Illean - arcing, stilling, bending, gathering
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Label: NMC Recordings
Cat No: NMCD264
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 7th June 2024
Contents
Artists
Aura Go (piano)Emma McGrath (violin)
Tilman Robinson (electronics)
David Zucchi (soprano saxophone)
Juliet Fraser (soprano)
Michael Acker (electronics)
GBSR Duo
Australian National Academy of Music
Explore Ensemble
Experimentalstudio des SWR
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
David RobertsonWorks
A through-grown earthLand's End
Tiding II (silentium)
arcing, stilling, bending, gathering
Artists
Aura Go (piano)Emma McGrath (violin)
Tilman Robinson (electronics)
David Zucchi (soprano saxophone)
Juliet Fraser (soprano)
Michael Acker (electronics)
GBSR Duo
Australian National Academy of Music
Explore Ensemble
Experimentalstudio des SWR
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
David RobertsonAbout
The album opens with the title work performed by the Australian National Academy of Music. Scored for piano, a string ensemble divided into smaller 'satellite' groups, and pre- recorded electronic sound, the piece uses a 'non-tempered' tuning system, aiming to give a sound that is 'plain, quotidian, and sometimes fragile' (Illean). The composer describes this piece as 'a very personal contemplation of the moments of kinship and tenderness that balance the immensity of the world we inhabit'.
Tiding II (silentium) is the second in a collection of Illean's pieces dealing with elemental patterns. George Barton (percussion), Siwan Rhys (piano), and David Zucchi (saxophone) bring to life transient sheets of sound, ebbing and flowing with the tides, the tension between fluidity and precision never far from the surface.
Soprano Juliet Fraser joins Explore Ensemble for A through-grown earth, a darkly intimate setting of the highly personal poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Again using non-tempered tuning and pre-recorded sound - this time an eerie chorus of retuned zithers - Illean worked very closely with Fraser, who has been dubbed 'one of those singular voices of a generation' (VAN Magazine), to create music that explores the subtle extremities of the voice.
New realms of quietitude are found in the work which employs the largest forces - Land's End, played by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Inspired by detailed pencil drawings of windswept landscapes by Latvian-American artist Vija Celmins, sound is suggested, whispered, inviting us to lean forward, so that 'the experience of the piece is to be found as much within the listener as the sounds that I have organised' (Illean).
'A tantalisingly beautiful piece, it consist[s] of the quietest wisps and traceries of sound that forever seem to just hang in the air. It keeps one's concentration on a knife-edge.' - In-review
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