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quiet on the bridge
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Catalogue number: MD3317
This is re-sound's fourth CD release. As
with the group's previous recordings, this CD
combines a range of contemporary styles and
approaches, including electronic and
electro-acoustic music, contemporary chamber and
interactive computer music, indeterminate (open)
works and improvisation. Most of the tracks were
not only performed but also created by re-sound
members, reflecting the strong
composer-performer overlap of the group. In
addition, two guests, Russell Goodwin and Nick
Wilson, have contributed their pieces to this
CD. Finally, re-sound's interpretation of Keith
Humble's In Five (module of Nunique) returns to
the improvisatory music of the '60s.
Disc Contents:
Time Sliding - Thomas Reiner
Kappa - Melanie Chilianis
Quiet on the Bridge - Brea Acton
Existence Part 1 - Nick Wilson
In Five (module of Nunique) - Keith Humble
Ellipsis - Paul Moulatlet
Dawn - Thomas Reiner
Desert Factory - Melanie Chilianis, Thomas
Reiner, Paul Todd
Sweet Flute - Katrina Dowling and Thomas Reiner
Pirate Door - Melanie Chilianis
Transference - Russell Goodwin
ephemeral
densities
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Move Records
Catalogue Number:
MD3295
ephemeral densities is
re-sound's
third CD. It focuses on new Australian
work by re-sound members Steve Adam, Melanie
Chilianis, Paul Moulatlet, and Thomas Reiner.
All but one of these works were presented in
March 2004 to a capacity audience at Pony, a
night club in Melbourne's inner city district.
The idea for the event was to integrate
contemporary chamber music, computer music and
popular electronic music. The audience
feedback on this performance that
re-sound
received encouraged the group to create this
recording.
Disc Contents:
canal (Steve Adam and Thomas Reiner)
quintet/sextet for chamber group & CD
(Thomas Reiner)
breath stain (Melanie Chilianis)
HybriD (Steve Adam)
aerofoil (Thomas Reiner)
Vectors (Paul Moulatlet)
ephemeral densities (Thomas Reiner)
canal mp3
breath stain mp3
Vectors
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ephemeral densities
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In C
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In C
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Records
Catalogue Number: MD3262
"exhilarating ...
unique and totally innovative." (Chris
Copas, The Star)
"slick and sassy, an In C for
our times." (Andrew Ford, 24 Hours)
"extraordinary ... hypnotic" (John
Barns, 3MBS FM Libretto )
"an excellent presentation of Riley's
composition ... The clarity of the recording
is another factor in the high standard of
this performance ... with the listener held
in a trance of this beautiful sound."
(Elizabeth Scarlett, Artstreams)
This recording is the outcome of seven years
of engagement with Terry Riley's In C.
It was back in 1996 that the Australian contemporary
music group re-sound
gave its first performance
of this classic composition of minimalist
music. Since then, the group has experimented
with a number of performance approaches to
the work, which eventually led to the electroacoustic
version that is documented on this CD.
With its innovative combination of electronica
dance rhythms and beats, pre-recorded sequences,
electric bass and guitar and an acoustic chamber
ensemble, re-sound's
engagement with In C has been a journey
– not just for the musicians but also
for the group's audiences.
Whether Terry Riley himself might feel that
this recording stretches the limits of interpretation
or whether he indeed welcomes the acquaintance
with popular electronic music, he has nonetheless
provided through this work an exciting and
genuinely mind-expanding musical experience
- an experience that this recording endeavours
to prolong.
Need an audio preview? We have TWO samples
to whet your appetite:
Part Five,
mp3
Part Nine,
mp3
Disc Contents:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Part Seven
Part Eight
Part Nine
Part Ten
Part Eleven
re-sound
Available from
Move
Records
Catalogue Number:
MCD255
re-sound's
first and self titled CD features chamber
works by 20th-century composers John Cage,
Brendan Colbert, Paul Moulatlet, Ken Murray,
Thomas Reiner, and Harvey Sollberger. Eight
tracks make up the CD's sonic journey through
the music of our time – a journey
that explores new sound worlds and challenges
traditional views of what constitutes music.
The CD is not for "easy listening"
and yet it has an immediate appeal through
its uncompromising directness and its sensuality
of sound. This music does not require intellectual
deliberation to be appreciated, nor does
a listener have to be musically educated
to be attracted by the wide range of sound
colours and unusual musical forms this CD
has to offer.
The first and most substantial work is SEVEN
by the American experimentalist composer
John Cage. SEVEN is one of Cage's
late works, and it is a slow-moving, almost
static, sonic meditation for seven chamber
instruments. The second work is one of the
six Australian works featured on the CD:
Brendan Colbert's Agite for flute.
This fast, agitated, and energetic solo
piece is performed with audible enthusiasm
by Melanie Chilianis.
The group's artistic director, Thomas Reiner,
wrote the third track, Septet,
for re-sound.
The work is characterised by harsh dissonances
and highly irregular rhythms. Ken Murray,
the group's guitarist, is the composer and
performer of the CD's second of three solo
pieces: Bash. It uses range of
popular and classical playing techniques
to deliver colourful and dynamic textures
and gestures. Spiel, another work
by Brendan Colbert, is scored for flute,
violin and guitar. The piece integrates
the three instruments into an intricate
web of ever-changing sounds. Harvey Sollberger's
duet Sunflowers suggests warmth
and elegance through a subtle dialogue between
flute (doubling on alto flute) and vibraphone.
This is followed by a highly expressive
and at times almost fragile work: Paul Moulatlet's
Chamber Work #2.
The last piece on the CD, Thomas Reiner's
Grace Notes for clarinet solo,
is possibly the CD's most radical track.
It combines silences, short and soft gestures,
and sustained sounds that seem to take on
a life of their own. In addition to being
a unique recording in its own right, this
CD is also a sonic documentation of the
work re-sound
has done during the
years 1996 to 1999.
Disc Contents:
SEVEN (John Cage)
Agite (Brendan Colbert)
Septet (Thomas Reiner)
Bash (Ken Murray)
Spiel (Brendan Colbert)
Sunflowers (Harvey Sollberger)
Chamber Work #2 (Paul Moulatlet)
Grace Notes (Thomas Reiner)
other cds
featuring
re-sound artists
hard chamber
Available from
Move
Records
Catalogue Number:
MD3280
A retrospective collection
of chamber works by leading Melbourne contemporary
composer, Thomas Reiner.
Features soloists from Monash University
and the ensemble re-sound.
"As the title suggests, the music on
this CD is not for easy listening ... if
there were such a thing as a perfect listening
strategy for my compositions, then it would
have to be one that avoids traditional expectations
of what constitutes music and instead encourages
the sort of mindful and unconditioned listening
that allows for the enjoyment of sounds
and sound structures in their own right."
(Thomas Reiner on Hard Chamber).
conversations
Available from
Move
Records
Catalogue Number:
MD3289
Conversations is a
collaborative electroacoustic work by Steve
Adam, Philip Czaplowski, Robin Fox, Russell
Goodwin, Peter Myers, and Thomas Reiner.
In addition to re-sound composers Adam and
Reiner, the recording also includes re-sound
performer Paul Todd on Bb and Eb clarinets.
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