Phantom Images
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Label: Huddersfield Contemporary Records
Cat No: HCR17CD
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 18th May 2018
Contents
Artists
Katherine Young (bassoon)Chris Mercer (multi-instrumentalist)
Charmaine Lee (vocals)
Sam Pluta (electronics)
Aaron Cassidy (electronics)
Works
I, for example, ...Phantom Image
quarks (Charmaine Lee & Sam Pluta)
For Daphne and Delia II
Artists
Katherine Young (bassoon)Chris Mercer (multi-instrumentalist)
Charmaine Lee (vocals)
Sam Pluta (electronics)
Aaron Cassidy (electronics)
About
Katherine Young is one of the leading voices of her generation, a composer whose work often defies categorisation, floating between the worlds of performance, technology, composition, and installation. Here we see her at her most spare and unadorned—a bassoon and a collection of effects pedals—but from that setup she conjures an unexpected fluttering, sputtering, clicking landscape, overlaid with trumpet-like fanfares and wincing cries. Chris Mercer, likewise, is an artist whose work is difficult to pigeonhole, shifting between acoustic ecology, invented instruments, and interactive technologies. But here Mercer has written... an orchestra piece. But this is no ordinary orchestra piece. Mercer plays all 46 instruments, and as a result this orchestra can do things that orchestras shouldn't be able to do. Cellos spontaneously morph into clarinets. Brass instruments sprout their own woodwind doublings. Brass players seem equipped with an enormous array of mutes and plungers. Pianos move seamlessly between sixth-tones and quarter-tones as though the instruments were being retuned mid-performance.
The third track features Charmaine Lee, an extraordinary improvising vocalist whose unique soundworld is both augmented and lacerated through her partnership with Sam Pluta, one of the most inventive, original, and well-respected improvisers working in electronic music. Their contributions are twisted and entangled, flipping between vocal and instrumental, analog and digital, 'real' and 'processed', flamboyant and intimate. Finally, Aaron Cassidy, a composer best known for his bodily, choreographic approaches to instruments and notation, presents his first purely electronic work to be released on record. Despite its digital materials, this is still visceral music. The result of a series of electronic, politically charged improvisations recorded in the early months of 2017, this work is raucous, unruly, volatile, and defiant.
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