McLaughlin - we are environments for each other
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Label: Huddersfield Contemporary Records
Cat No: HCR33
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 26th April 2024
Contents
Works
in the unknown there is already a script for transcendencethe endless mobility of listening
we are environments for each other (trio)
Artists
Mira Benjamin (violin, electric violin)Zubin Kanga (piano, electromagnetic resonators)
Scott McLaughlin (live electronics)
Works
in the unknown there is already a script for transcendencethe endless mobility of listening
we are environments for each other (trio)
Artists
Mira Benjamin (violin, electric violin)Zubin Kanga (piano, electromagnetic resonators)
Scott McLaughlin (live electronics)
About
Here violin and piano eschew conventional chamber music idioms to conjure fluctuating, sustained drones. This record continues McLaughlin's long standing work with the idea of 'material indeterminacy', using the way an instrument responds in the hands of a performer to guide musical forms. In these pieces, music exists not as sequences of predetermined sounds but as sets of possibilities; areas of exploration for the performers to carefully unfold. Each recording on this record is just one possible realisation of the work, tightly bounded within an agreed soundworld, but with the possibility to take a different direction in the moment of any performance.
In the opening track, we are environments for each other [trio], the instruments are no longer texturally distinct, as the electric violin becomes part of a feedback system that resonates the strings of the piano, merging together in a manner that is at once a single entangled thing, and two competing inputs to a complex system. In the endless mobility of listening, the specially devised technique of 'drone-bowing' takes the re-tuned violin into a world of harmonics and noise, surrounded by ethereal electronic textures. Finally, in the unknown there is already a script for transcendence a recognisable piano sound acts as a bell-like refrain, although the piano's strings are mostly excited by an EBow, rather than by striking the keyboard, eliciting sustained, slowly-shifting textures.
we are environments for each other is a record that showcases McLaughlin's use of material indeterminacy to elicit compellingly original musical relationships, an exploration of sounds on the edge, of becoming nothing or more-than-one-thing.
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