Underwater Princess Waltz: A Collection of One-Page Pieces
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Label: New World Records
Cat No: NWR80748
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 18th November 2013
Contents
Works
Time goes byDecember 1952
Her waltzing with her
Underwater Princess Waltz
Mayhem (the arrow)
Mayhem (the blade)
Mayhem (the hammer)
Gauss Cannon
The red and white cows
Round round down
tween (k-food #2)
Burdocks
Artists
Zwerm Guitar QuartetWorks
Time goes byDecember 1952
Her waltzing with her
Underwater Princess Waltz
Mayhem (the arrow)
Mayhem (the blade)
Mayhem (the hammer)
Gauss Cannon
The red and white cows
Round round down
tween (k-food #2)
Burdocks
Artists
Zwerm Guitar QuartetAbout
The "one-page piece" - a written-down musical composition that fits on a single piece of paper - is appealing to a group like the Belgian/Dutch electric guitar quartet Zwerm.
Zwerm and their collaborators took full advantage of the opportunity to create their own scores out of the one-page pieces, to allow their own creativity and compositional ideas to run free, to explore interesting sound worlds, and to seek out possible links between the pieces.
These positive experiences are inherent to the format of the one-page piece: a composer provides a musical idea, in traditional notation, prose, graphics, or some combination of all three; sometimes this idea is rough or conceptual, sometimes more clear in its musical content and process. The rest is up to the musicians. Collaborative brainstorming is necessary, and many ideas might be tried out before settling on a particular way of realizing the piece; often, the possibilities seem endless, limited only by one's conventional training, adherence to idiomatic instrumental techniques, and musical sensibilities. This collaborative brainstorming works best when the ensemble is made up of adventurous musicians who trust each other.
One-page pieces fall into the category of process pieces. With roots in the history of American experimental music, both process pieces and one-page pieces are sometimes traced back to Terry Riley's minimalist masterpiece 'In C' of 1964.
The recordings on this CD represent a crossover project in which Zwerm looks for connections between the sound worlds of blues, free improvisation, experimental rock, noise, minimalism and many other contemporary musical ideas.
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