a r t i s t : Robin Hayward
t i t l e : Valve Division. Music For Solo Tuba
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Fringes 19
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : May/2006
t r a c k s : 03
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 50,7 MB
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First solo release by the Berlin-based tuba player.
"Though not specifically about the tuba, the three pieces
presented here reflect particular ways of regarding the
instrument. Whereas in the first two pieces, Dial and Coil, it
is viewed as a labyrinth of tubing within which air may be
trapped and redirected, in the final piece, Valve Division, it
is seen as a collection of individual tube lengths, tuned to
one another by positioning the valve slides in whole number
proportions to each other. Valves play an important role in
the first two pieces too, as it is through rotating them in
their sockets that the air becomes trapped - also a sort of
valve division, this time through 360 degrees. I also view
these pieces as a response to the question of what to do next,
which arose around the year 2000, after I had been part of
developing a specific approach to collective improvisation in
Berlin. From my perspective this had involved focusing on the
microscopic details of the sound itself through reducing other
elements, such as group interaction, to a minimum. I decided
to concentrate on composition while further developing the
playing techniques and sound materials I had been exploring in
such groups as Das Kreisen (with Burkhard Beins and Annette
Krebs) and roananax (with Axel Dorner, Annette Krebs and
Andrea Neumann). Abstract-narrative is the term that in my
opinion best describes the music that followed. While still
clearly informed by the preceding pure-sound aesthetic,
certain narrative elements have been introduced into it,
particularly involving the consideration of expectation and
surprise. Though this paradigm is perhaps most evident in Dial
and Coil, Valve Division shares an abstract-narrative
aesthetic in that the objective fact of the tubaÆs
unconventional tuning is gradually unfolded over the course of
the piece." (Robin Hayward)
Edition of 500 numbered copies in the usual Fringes oversized
cardboard sleeve.
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01-Dial [13:07]
02-Coil [07:48]
03-Valve Division [23:38]
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44:33 min