Cassidy / Young / Mercer: Phantom Images
Cassidy / Young / Mercer: Phantom Images
Format: CD
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Artist: Cassidy / Young / Mercer
Label: Huddersfield Contemp
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5060217670156
Genre: Classical Artists
Phantom Images celebrates the intertwining of improvisation and electronics. It's four tracks present innovative approaches to instruments, novel deployment of electronic processing, and what might be the strangest 'orchestra' ever recorded. The album is at times serious, at times chaotic, at times sinister, but the underlying character is one of 'play': adventure, joy, exchange, even a certain mischievousness. Katherine Young is one of the leading voices of her generation, a composer whose work often defies categorization. Here we see her at her most spare and unadorned - a bassoon and a collection of effects pedals - but from that setup she conjures an unexpected landscape, overlaid with trumpet-like fanfares and wincing cries. Chris Mercer, likewise, is an artist whose work is difficult to pigeonhole, shifting between acoustic ecology, invented instruments, and interactive technologies. But here Mercer has written no ordinary orchestra piece. Mercer plays all 46 instruments, and as a result this orchestra can do things that orchestras shouldn't be able to do. Cellos spontaneously morph into clarinets. Brass instruments sprout their own woodwind doublings. Brass players seem equipped with an enormous array of mutes and plungers. Pianos move seamlessly between sixth-tones and quarter-tones as though the instruments were being retuned mid-performance. The third track features Charmaine Lee, an extraordinary improvising vocalist whose unique soundworld is both augmented and lacerated through her partnership with Sam Pluta, one of the most inventive, original, and well-respected improvisers working in electronic music. Finally, Aaron Cassidy, known for his bodily, choreographic approaches to instruments and notation, presents his first purely electronic work to be released. The result of a series of electronic, politically charged improvisations recorded in the early months of 2017, this work is raucous, unruly, volatile and defiant.
Tracks:
1.1 For Daphne and Delia II - Katherine Young
1.2 Phantom Image - Chris Mercer
1.3 Quarks - Charmaine Lee/Sam Pluta
1.4 I, for Example,... - Aaron Cassidy
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