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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Ann Southam
Title......: Simple Lines of Enquiry (Eve Egoyan, Piano)
Rip Date...: Mar-2011 Cat.No.....: CMCCD 14609
Style......: Avantgarde Label......: CMC/Centrediscs
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 78,10 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
A fine Canadian composer who died late 2010 - we'd been meaning to
rip a few CDs in memoriam, so here you go,
Obit:
http://thestar.blogs.com/soundmind/2010/11/canadian-composer-ann-s
outham-brought-an-engagingly-quiet-life-force-to-the-piano-keyboar
d.html
You have to be in an unfamiliar mindset to listen to Ann SouthamÆs
Simple Lines of Enquiry. If youÆre not, you might find yourself
waiting just under an hour (58:41 to be exact) for something
momentous to happen, and then leaving with the feeling that you
have been cheated. As presented here with great discipline and
sensitivity by pianist Eve Egoyan, who has often collaborated with
Southam and gives the present work its premiere recording, the
twelve movements that make up this major work for piano come
across as the aural equivalent of twelve abstract paintings
hanging by themselves in a gallery, generating an atmosphere of
silence instead of sound, stasis instead of the activity we
usually expect from a work of music.
This, of course, is minimalist, and very slow. The emphasis is on
a 12-tone row, or rather a 12-interval row, as Southam would have
it, with a slow, gentle, and precisely sequenced exploration of
these intervals and the sonorities they create. As Southam has
explained it elsewhere, the two notes in the right hand at the end
of the sequence provide a kind of tonal center around which the
12-tone row works. At the same time, SouthamÆs music is distinctly
atonal. Her silences are as eloquent as the bell-like sounds she
is fond of deriving from repeated notes. In this recording you
will typically hear Eve Egoyan play a cluster of 5-10 notes which
seem to hang in the air, mingle their overtones, and then fade
into near silence before she resumes her attack on the next
cluster. Egoyan talks of Southam's "magically suspended,
weightless sound world, a place for deep listening and
contemplation."
And here we get to the crux of the matter. In SouthamÆs writing,
the usual linear aspect of music takes on a very different
meaning. Notions such as melody, rhythm and counterpoint exist, if
at all, in a personal context. Tones and their overtones take on
the character of the principal subject of the music. The end
result is to create a deep listening experience that focuses and
relaxes the mind of the listener, facilitating a contemplative
state. Since these ends are so highly intimate and personal, it is
difficult to imagine Simple Lines of Enquiry inspiring much
enthusiasm from a concert audience, as opposed to the performer or
the home listener. As contemplatives, we exist as individuals, not
en masse. Depending on your own mood and your listening needs at
the moment, attending to the music on this CD may leave you
feeling deeply relaxed and centered. (If, however, you prefer
things Canadian served up with a bit more excitement, go and watch
the Stanley Cup Playoffs!)
p l a y l i s t
01 movement 1 04:40
02 movement 2 04:45
03 movement 3 04:53
04 movement 4 04:57
05 movement 5 05:02
06 movement 6 04:42
07 movement 7 04:56
08 movement 8 04:15
09 movement 9 05:17
10 movements 10-11 09:41
11 movement 12 05:57
59:05 min
g r e e t i n g s
agw - amok - bass - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
uki - xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl