Designed by Daniel Flodin and Jesper Canell, the artist's book features documentation from Ash Fure's immersive performances, commentary by the composer, an interview with Sound American editor Nate Wooley, and contributions from Zachary Woolfe (New York Times), Steve Smith (New Yorker), and others.
Includes unlimited streaming of Something To Hunt
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Designed by Daniel Flodin and Jesper Canell, the artist's book features documentation from Ash Fure's immersive performances, commentary by the composer, an interview with Sound American editor Nate Wooley, and contributions from Zachary Woolfe (New York Times), Steve Smith (New Yorker), and others.
Includes unlimited streaming of Something To Hunt
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 8 days
edition of 500
Purchasable with gift card
$30USDor more
about
Soma is the second in a series of works engaging a specific psychological referent: my grandmother, who has advanced Parkinson’s Disease. Instruments act out the disconnect her sickness causes between psychological intent and physical execution. Aberrations in placement, pressure, angle, force, and speed distort instrumental technique and interrupt the correlation between effort and audibility. With the syntax of movement scrambled, even the simplest of sounds turn fragile and chaotic. In Soma, instrumental bodies act as landscapes across which the limbs and fingers of performers must crawl.
Soma was commissioned by the Alice and Harry Eiler Foundation on receipt of the Staubach Honorarium. It was premiered by Curious Chamber Players at the 2012 Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music, where it received a Stipendienpreis.
credits
from Something To Hunt,
released October 30, 2020
International Contemporary Ensemble
Carlos Aguilar - piccolo
Campbell MacDonald - bass clarinet
Nathan Davis and Ross Karre - percussion
Cory Smythe - piano
Mariel Roberts - cello
David Fulmer - conductor
My humanities professor showed me this piece and i cannot stop coming back to it. Something deep and alluring of this piece keeps me wanting more. Absolutely one of my favorite cuts from last year. Ra!
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