Artist : Christopher Tignor
Title : Core Memory Unwound
Genre : Classical
Year : 2009
Date : 01/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 08
Label : Western Vinyl
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 53:55 min
Size : 69,1 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Last Thought At Night 07:01
02.Last Nights On Eagle Street 07:33
03.Meeting In A Colored Shadow 1. 06:08
04.Core Memory Unwound 05:44
05.Meeting In A Colored Shadow 2. 08:49
06.Left In Fragments 08:14
07.Cathedral (Pt. 1) 05:03
08.Cathedral (Pt. 2) 05:23
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53:55 min
For years Slow Six band-leader,
composer, and software designer
Christopher Tignor has performed with
his signature software instruments
alongside fellow band members, sampling
and transforming their live performances
in accordance with his meticulous,
emotionally-charged scores. On Core
Memory Unwound, his debut under his
given name, he brings his software to
the forefront alongside some of his most
intimate compositions for violin and
piano. A record dealing with memory,
both metaphorically and literally, these
intimate tone poems for violin and piano
are each presented in two forms, once in
their original acoustic state, and then
as a "memory portrait" through Tignor's
live performances on his signature
software instruments, creating new works
from samples of these performances taken
on the fly.
"Core Memory" was once the dominant
architecture for computer memory,
consisting of a fine mesh of interwoven
wires. On this release Tignor brings his
background as computer scientist and
composer center-stage, deconstructing
his own music through performance.
Creating new compositions from key
violin and piano gestures played during
the acoustic performances, these "memory
portraits" have a life both intimately
bound to, yet completely distinct from
their source works.
The delicate, angular melodies of "Last
Thought at Night" echo the sentimental
musical anecdotes of Erik Satie, while
the spartan, time-frozen world within
"Meeting in a Colored Shadow" calls to
mind Morton Feldman or even the
fragility of Arvo PΣrt's öFⁿr Alina.ö By
contrast the blissful, cascading violin
arpeggios on "Last Nights on Eagle
Street" entangle us in a bright embrace,
reminiscent of Terry Riley's "Rainbow in
a Curved Air."
The acoustic performances on tracks 1,
3, and 5 are followed by live remixes
using Christopher's Mnemonica and
StreamSequencer software instruments.
These programs allow real-time sampling
and transformation of live sound using a
keyboard controller. On Cathedral,
Christopher plays Mnemonica alongside
Margaret and Colin, sampling from a
microphone inside the piano. Additional
analog effects were also used
throughout.
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