Six sound-oriented compositions for acoustic ensemble performed by the UK ensemble Apartment House, beautifully reflective and rich works, the first six pieces being text scores for open instrumentation, along with Peace/Tree, a seven movement work for violin, cello and piano that specifies pitches while leaving room for interpretation and improvisation.
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Mira Benjamin-violin
Bridget Carey-viola
Mark Knoop-piano
Simon Limbrick-percussion
Anton Lukoszevieze-cello
Gavin Morrison-alto flute
Chihiro Ono-violin
James Opstad-double bass
Heather Roche-clarinet
Nancy Ruffer-flutes
Rebecca Toal-trumpet
Kerry Yong-piano
David Zucchi-soprano saxophone
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Label: Another Timbre
Catalog ID: at207
Squidco Product Code: 33208
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2023
Country: UK
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Goldsmiths Music Studio, in London, UK, from September, 2022, to January, 2023, by Simon Reynell.
"Pauline Oliveros (born 1932) was one of the pioneers of experimental music in the USA from the 1960's until her death in 2016. She was a composer, teacher, writer, improviser and accordionist. In the 1960's she focused mainly on electronic music, as a founding member and director of the San Francisco Tape Music Center, which later became the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College. In 1981, in order to escape a sense of being creatively constrained in academic environments, she left her post as Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego, and relocated to upstate New York to become an independent composer and performer. She had already begun to formulate new music theories, and investigate ways of focusing attention more closely on music, giving rise to her concepts of 'sonic awareness' and 'deep listening'. She understood the act of listening as a kind of healing ritual or meditation, but this doesn't mean that her music is always gentle or pacific. She wrote several books, including Roots of the Moment, Deep Listening and Sounding the Margins, and worked with countless musicians in improvisations and realisations of her own scores, as well as those of many others. The Deep Listening Institute continues to promote her music and ideas."-Another timbre
Interview with Anton Lukoszevieze about Pauline Oliveros's music:
You suggested doing a CD of Pauline Oliveros's music, and I was initially sceptical because I hadn't heard many realisations of her pieces that I liked. I feel you've proved that my scepticism was misplaced, but why did you want to record these pieces?
Before I answer that, I only knew Pauline by correspondence; some 20 years ago she created for me a solo work based on personal astrology, which I subsequently lost in a flood in my old studio, much to my shame and sadness. But maybe it was a sign that I would engage with her work later with Apartment House? Her large body of work and the development of her deep listening practice are obviously monumental in the history of experimental music, but I wanted to focus on some of the many musical compositions that she left. I wanted to record some of these works as a means to explore them and see how they sounded! People talk too much about music, I want to hear it. Life is not a workshop or a conference, it should be steeped in live performance and action, and a lot of it.
I worry that some of Oliveros's text scores are so unspecific that they could go in any direction - good and bad - and that too much is being left to the interpreting musicians. Apartment House could probably take a page torn at random from a telephone directory and make something musically interesting from it, but do you feel that there's more craft to her scores than I'm suggesting?
Nearly all her scores are textual, apart from a few that contain some fragments of musical notation, often rhythmic in nature. All of the ones we recorded were textual, apart from Tree/Peace which is entirely constructed of pitch material plus interpretive instructions.
A score is a question, an interpretation an answer. Some questions are good (or indifferent) and the same for some answers. I hope we succeeded in the latter. Text scores sometimes leave open a field of many possibilities, and are actually quite difficult to create successfully, I think. But I hope that the scores that I chose are successful as there is a variety; some are quite structural (such as Quintessential) and others much more open and subjective (Horse Sings from Cloud). Her scores seem to attend to a process of listening in the moment and having the courage to make individual decisions, which change the course of the music. The music becomes like a stream of musical consciousness, but underpinned with a strong internal dialectical logic. Often for me, the key to performing such works is to listen and not listen, to react and not react, to be serious or absurd. One must also be attentive to one's instrument, to feel that connection with the creation of musical sound. But essentially, it is about creating something new, through the score, not attending to habits or cliches, hopefully. I wanted to be surprised by her compositions and I think I was, that's it!
The shorter, textual pieces on the CD were recorded after some discussion, but with little or no rehearsal, so they obviously have that 'live' quality you describe, of listening and taking decisions in the moment. But a lot of Apartment House recording sessions retain some quality of 'liveness', even when you're playing fully scored works. You're not just following a score, but are working together to make the piece 'happen' and come alive in the moment.
Many of us in the group have been playing together for many years, so I think a lot of that 'liveness' stems from an unwritten familiarity of approach to interpreting the music, but also adding certain instrumental methods, subtle nuances of timbre, non vibrato (mostly, but not exclusively) and a certain objective yet highly sensitive way of playing the music, letting sounds be sounds but moulding and shaping them in connection with others. I think that, when confronted with a text score, musicians often just improvise in some loose and vague way, as if that is enough to create the musical intentions of the composer/score. I believe that sounds do have an inner life, character and impetus that Pauline is focusing on in these works, through the medium of group performance and consciousness. I think that too much rehearsal and discussion could dampen those aspirations, hence the necessity of a certain 'liveness' to our recordings of this and other music. I hope that is the result, of course.
Tell us about Tree/Peace, which turned out to be by some way the longest piece on the CD. It's a far more substantial piece than I'd imagined. The trio had rehearsed the day before the recording, but did the music surprise you too?
It did surprise in the sense that I thought perhaps it would be wilder and have more disparate and improvised sections. There are elements of those things, at times, but what struck me was the highly constructed pitch structure of the piece and an almost formalist approach. But the magical 'undoing' of these things is her text introduction, which I won't quote here, whereby the pitches (the notes) are constantly in a state of flux and merge/emerge out of instrumental sounds (improvised) and timbral fluctuations. The unfolding of each part also felt 'right' and unhurried, which is probably why the duration became longer than we had envisaged.
Tree/Peace has seven movements, all with titles relating to the life cycle of a tree (see below). At the recording session we discussed whether to include these titles on the CD cover. In the end I felt that as a listener, having programmatic titles acted as a limitation on the way I would hear the music, and I'd rather experience it without those prompts. But presumably you, Mark and Mira took account of the titles, and were to some extent directed by them when playing?
Indeed, we did discuss the titles and they do bear relation to our interpretations of each section, but not in a totally literal way. I think some of the descriptive elements are quite subtle, in our performance, but I like to think they go to the heart of the matter. One has to create a certain poetry with music, and holding up a sign each time that there is a stylistic change is perhaps not the most subtle approach... Trees are enigmatic in many ways and also complex microsystems that exist on many different levels.
For those who do want to know, the titles of the seven movements of Tree / Peace are:
1 - The Mystery of Propagation
2 - The Growth of the Seedling
3 - The Full Formation and Maturity of the Tree
4 - The Action of the Seasons
5 - The Magical Nature of the Tree
6 - The Death of the Tree
7 - Contemplation
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• Show Bio for Mira Benjamin "Mira Benjamin is a Canadian violinist, researcher and new-music instigator. She performs new and experimental music, with a special interest in microtonality & tuning practice. She actively commissions music from composers at all stages of their careers, and develops each new work through multiple performances. Current collaborations include new works by Anna Höstman, Scott McLaughlin, Amber Priestley, Taylor Brook and James Weeks. Since 2011, Mira has co-directed NU:NORD - a project-based music and performance network which instigates artistic exchanges and encourages community building between music creators from Canada, Norway & the UK. To date NU:NORD has engaged 79 artists and commissioned 62 new works. Through this initiative, Mira hopes to offer a foundation from which Canadian artists can reach out to artistic communities overseas, and provide a conduit through which UK & Norwegian artists can access Canada's rich art culture. Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Mira lived for ten years in Montréal, where she was a member of Quatuor Bozzini. Since 2014 she has resided in London (UK), where she regularly performs with ensembles such as Apartment House, Decibel, and the London Contemporary Orchestra Soloists, and is currently the Duncan Druce Scholar in Music Performance at the University of Huddersfield. Mira is the recipient of the 2016 Virginia Parker Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts. The prize is awarded annually to a Canadian musician in recognition of their contribution to the artistic life in Canada and internationally." ^ Hide Bio for Mira Benjamin • Show Bio for Bridget Carey "Bridget Carey studied jointly at the Royal Academy of Music and London University and has pursued a varied freelance career based in London, and has developed a particular reputation in the field of new music. For 15 years she premiered new chamber opera for the Almeida, whilst working in dance scores with Siobhan Davies and Rambert companies, classical contemporary with Opus 20 and Music Projects/London and new complexity with Ensemble Expose. From 1995-2005 she was viola player with the Kreutzer string quartet. More recently, her chamber music interests include Okeanos and the RPS award-winning experimental music group Apartment House, with whom she continues to add to her chamber music discography. She has been a member of Britten Sinfonia for the last 20 years, and is a regular guest with London Sinfonietta and BCMG, among others." ^ Hide Bio for Bridget Carey • Show Bio for Mark Knoop "London based pianist and conductor Mark Knoop is known for his fearless performances and individual interpretations. He has commissioned and premièred countless new works and worked with many respected composers including Michael Finnissy, Joanna Bailie, Bryn Harrison, Bernhard Lang, Matthew Shlomowitz, Jennifer Walshe and Steven Kazuo Takasugi. His versatile technique and virtuosity also brings fresh approaches to the standard and 20th-century repertoire. Mark performs regularly throughout Europe, the United Kingdom and Australia and in New Zealand, South Korea, Mongolia, United States of America, Canada and at festivals including Transit (Leuven), Ultima (Oslo), Huddersfield, London Contemporary Music Festival, Borealis (Bergen), Spor (Århus), Athelas (Copenhagen), and MaerzMusik (Berlin). He performs with various ensembles including Plus-Minus (London/Brussels) and Apartment House (London), and has conducted EXAUDI (London), Scenatet (Denmark), and London Sinfonietta. His recordings of music by John Cage, Richard Beaudoin, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Peter Ablinger, and David Lumsdaine have been critically acclaimed." ^ Hide Bio for Mark Knoop • Show Bio for Simon Limbrick "Simon Limbrick's involvement in music embraces performance, composing and education.
He was a member of the cult systems orchestra The Lost Jockey and Man Jumping, recording for EG Editions and creating scores for leading dance companies, Second Stride, London Contemporary Dance, Rosemary Lee and Sue MacLennan. He has been in demand as a percussionist performing all over the world with the Nash Ensemble, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Endymion Ensemble, Composers' Ensemble and Fibonacci Sequence as well as recording with artists such as Alabama3, Gavin Bryars Pete Lockett and for Blue Note Records. He has been guest principal with the LSO and worked under conductors, Leonard Bernstein, Oliver Knussen, Simon Rattle and Tom Ades. He has featured on film and television including documentaries about Steve Reich and Kenneth MacMillan's award winning Judas Tree.Compositions created for him include works by Javier Alvarez, Brian Elias (Kenneth MacMillan's last ballet The Judas Tree), Vic Hoyland and Andrew Poppy. He has performed the world-premieres of solo pieces by James Dillon, Frederic Rzewski , Claude Vivier, Philip Cashian, Thea Musgrave, Harry de Wit, Howard Skempton, Michael Wolters and Ed Kelly. His solo performances have been broadcast by the BBC, RAI, Radio France, Dutch TV and radio. Recently, he performed his own concerto Bulls Yard and Stockhausen's Zyklus at the Sage, Gateshead,(see review) solo steel-pan in Brian Elias' Judas Tree at Royal Opera House, London, in 2010 and directed his mixed-media project, dot-machine, a web-based musical construction accessible on www.marimbo.com. He created a 24 hour long piece surfaces with the composer James Saunders, with financial assistance from the Arts Council of Great Britain and premiered at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 2011. In education, Simon has led workshops since 1982, and been a returning resident artist in festivals and organisations, including Blackheath Concert Halls, Aldeburgh Music, Sound It Out , Spitalfields Festival. Workshop projects have been led by him throughout Europe. As a fully-qualified teacher, he has led Music and Performing Arts in Secondary Schools for five years. He has led school and community projects for Aldeburgh Music. As Artistic Director, he helped establish In Harmony Norwich, creating mixed-ability orchestral pieces for professional and young student players. Until the School of Music closed in June 2014, he was Director of 'Musician in the Community' and 'Creative Leadership' courses at University of East Anglia.
As a composer, Simon has gained an MA in Electroacoustic Composition from City University and collaborated as a composer on a number of large scale works, including a project at Fort Dunlop, Birmingham, with Rosemary Lee and site-specific work with Dutch composer/sound sculptor Harry de Wit in Holland and Brussels.He has produced film scores for TV and film festivals and composed music for theatre productions at the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Companies. Groups he has created pieces for include Mary Wiegold's Songbook, Roger Heaton Group, Ensemble Bash, Network of Sparks, Endymion Ensemble, Richard Durrant, Ritmatic, Hooloo. The Brighton Youth Orchestra performed machina lumina , for string ensemble and vibraphone throughout 2009. His composition Machine for Living for Landesmusikrat/Splash was recorded at Deutschlandradio. He has produced recordings for wergo and others.Currently composing a large piece for jazz brass and marimba. He has created the CDs, Steam, Hooloo, Clean, Ritmatik, Dot-Machine, Hammer, Rise and Fall, , between and Relay, which are frequently broadcast and available on well-known download sites. NEW RELEASE of a double CD RELAY, of contemporary steel-pan music in Sept 2014. Sound Composer for the film 3 Church Walk by the director Emily Richardson premiered on 18th Oct 2014 at The London Festival, BFI, London." ^ Hide Bio for Simon Limbrick • Show Bio for Anton Lukoszevieze "Cellist Anton Lukoszevieze (born 1965 in the UK) is one of the most diverse performers of his generation and is notable for his performances of avant-garde, experimental and improvised music. Anton has given many performances at numerous international festivals throughout Europe and the USA (Maerzmusik, Donaueschingen, Wien Modern, GAS, Transart, Ultima, etc.etc.). He has also made frequent programmes and broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, Danish Radio, SR2, Sweden, Deutschland Rundfunk, WDR, Germany and ORT, Austria. Deutschlandfunk, Berlin produced a radio portrait of him in September, 2003. Anton has also performed concerti with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at the 2001 Aldeburgh festival and the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with many composers and performers including David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, Amnon Wolman, Pierre Strauch, Rytis Mazulis, Karlheinz Essl, Helmut Oehring, Christopher Fox, Philip Corner, Alvin Curran, Phill Niblock and Laurence Crane, He is unique in the UK through his use of the curved bow (BACH-Bogen), which he is using to develop new repertoire for the cello. From 2005-7 he was New Music Fellow at Kings College, Cambridge and Kettles Yard Gallery. Anton is the subject of four films (FoxFire Eins) by the renowned artist-filmmaker Jayne Parker. A new film Trilogy with compositions by Sylvano Bussotti, George Aperghis and Laurence Crane premieres at The London Film Festival, October 2008. In November will premiere a new hour long work by Christopher Fox for cello and the vocal ensemble Exaudi commissioned by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and will also present new solo works for cello and live electronics. Anton is also active as an artist, his work has been shown in Holland (Lux Nijmegen), CAC, Vilnius, Duisburg (EarPort), Austria, (Sammlung Essl), Wien Modern, The Slade School of Art, Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge Film Festival and Rational Rec. London. His work has been published in Musiktexte, Cologne, design Magazine and the book SoundVisions (Pfau-Verlag, Saarbrucken, 2005). Anton Lukoszevieze is founder and director of the ensemble Apartment House, a member of the radical noise group Zeitkratzer and recently made his contemporary dance debut with the Vincent Dance Company in Broken Chords, Dusseldorf." ^ Hide Bio for Anton Lukoszevieze • Show Bio for Gavin Morrison Gavin Morrison: "Flautist, West Ham fan, terrible golfer, lover of single malt and real ale." ^ Hide Bio for Gavin Morrison • Show Bio for Chihiro Ono "Japanese-born violinist Chihiro Ono use music as a tool to explore human abilities, link people and places, and open human beings' minds." ^ Hide Bio for Chihiro Ono • Show Bio for James Opstad "James Opstad is a United Kingdom bassist, composer and one third of duck-rabbit music." ^ Hide Bio for James Opstad • Show Bio for Heather Roche "Born in Canada, clarinetist Heather Roche trained in England, lived in Germany for 7 years and now lives in London. 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Six young composers were chosen out of 270 applicants to write new pieces, which were premiered in 2016. She is a fervent advocate of collaboration, and her PhD research at the University of Huddersfield (under the supervision of Dr. Philip Thomas) explored the nature of dialogue within performer-composer relationships. She has given workshops in instrumental technique and/or iPad use in performance all over Europe, for example in London, Munich and Copenhagen. Heather completed her Masters of Music (Orchestral Training) in 2006 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, studying under Joy Farrall and Laurent Ben Slimane, in addition to conducting with Sian Edwards. Following her degree she completed residencies with the International Ensemble Modern Academy, at IMPULS in Graz and with ensemble recherche in Freiburg, the Darmstadt Summer Courses 2008 and 2010 and the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Innsbruck, Austria. 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She is proud to have performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Britten-Pears Orchestra and brass ensembles, Arch Sinfonia, and at the BBC Proms with The Juilliard School and the Royal Academy of Music. Alongside exploring the symphonic repertoire, Rebecca is particularly interested in both baroque and contemporary music. She has further developed this enthusiasm through projects and performances with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Belsize Baroque, Academy of Ancient Music, and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, Apartment House, London Sinfonietta Academy, An Assembly, and the Echo Ensemble respectively. Rebecca graduated with a first class Master of Arts degree from the Royal Academy of Music in 2020, and prior to this, she also studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she received her Bachelor of Music Honours degree. She is extremely grateful to have been supported by Help Musicians UK, Countess of Munster Musical Trust, The Wolfson Foundation, The Craxton Memorial Trust and scholarships from both of her alma maters. Teaching also plays an important role in Rebecca's life, and as well as teaching privately, she also works for Music Education Islington, Enfield Music Service and participates in projects with Newham Music Service. Rebecca completed the LRAM teaching diploma at the Academy and is registered with the DBS update service. She also feels proud to have contributed towards a 100% pass rate for her student's' graded exams. Rebecca is passionate about discussing and raising awareness of mental health issues, and as such is training to become a qualified counsellor. She also co-hosts the podcast Things Musicians Don't Talk About, which aims to destigmatise conversations that are often considered taboo within the Arts. 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He completed a doctorate at the Royal College of Music where he studied piano with Andrew Ball and researched Performance practices of music for piano with electroacoustics. He has also dabbled with the other side, playing with bands Apopalyptics, Casiokids and Half-handed Cloud and the Welcome Wagon. Kerry also directs music at Grace Church Hackney (which meets in Hoxton), where they are happy to use ancient chants, traditional hymns and new works with choirs, bands, electronics, objects and the like." ^ Hide Bio for Kerry Yong • Show Bio for David Zucchi "Praised for his "urgently visceral" playing (TEMPO), London-based Canadian saxophonist David Zucchi enjoys a varied career as a performer of classical, contemporary, experimental, and improvised music, collaborating regularly across the UK, Europe, and Canada. David collaborates regularly with accordionist Iñigo Mikeleiz-Berrade (as the Mikeleiz-Zucchi Duo, winners of the 2021 ROSL Mixed Ensemble Prize), soprano Patricia Auchterlonie (as Honkus), Syzygy, Alex Paxton's Dream Musics ("The most joyous sound I've heard in ages" - New York Times), Ian Wadley (as Yesterday Shelf), Wynton Guess, and Ross K. He has been featured by Nonclassical, Arraymusic, the Composers Platform, Daylight Music (Union Chapel) and the Royal Overseas League, appears on recordings from NMC, Another Timbre, Birmingham Record Company, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM's The News Agents. Recent appearances as a soloist and chamber musician include the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, St. John's Smith Square, Cadogan Hall, London Contemporary Music Festival, Sounds Like This! Festival (Leeds), Verbier Festival (Switzerland), Vale de Cambra Music Festival (Portugal), the Glenn Gould Studio, and the Canadian High Commission in London. With a keen interest in the performance of contemporary and experimental music, David has premiered and been the dedicatee of many works by emerging and established composers, including Alex Paxton, Paolo Griffin, Roxanna Albayati, Robin Haigh, Adam Sherkin, Brian Elias, Caroline Bordignon, Christopher Fox, Michael Hughes, and Piyawat Louillarpprasert. He has appeared with leading UK contemporary music ensembles including Ensemble x.y, Explore Ensemble, Apartment House, and An assembly. He has given workshops and masterclasses in the UK and Canada, most recently at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where he lectured on the performance of contemporary music, and has delivered sessions on professional skills at the Royal College of Music. David was born in London (UK), and grew up in Toronto (Canada). He is a graduate of the Royal College of Music's Master's and Artist Diploma programmes, where he studied with Kyle Horch as an Edward and Helen Hague Scholar. Previously, David attended the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, where he studied saxophone with Wallace Halladay and composition with Alexander Rapoport. Upon graduating, he was awarded the William and Phyllis Waters Graduating Award, the Faculty's top graduating prize. David has attended the Universitée Européenne de Saxophone in Gap, France and was selected to participate in the London Sinfonietta Academy. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Huddersfield's CeReNeM, supported by the Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund's Belle Shenkman Award. David has received additional support from the Canada Council for the Arts, David and Marcia Beach Summer Study Award, the Women's Musical Club of Toronto, the William and Phyllis Waters Graduating Award from the University of Toronto, and the Sylva Gelber Music Foundation Award." ^ Hide Bio for David Zucchi
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Track Listing:
1. Quintessential 06:04
2. Sound Piece 08:26
3. Horse sings from cloud 07:23
4. From unknown silences 06:45
5. David Tudor 08:44
6. Peace / Tree, movement 1 04:36
7. Peace / Tree, movement 2 05:27
8. Peace / Tree, movement 3 05:16
9. Peace / Tree, movement 4 05:51
10. Peace / Tree, movement 5 06:14
11. Peace / Tree, movement 6 06:44
12. Peace / Tree, movement 7 07:32
13. Quintessential, alternative version 04:51
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