Gradients of Detail
1 (a)long lines: we’ll draw our own lines (2004)
2 Her Teeth Were White (1999)
3 Gradients of Detail (2005 - 2006)
Ensemble musikFabrik,
conductor: Peter Rundel
Dirk Rothbrust _ Solo Percussion
Asasello Quartet
A co-production between Deutschlandfunk, World Edition and
Frau Musica (nova).
The music on this CD was presented in concert by Frau Musica (nova), on February 5th, 2012, in the Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Cologne, Germany.
Recording & mixing realised with the cooperative efforts of Gidi Boss, Stephan Schmidt, and Eckhard Glauche.
Sound Technicians: Ernst Hartmann & Christoph Schumacher CD-Mastering: Eckhard Glauche
"... the grain and shading, smooth glissandi and fluttery beating within Ensemble musikFabrik’s 30 minute reading of her (A)Long Lines: We’ll Draw Our Own Lines, and the hobbling postures of her solo percussion work Her Teeth Were White suggest that further investigation of Szlavnics’s drawings, her music and the relationship between them would be genuinely rewarding."
(The Wire)
”Szlavnics’s independent drawings contain no directions that would influence the way we look at them. Seeing is always a silent performance primarily based on sensations. Even so, listening to Szlavnics’s music feels like listening to the sounds of the lines in her drawings. The artist does not necessarily intend these drawings to be compositions or notations that can be translated into sound. Yet as much as she considers her works on paper to be drawings in their own right, they are musical all the same. Conceptual artist Hanne Darboven, having found in her manifold notations a way of expressing the being in time, began to set to music her vast tableaux of characters and symbols. In this regard there appears to be a certain affinity between the two artists.”
(Eugen Blume)
CD #0022
chiyoko szlavnics :
gradients of detail
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