Michael Winter - Lower Limit
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Label: New World Records
Cat No: NW80798
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 2nd March 2018
Contents
Works
Chorale and Finely Tuned ResonatorsLower Limit
Mass and Band
Necklaces (with Quieting Rooms)
Necklaces
Artists
Elliot SimpsonChaz Underriner
Cristian Alvear
Vicente Araya
Works
Chorale and Finely Tuned ResonatorsLower Limit
Mass and Band
Necklaces (with Quieting Rooms)
Necklaces
Artists
Elliot SimpsonChaz Underriner
Cristian Alvear
Vicente Araya
About
Winter leaves room for unanticipated results by keeping things open, notably in the instrumentation, which, rather than specifying instruments, tends to designate certain properties such as “plucked strings,” or “sustaining instruments.”
In this way, each performance offers a different manifestation of the same underlying structure. For Winter, beauty is the experience of something new, and to experience something new is to evolve. Even though he allows for a great many possibilities, the recordings here evince a highly tuned aesthetic filter. All of the five works included in this collection use plucked string instruments (guitar, virginal, and harp) and pure tones (ebowed guitar and pure tones). Together, they form a metacomposition, bound together by two versions of Necklaces. The titles describe the processes that form each work: Necklaces represents picking patterns with aperiodic necklaces (strings of data with specific constraints of rotational and symbolic permutation), and in Mass and Band a constraint akin to a band pass filter is applied to an Ockeghem mass. Likewise, in Chorale and Finely Tuned Resonators, instruments resonate the harmonics of a chorale, and Quieting Rooms makes use of phase cancellation to quiet a room. The title of the piece Lower Limit refers to Winter’s intention to use the smallest amount of code possible - in other words, to find the lower limit for programming a composition. This idea, in fact, applies to all of the pieces here, since all are concerned with how to express ideas in a maximally efficient way.
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