Gavin Bryars - I Send You This Cadmium Red
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Label: GB Records
Cat No: BCGBCD06
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 5th April 2010
Contents
Artists
John Berger (speaking voice)John Christie (speaking voice)
James Woodrow (electric guitar)
Roger Heaton (bass clarinet)
Bill Hawkes (viola)
Melanie Pappenheim (voice)
Sophie Harris (cello)
Gavin Bryars (double bass, electric keyboard)
Works
I Send You This Cadmium RedThe Island Chapel
Artists
John Berger (speaking voice)John Christie (speaking voice)
James Woodrow (electric guitar)
Roger Heaton (bass clarinet)
Bill Hawkes (viola)
Melanie Pappenheim (voice)
Sophie Harris (cello)
Gavin Bryars (double bass, electric keyboard)
About
When the artist John Christie and Booker award-winning writer John Berger (‘Ways of Seeing’) decided to collaborate on a project, they didn’t know what it might be. From urban London, Christie sent Berger, in southern France, a square of colour, with a letter that ended with the sentence ‘I send you this cadmium red… ’. Berger replied, musing on this and other colours, thereby setting in motion an extensive correspondence that moved into meditations on the essence of individual colours, but ranging widely through poetry, art history, memory. This correspondence was eventually published as an elegant book and the CD retains the book’s episodic and varied non-narrative approach.
In this recording, originally made as a radio broadcast by Sony Award winning producer Paul Bennun, a selection of these letters is read by their authors, accompanied by original music by Gavin Bryars, who began to work with John Berger through their mutual friendship with the late Juan Muñoz. Performed by members of the Gavin Bryars Ensemble, the richly dark-toned music is designed to underline the colour themes in the texts - their texture, their atmosphere and their resonance.
In addition to the radiophonic work is The Island Chapel, which is alluded to in the Christie/Berger exchanges. This recording is of the first performance, in the tiny St Nicholas Chapel perched above the Tate and overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
Personnel:
I Send You This Cadmium Red
- John Berger and John Christie, speaking voices
- James Woodrow, electric guitar
- Roger Heaton, bass clarinet
- Bill Hawkes, viola
- Gavin Bryars, double bass
The Island Chapel
- Melanie Pappenheim, voice
- Sophie Harris, cello
- Gavin Bryars, electric keyboard
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