Listen & tracks
1 of 8 tracks have a preview · 7 works · 53:10
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1 canal Steve Adam 7:26
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2 quintet/sextet for chamber group and CD Thomas Reiner 10:37
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3 breath stain Melanie Chilianis 5:03
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4 HybriD Steve Adam 10:53
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5 aerofoil Thomas Reiner 6:38
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6 Vectors Paul Moulatlet 5:22
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7 ephemeral densities Thomas Reiner 7:11
All but one of these works were presented in March 2004 to a capacity audience at Pony, a night club in Melbourne's inner city. The response encouraged the group to make this recording.
canal builds on a processed drum pattern from a drum ensemble, drum samples, simple chord progressions, and site recordings made in Venice and Florence in 2003.
Quintet/sextet for chamber group and CD sets atonal chamber writing against recorded materials, again drawing on Florence and Venice site samples.
breath stain treats varied sound sources as raw material for construction and transformation. re-sound performers play clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, violin and flute; non-instrumental sounds include a walk in inner-city Melbourne and crickets in Somers, Victoria. An electro-acoustic environment exposes the relationship between breath, musical gesture and those non-instrumental sounds.
HybriD is a collaborative work for multiple acoustic instruments with live computer processing and synthesis. Performance data from each player is merged so that the resulting sounds become hybrids of those influences.
aerofoil features a bouncy synth-bass loop, tape delay on hi-hat rhythms, ambient gestures of slowly undulating pitches, an up-beat pizzicato-style melodic motive, and a bell-like high-pitch texture.
Vectors works from an ordered set of pitches and its variants; the original set governs the relationships among them.
ephemeral densities explores changes of texture and sound colour from four sound objects: a synthesised cricket-like chirp, a busy sonic artefact captured on MiniDisc in Victoria's Grampians, a very low bass sound, and a metallic drum loop.
Artists
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.
Melanie Chilianis
composer
Melanie Chilianis is an Australian flautist and composer whose electroacoustic and acoustic work moves between performance, installation and recorded sound.
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.
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.
Steve Adam
composer
Steve Adam writes and performs electroacoustic music where live instruments meet computer processing, synthesis and the pulse of popular electronics. His HybriD and collaborative works with re-sound fuse chamber colour with realtime digital sound.
Performers
- re-sound · ensemble
- Melanie Chilianis · flute · tracks 2–4 and 6
- Helen Eadie · violin · tracks 2, 4 and 6
- Catherine Hocking · tenor saxophone · tracks 2, 4 and 6
- Darren Howard · b-flat clarinet · tracks 2, 4 and 6
- Paul Todd · bass clarinet · tracks 2, 4 and 6
- Steve Adam · computer · track 1
- Thomas Reiner · computer · tracks 1, 5 and 7
Technical credits
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Producer
Thomas Reiner
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Recording Engineer
Martin Wright
Vaughan McAlley
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Mixing Engineer
Melanie Chilianis (track 3)
Steve Adam (tracks 1 and 4)
Thomas Reiner (tracks 5 and 7)
Vaughan McAlley (tracks 2 and 6)
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Mastering Engineer
Martin Wright
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Venue
Move Records Studio (tracks 2 and 6)
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Thanks to
Arts Faculty of Monash University
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 53 minutes 10 seconds
- Release date
- 15 Mar 2005
- Category
- Australian
- Musical work copyright
- © 2005 re-sound
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 2005 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3295
- EAN
- 9314574329520
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