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Falzone - A Curving Abacus
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Label: New World Records
Cat No: NW80842
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 21st June 2024
Contents
Artists
Arditti QuartetElision Ensemble
Ostrava New Orchestra
Ostravska Banda
Switch~ Ensemble
Conductors
Jason Thorpe BuchananPetr Kotik
Owen Underhill
Works
A Curving AbacusA Tension Span
Metamerism
Punctuated Equilibrium
Zipf's Law IV
Artists
Arditti QuartetElision Ensemble
Ostrava New Orchestra
Ostravska Banda
Switch~ Ensemble
Conductors
Jason Thorpe BuchananPetr Kotik
Owen Underhill
About
A half-century later, the music of James Peter Alfonse Falzone (b. 1986) might initially be viewed through a Process/Ambient stereoscopic lens, but the five works collected here certainly do not run by themselves, and they are anything but ignorable. Composed between 2017 and 2023, these compositions - each possessing its own bespoke generative system - provide a listener with immersive sonic environments that are beautiful and engaging upon first hearing, but also offer significant intellectual reward to those who choose to listen closer and dig deeper. Attentive engagement with these works reveals complex worlds filled with beautiful contradictions: the music is discernably mechanised, but never obvious or predictable; the overall aesthetic is highly experimental, but the resulting sounds feel organic and natural; these pieces are distinctly cerebral, but often feel instinctual. One hears little if any of the jazzy diatonic bounce common to many compositions of Reich, and there is only occasional and far-removed resemblance to Eno's characteristic pandiatonic harmonic clouds. A listener is in fact far more likely to be reminded of the highly-patterned rhythmic and harmonic designs of Olivier Messiaen, or - going back a few centuries - the intricate clockwork constructions of Johannes Ockeghem. It is perhaps not insignificant that both Messiaen and Ockeghem frequently performed in churches, where stone surfaces and cavernous spaces allow sounds to ring and intermingle in a warm glow. Falzone, whose instrumental training includes pipe organ, often favours similarly reverberant sonic environments, where atmospheres of echo and reflection are created through the use of bell-like percussion instruments, resonant timbres, and long note-values.
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