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: Artist......: Christopher Whitley
: Album.......: Describe Yourself :
: Label.......: Redshift Music .. .:.. .
Genre.......: Avantgarde :
Catnr.......: TK529 .
' Source......: CD ,
; Rip.date....: 2023-09-24
Str.date....: 2023-06-23
Quality.....: 230kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :..
.:. Url.........: http://www.christopherwhitleyviolin.com '
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1. Bellatrix 8:33
2. Don't Throw Your Head in Your Hands 7:42
3. Describe Yourself 5:50
4. Patterns in High Places - i. determination 2:39
5. Patterns in High Places - ii. chant 4:18
6. Patterns in High Places - iii. libre! 1:44
7. Six Tableaux for Violin i. 1:00
8. Six Tableaux for Violin ii. 1:03
9. Six Tableaux for Violin iii. 0:57
10. Six Tableaux for Violin iv. 0:49
11. Six Tableaux for Violin v. 0:49
12. Six Tableaux for Violin vi. 0:56
13. In Bruniquel Cave 8:09
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,: Canadian violinist and composer Christopher Whitley has already :,
: produced several albums featuring his own spellbinding music on :
:' beloved imprints such as Patient Sounds and Fluid Audio. ':
,: However Describe Yourself, for Vancouver's Redshift Records, :,
: marks his frst recorded foray as an interpreter. These varied :
:' sessions feature him performing on a violin built by fabled ':
,: luthier Antonio Stradivari's from 1700, and although Whitley :,
: also performs music from that same era, his choice of music here :
:' is a far cry from standard repertoire. ':
,: :,
: Instead, the album is something both highly personal and :
:' contemporary. The artists involved are all very much living, ':
,: and also happen to be Canadian, however what's intriguing about :,
: his curatorial approach here is how it refects the eclectic, :
:' unorthodox, and inquisitive spirit found in his other body of ':
,: work. :,
: :
:' Some of Describe Yourself's cast includes composers who are ':
,: well-established within the concert music world. Over the past :,
: two decades the breathtakingly inventive (Sydney Times Herald) :
:' Nicole Lize e has been developing an unmistakeable approach ':
,: that stems from her fascination with outmoded, well-worn :,
: technology. She has honed her disorienting soundworld through :
:' support from commissioners that include the Kronos Quartet, ':
,: Carnegie Hall, the New York Philharmonic, the BBC Proms, Eve :,
: Egoyan, and Bang On Can. In its unique exploration of :
:' technology, her music embraces the sounds that its subject ':
,: matter produce on purpose as well as their sonic byproducts, :,
: both of which she carefully notates and integrates into live :
:' performance. She also frequently addresses the cultural ':
,: dimension of these technologies as well, especially through :,
: savvily re-contextualized references to other music. The :
:' wondrous results of her technique can be heard here on "Don't ':
,: Throw Your Head In Your Hands," a 2020 piece where she employs :,
: old karaoke tapes manipulated with a Tascam 4-track cassette :
:' recorder and an array of unorthodox tactics. ':
,: :,
: Vancouver-based Jeffrey Ryan's widely acclaimed body of work has :
:' won him several awards, global broadcasts, and given rise to ':
,: collaborations with celebrated ensembles such as the Cleveland :,
: Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Penderecki :
:' Quartet, the Gryphon Trio, Nordic Voices, and the Vancouver ':
,: Symphony Orchestra where he was their Composer-in-Residence from :,
: 2002 to 2007 and Composer Laureate from 2008 to 2009. His work :
:' "Bellatrix", opens the disc on a bold note and blends cunning ':
,: virtuosic writing and vocalization on the part of the violinist. :,
: Whitley's engaging sleevenotes describe his journey with the :
:' piece, particularly his trepidation around its use of ':
,: voice something you'd never detect in his extrovert performance :,
: of it. :
:' ':
,: The album's hushed fnal cut comes from Fjo la Evans, a :,
: Canadian/Icelandic cellist and composer also residing in the :
:' United States. As she amusingly states in her bio: "autocorrect ':
,: describes her work as a texturing fog" and this strangely :,
: evocative phrase is more than applicable to "In Bruniquel Cave", :
:' a delicate multitracked work that layers Whitley's whispered ':
,: violin playing over itself. Winner of the 2017 Robert Fleming :,
: Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts, Evans has had her :
:' work presented and performed by cellist Maya Fridman, Gaudeamus ':
,: Music Week, Toronto's Music Gallery, Bearthoven, India Gailey, :,
: Le poisson rouge and other notable artists and organizations. :
:' ':
,: Meanwhile, some of the other contributors to Describe Yourself, :,
: have achieved renown in other musical and artistic domains. :
:' Leslie Ting's unique practice combines her specialized ':
,: backgrounds as a classical violinist and former practicing :,
: optometrist within a theatrical framework. Her defnitive work, :
:' Speculation, fetched multiple award nominations, including the ':
,: Pauline McGibbon Award for Emerging Theatre Director (2021). :,
: Ting's audacious contribution here, the album's titular work, :
:' also implicates musical and ocular concerns. This duo piece, ':
,: made to be played via the Zoom platform, pairs violin material :,
: that is that is specifcally designed to interact with Zoom's :
:' audio processing algorithm with a spoken element derived from ':
,: the practice of self-audio description, whereby a person :,
: verbally describes their appearance for the beneft of blind or :
:' visually-impaired individuals. ':
,: :,
: Over the past several years Montre al's Kara-Lis Coverdale has :
:' garnered considerable recognition for her music which often ':
,: straddles the line between acoustic instrumentation and :,
: electronic abstraction. Said work is occasionally motivated by :
:' her various research interests her Masters thesis explored how ':
,: "reality" is constructed through sound design and recording :,
: technology and her music often examines such concerns. :
:' Coverdale's 2017 recording Grafts (Boomkat Editions) was named ':
,: an album of the year by outlets such as Noisey, Crack, Resident :,
: Advisor, and Tiny Mix Tapes. None other than the Guardian has :
:' described her as "a composer on the prowl, always questioning ':
,: herself and others." She is also a frequent collaborator of :,
: beloved electronic musician Tim Hecker. "Patterns in High :
:' Places," as this album's liner notes reveal, was created ':
,: specifcally for Whitley as a piece for him to play alone and :,
: connect with the violin's fundamental sounds. :
:' ':
,: Toronto's Evan J. Cartwright actively cultivates a diverse array :,
: of music interests. A gifted percussionist, and composer, his :
:' reflective LP debut as a singer-songwriter bit by bit was ':
,: released by Ide e Fixe in 2022 to various acclaim. Radio station :,
: WJCT said of it that "Cartwright could be our 21st century Chet :
:' Baker, replacing romanticized love affairs with realized ':
,: contemplations on time and the human condition, providing a :,
: soothing soundtrack to a midday examination of the space in :
:' which you exist." Cartwright has been heard behind the drum kit ':
,: with a vast range of different projects from Brodie West's :,
: exploratory jazz bands Eucalyptus, The Brodie West Quintet and :
:' the duo Ways, to the eccentric rock of U.S. Girls and Cola. ':
,: "Six Tableaus for Solo Violin" is a fascinating set of :,
: algorithmic electroacoustic vignettes fuelled by improvisation. :
:' They work in series: the playback of a recorded improvisation ':
,: is manipulated by the contours of the next as it is being :,
: recorded. :
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