ARTIST...: Peter Zinovieff & Lucy Railton
TITLE....: RFG Inventions for Cello and Computer
YEAR.....: 2020
LABEL....: PAN
CAT.NO...: PAN90
GENRE....: Electronic
TIME.....: 35:00
SIZE.....: 80.15 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2020/02/21
WEBSITE..: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/?id=B4zmxtoffmvrfilmvoed2fcfnv4
TRACKLIST
01) (35:00) RFG Inventions for Cello and Computer
æRFG Inventions for Cello and ComputerÆ is a steeply adventurous, highly structured
and rewarding electro-acoustic collaboration between pioneering British/Russian
inventor and engineer Peter Zinovieff and preeminent cellist Lucy Railton.Æ
The collaboration is notably issued as Peter ZinovieffÆs first album and also becomes
the follow-up to Lucy RailtonÆs acclaimed solo debut æParadise 94Æ. It finds
Zinovieff, co-founder of LondonÆs influential EMS Synthesizer company and owner of
the worldÆs first home computer, using custom computer software to create and
orchestrate a ôsoftö version of RailtonÆs vast instrumental vocabulary, modelled from
a large series of cello improvisations inspired by objects such as an Egyptian
figure, pots, and old computer boards, as well as tales of pre-revolution Russia from
his Grandfather. Railton added solo cello to the manipulated results, before these
quasi-improvisations were recombined into the workÆs filigree matrix during final
co-production with members of ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Initially conceived as a live project and performed at festivals including Norberg,
Atonal, Rewire and FAQ between 2016-2017, the final 33 minute recording thrillingly
sustains the duelling, visceral tension and unpredictability of their live shows in
its brute scrapes across 17 variated sections. But, with the ability to
unstitch/embroider sounds outside the strictures of real-time live performance, the
resulting structure is confoundingly labyrinthine, assiduously swerving the prosaic
and sentimental in pursuit of explorative, emotively in/human expressions of
complexity and unpredictability in a manner that has always been key to the ideals of
experimental music.
In effect, the pair speak as one through an electro acoustic prism in a symbiotic,
syncretic process of transformation. Railton is here the catalyst for some of
ZinovieffÆs definitive work in a career spanning 60 years. Her performances provide a
radical variable û a sort of spirit in the machine û which is diffused, inverted and
scattered by Zinovieff using various software applications, so that Railton plays
around herself like a fractal mise-en-abyme, cutting her warped image to ribbons in a
double refraction of the ôrealö, the instrumental, and its virtual allegory. In this
(un)common, metaphoric language and poly-temporal syntax, they incisively speak to
ideas of an uncanny valley of perception between the haptic and the intangible,
conducting an absorbing dialogue that transcends and bends the story of avant-garde
and electronic music in beguiling, free fashion.
Releases February 21, 2020
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