source file: mills3.txt Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:48:49 +0100 Subject: cd review From: Xou Oxno I found this in rec.music.classical.contemporary, but haven't heard it yet. >Subject: CD Reviews: Patrick Grant - Fields Amaze >From: Silent Treatment >Date: Thu, Feb 19, 1998 12:14 EST >Message-id: <34EC6862.4FED@ze.music> > >PATRICK GRANT: Fields Amaze (Silent Treatment) Grant's >music is clearly Balinese inspired, and he's helped out on this disc >by musicians from Gamelan Son of Lion. But there's also a driving >and rather harsh energy redolent of rock, as well as a cleanly >(Western) melodicism. Motorically "snapped to grid", in computer >parlance, the music's momentum and intricate cross-rhythms rarely >let up, making the occasional infectious tunes that emerge all the >more beautiful for surprise. "A Visible Track of Turbulence" and >"Relative Segments" are for classical chamber ensembles, but it's >the slight microtonal piano retunings in the other works - "Fields >Amaze", my favorite, and "Everything Distinct: Everything the >Same" - that give the music a highly original punch. > >Kyle Gann - The Village Voice ( week ending Feb. 24) >http://www.villagevoice.com/ink/music/8gann.shtml > >------------------------------------------------------------- > >More and more young composers are determined to fuse their >formal training with popular and world music influences. Few, >however, come up with results that add up to more than the sum of >their parts, like Patrick Grant, whose debut CD (Silent Treatment >1709 MLTV) is out now. A lack of program notes and biographical >information imply that Grant intends the music to speak for itself. >In truth, the Detroit reared composer is in his early thirties, has >worked a lot with dance and multimedia, and performs regularly >with Gamelan Son Of Lion. "Fields Amaze," the opening work on >the disc, blends traditional gamelan with a microtonal keyboard, >weaving an intriguing tapestry of non-pitched sounds with lively >rhythmic patterns that culminate in a driving pedal point that is >almost Bachian in effect. "A Visible Track of Turbulence" is >scored for more conventional forces. Grant's writing for flute, >clarinet and piano emphasizes long lines and rigorously >constructed rhythmic phrases, yet never really exploits the >instruments on their own terms. "Everything Distinct: Everything >the Same", for three percussionists and just as many keyboards >tuned in meantone temperament reveals the composer's strong >theoretical bent. I am especially fond of the four movement >"Relative Segments," which bristles with upbeat invention >throughout, notably in its harmonic and metric slights of hand. It >has an evocative slow movement that reveals a lyric gift I hope >Grant will explore more extensively in future works. One suspects >much of this music would easily appeal to young choreographers >looking for something out of the ordinary yet accessible at the >same time. You can obtain this CD directly from the composer @ >Silent Treatment (BMI), 1173A 2nd Avenue, Suite 322, New >York, NY 10021, or via the Internet (mrpgrant@mail.idt.net). > >Jed Distler - EPULSE: Tower Records Online Weekly Ezine >coming out Feb. 21 >http://www.towerrecords.com/epulse/index.html -- * . D a v i d Beardsley .. xouoxnoREMOVE-THIS@virtulink.com * * * * I M M P & B i i n k! m u s i c . . * * * J u x t a p o s i t i o n Ezine . * * M E L A v i r t u a l dream house monitor * * * * * http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm * . . * SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Adam Silverman Subject: Fw: PARTCH collection must relocate (fwd) PostedDate: 19-02-98 17:10:14 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 19-02-98 17:09:13-19-02-98 17:09:14,19-02-98 17:07:02-19-02-98 17:07:02 DeliveredDate: 19-02-98 17:07:02 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C12565B0.0058B85E; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:09:12 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA07215; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:10:14 +0100 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:10:14 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA07212 Received: (qmail 29649 invoked from network); 19 Feb 1998 08:09:16 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Feb 1998 08:09:16 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu