Metabolic

SKU: HL.49045757

ISBN 9781540020321. UPC: 888680727222. 9.25x12.0x0.183 inches.

Friction, Pressure, Impact comprises three movements, each of which focuses on the question of musical metabolism in a different way. The first movement, Friction, has a moderately fast metabolism, working through the musical material between the instruments with some speed yet with a kind of compulsively controlled rate of evolution. Pressure has a much slower pace of working through its musical argument, which is relatively minimal. It moves heavily and sensuously through its course. Impact changes and shifts with a mercurial speed; although this movement has one single argument throughout, it is an argument that is constantly changing shape and perspective: phrase-lengths, local patterns, registers, and harmonic inversions are constantly in flux, pelting the music's surface like a hale storm.- Hannah Lash.

SKU: BT.PMC3996

One of a collection of works set to texts by e.e. cummings for the Los Angeles Chamber singers composed by Ian Krouse, who writes: The structural 'bubble' created by fragmenting and repeating individual words - or not - enablesthe composer to control the metabolism of the text - at times lingering at times racing. I particularly enjoy this aspect of text setting, and hope that it creates a somewhat spontaneous, improvisatory impression.