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Hennies - Motor Tapes
£28.45
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Label: New World Records
Cat No: NW80844
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Expected Release Date: 28th June 2024
Contents
Artists
ensemble 0Talea Ensemble
Ensemble Dedalus
Conductor
James BakerWorks
Clock DiesMotor Tapes
Zeitgebers
Artists
ensemble 0Talea Ensemble
Ensemble Dedalus
Conductor
James BakerAbout
Sarah Hennies (b. 1979) is a composer and percussionist whose work is concerned with a variety of musical, sociopolitical, and psychological issues including queer & trans identity, psychoacoustics, and the social and neurological conditions underlying creative thought.
The booklet for this, her second New World recording, features an extensive and wide-ranging conversation with the composer, wherein Hennies discusses her compositional practice and how these three pieces - all in some way related to brain activity, specifically mood disorders and circadian rhythm - represent an important step in the evolutionof her work.
"These works do signal a transformation. Up until Clock Dies, for instance, every piece I had written involved a stopwatch. But Talea Ensemble wanted a work with a conductor, and so Clock Dies was the first piece I made where I thought, 'Let's see if I can make chamber music.' So Clock Dies is through-composed; of course there's lots of repetition, there's a form with sections and climaxes-- things happen. There's a more traditional kind of contrast in Clock Dies and really in all three of these pieces. But Clock Dies specifically was the first piece where I challenged myself in a practical way to see if I could make 'normal' music.
"Motor Tapes is ... well, it came about in a similarly practical way, where because of when the commission [from Ensemble Dedalus] came and where it was being played, I had a long time to make it. And I really, really wanted to challenge myself to make something with a lot of detail, to work harder on something than I had in the past. There's a Word-doc outline of Motor Tapes that's pages long because it got so complicated. And finishing the last 20% was so challenging; it had become so unwieldy that I had to make a to-do list of tasks because I couldn't view it as a totality anymore. And now that it's done and I can see it as a whole, there's a very clear order of events, a script, it follows a very birth-to-death trajectory ..."
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