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re-sound

re-sound's first, self-titled album gathers chamber works by John Cage and five Australian composers – Brendan Colbert, Paul Moulatlet, Ken Murray, Thomas Reiner and Harvey Sollberger – in a programme of late twentieth-century sound.

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  • CatalogueMCD 255

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8 works

  1. 1 SEVEN John Cage
  2. 2 Agite Brendan Colbert
  3. 3 Septet Thomas Reiner
  4. 4 Bash Ken Murray
  5. 5 Spiel Brendan Colbert
  6. 6 Sunflowers Harvey Sollberger
  7. 7 Chamber Work #2 Paul Moulatlet
  8. 8 Grace Notes Thomas Reiner

Eight tracks chart a sonic journey through the music of our time: new sound worlds that challenge conventional ideas of what music can be. The disc is not “easy listening”, yet its uncompromising directness and sensual colour give it an immediate pull. Intellectual deliberation is not required; the range of timbres and unusual forms can draw any attentive ear.

The most substantial work is John Cage's late SEVEN, a slow, almost static meditation for seven chamber instruments. Brendan Colbert's flute solo Agite follows – fast, agitated and played with audible drive by Melanie Chilianis. Thomas Reiner, the group's artistic director, contributes Septet, built on harsh dissonances and irregular rhythms. Guitarist Ken Murray both writes and plays Bash, mixing popular and classical techniques into vivid gestures. Colbert's trio Spiel weaves flute, violin and guitar into a shifting web of sound. Harvey Sollberger's Sunflowers sets flute (and alto flute) against vibraphone in a warm, elegant dialogue, before Paul Moulatlet's fragile, expressive Chamber Work #2.

Reiner's clarinet solo Grace Notes closes the programme at its most radical: silences, soft short gestures and sustained tones that seem to live on their own. Beyond the individual pieces, the album documents re-sound's work between 1996 and 1999.

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re-sound

ensemble

re-sound has established itself as one of Australia's most progressive contemporary music ensembles. Its thought-provoking, challenging and dynamic performances explore the sounds of our time across a wide range of genres, styles, and performance contexts.

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John Cage

composer

John Cage’s prepared-piano Sonatas and Interludes turn the instrument into a gamelan of pings, thuds and quiet resonance. His late chamber piece SEVEN is a slow, almost static meditation; Dream floats in mellow sustained colour.

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Brendan Colbert

composer

Brendan Colbert was born in Ballarat, Victoria, in 1956. After moving to Melbourne in the 1970s he worked with progressive-rock bands as keyboard player and songwriter, and in the 1980s studied composition with Brenton Broadstock and Riccardo Formosa.

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Paul Moulatlet

composer

Paul Moulatlet is a Melbourne-based Australian composer of contemporary chamber and electro-acoustic music. His works have been performed across Australia and in England, Italy, Norway and the USA.

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Ken Murray

composer

Ken Murray (b. 1968) is a Melbourne guitarist and composer working across classical and electric guitar in contemporary chamber music.

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Thomas Reiner

composer

Artistic Director of the ensemble re-sound, Thomas Reiner has received numerous awards for his compositions, including second prize in the International Witold Lutosławski Composers' Competition for Two Movements for Orchestra, the Dorian Le Gallienne Award, and the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award.

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Harvey Sollberger

composer

Harvey Sollberger is a composer whose chamber piece Sunflowers sets flute and alto flute against vibraphone in a warm, elegant dialogue.

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$25.00 AUD
Category
Australian
Genres
Contemporary Classical, Experimental
Musical work copyright
© Move Records
Sound recording copyright
℗ Move Records
Catalogue
MCD 255
EAN
9314574025521

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