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physical CD: August 30st 2011
modified
music for bassoon
modified _ music for bassoon
The concept of this album is inspired by a piece written for me by Gene Pritsker.
In the liner notes to his composition Modified #3, Gene writes:
The concept of the piece is the modification and expansion of sound. Its the future of what can be done electronically with timbre, in this piece the timbre of the bassoon. I want to create a full composition from one sound, a sound that is manipulated transformed into many sounds. The future of music can be; imagination stretched through limits.
Based on Genes idea of experimenting with timbre, I put together this album with music composed for bassoon solos and duos, as well as music with electronics. This album explores a multitude of different sound possible on the bassoon, a quasi-jaunt through the various timbres of this instrument.
This jaunt starts in Rio de Janeiro in the 1930s, when Villa-Lobos merged Choro-style and Bachs music into his Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6 for flute and bassoon. The three solo pieces by Till A. Körber, Christof Cech and David Lang each push the boundaries of bassoon playing in their own unique way.
The meditative sound waves in Seismografische Reflexion, the groovy shifting of rhythms in New Waves and the simple idea of pressing and releasing of the bassoonists fingers in Press Release challenge both the listener and the performer.
The relaxed conversation between bassoon and double bass in Low Agenda by Gernot Wolfgang brings up a certain laissez-faire feeling with its swinging bass-lines.
Mizar A & Mizar B, a composition by Johannes Berauer with a human voice part by Philipp Sageder, leads to sophisticated soundscapes and rhythms in a Trio with bassoon and bass clarinet.
Gene Pritskers Modified #3 blurs the sound of prerecorded (and strongly mutated) bassoon sounds with a virtuoso live bassoon part into a conclusion and a suggestion where music for bassoon could possibly go.
Musicians:
Matthias Kronsteiner-Bassoon
Lisa Preimesberger-Bass Clarinet
Thomas Frey-Flute
Ernst Weissensteiner- Double Bass
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasileiras No.6
Aria (Choro)
Fantasia
Till Alexander Körber
Seismografische Reflexion
Christof Cech
New Waves
Gernot Wolfgang
Low Agenda
David Lang
Press Release
Johannes Berauer/Philipp Sageder
Mizar A
Mizar B
Gene Pritsker
Modified #3
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