Artist : Nico Muhly
Album : I Drink The Air Before Me
Year : 2010
Genre : Instrumental
Quality : 222kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 53m
Size : 89.17mb
Label : Bedroom Community
Catalognr : B0014742-02
Tracklist:
01. Fire Down Below 6:09
02. First Storm 1:03
03. Salty Dog 6:58
04. Varied Carols 7:31
05. Music Under Pressure 1 - Flute 3:04
06. Music Under Pressure 2 - Piano 3:32
07. Jagged Pulses 2:05
08. Music For Boys 2:48
09. Music For Gino 2:52
10. Music Under Pressure 3 - Ensemble 8:32
11. Storm Center 3:35
12. One Day Tells Its Tale To Another 5:11
Releasenotes:
"I Drink the Air Before Me is an evening-length score for Stephen Petronio's
dance piece bearing the same name. Inasmuch as it was celebrating Stephen's
company's 25th anniversary, the piece wanted to be big, ecstatic, and
celebratory. Our initial meeting, in which we discussed the structure of the
work, yielded a sketch: a giant line, starting at the lower left hand side of a
napkin, and ending in the upper right. Start small, get big! The rules: a
children's choir should begin and end the piece. The work should relate to the
weather: storms, anxiety, and coastal living. A giant build-up should land us
inside the center of a storm, with whirling, irregular, spiral-shaped music and
irregular, spiral-shaped dancing. Using these rules, I divided up the piece
into a series of episodes all hinging around spiral-shaped constellations of
notes. These are most audible in Music Under Pressure 3, and least audible when
they are absent, in the diatonic, almost plainchant music that the choir sings
at the end, the text of which comes from Psalm 19:
One day tells its tale to another,
and one night imparts knowledge to another.
Although they have no words or language,
and their voices are not heard,
Their sound has gone out into all lands,
and their message to the ends of the world.
I wanted the ensemble to be a little quirky community of people living by the
edge of the sea: a busybody flute, a wise viola, and the masculine, workmanlike
bassoon, trombone, and upright bass. The piano acts as an agitator, an
unwelcome visitor, bearing with it aggressive electronic noises and rhythmic
interruptions. "
Nico Muhly
http://nicomuhly.bandcamp.com