in this intermediate area. A construction that is almost unaffected leads to a music that simply wants to be sensation. A fragrance, light and shadow, far-haired, a look, a landscape."

-Jurg Frey, Sketchbook, 2007


Artist Biographies

"Erik Carlson has performed as a soloist and with many chamber and orchestral ensembles throughout Europe and the Americas. He is a highly active performer of contemporary music and has had works written for him by numerous composers, including Karlheinz Stockhausen, Tom Johnson, Jürg Frey, and Georges Aperghis. Mr. Carlson is an enthusiastic proponent of interdisciplinary collaboration, and performs frequently with poets, dancers, actors, and film.

He is a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble and the Talea Ensemble and is the founder of the New York Miniaturist Ensemble. He has been featured on over a dozen recordings, including his own two recent albums of music for violin. Also a composer, he has had his musical compositions performed in a wide variety of venues. He studied violin with Jorja Fleezanis, Ronald Copes, and Robert Mann, and holds a Master's degree from The Juilliard School. Mr. Carlson enjoys expensive bourbon and long walks on the beach.:

-International Contemporary Ensemble website (http://iceorg.org/about/artist/carlson)
9/20/2023

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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)
9/20/2023

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"Greg Stuart is a percussionist whose work draws upon a mixture of music from the experimental tradition, Wandelweiser, improvisation, and electronics. His performances have been described as "a ghostly, gorgeous lesson in how close, concentrated listening can alter and enhance perception" (The New York Times). Since 2006, he has collaborated extensively with the composer Michael Pisaro, producing a large body of music comprised of pieces that focus on the magnification of small sounds through recording and layering, often in combination with field recordings and/or electronic sound. His role as an interpreter of Pisaro's compositions has been called "a David Tudor to Pisaro's Cage" (The Boston Globe). Stuart's most recent collaboration with the composer, Continuum Unbound, a three-disc box set on Gravity Wave, grew out of the pair's field recording work in Congaree National Park and was selected by The Wire as one of the best albums of 2014.

Stuart currently performs with fellow percussionists Tim Feeney and Sarah Hennies in the percussion trio, Meridian, and with computer musician Joe Panzner. Other recent collaborations include projects with Ryoko Akama, Erik Carlson, Antoine Beuger, Jürg Frey, Manfred Werder, Kunsu Shim, Phillip Bush, Nomi Epstein, and Speak Percussion. He has appeared as a featured performer at numerous festivals and notable venues presenting experimental music including MaerzMusik (Berlin), the Melbourne Festival, Café Oto (London), Arnolfini Centre for Contemporary Arts (Bristol), Gallery Kapelica (Ljubljana), Cha'ak'ab Paaxil (Mérida), Issue Project Room (New York), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Dreamland (Louisville), Elastic Arts Foundation (Chicago), New Music Co-Op (Austin), Philadelphia Sound Forum, and Non-Event (Boston) among others. He has recorded for numerous labels, including Edition Wandelweiser, Gravity Wave, Erstwhile, Cathnor, New World Records, Accidie, L'innomable, caduc, Lengua de Lava, Crisis, and Senufo Editions.

An enthusiastic educator, Stuart has given lectures, workshops, and performances at the University of Huddersfield, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Victorian College of Arts, Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Louisville, the New England Conservatory of Music, Harvard University, Florida State University, Georgia State University, and Tulane University. Stuart holds a D.M.A. and M.A. from the University of California, San Diego, and a BMus from Northwestern University. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Music in Columbia, SC where he teaches experimental music, music history, and runs the Experimental Music Workshop."

-University of South Carolina, School of Music (https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/music/faculty-staff/Stuart.php)
9/20/2023

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Track Listing:



1. Ephemeral Constructions 40:18

2. Circular Music #7 4:53

3. Circular Music #6 23:54

Related Categories of Interest:

May 2017
Compositional Forms
Large Ensembles
lowercase, reductionist, micro-improv, sound improv, onkyo sound
New in Compositional Music
Objects and Home-made Instruments

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