Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: The Moment's Energy

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 15 Jul 2009 17:06:42 | Comments : 6 |

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The fifth ECM disc from Parker’s Electro-Acoustic Ensemble whose pioneering work has effectively established a model for a new kind of improvising chamber orchestra, creating fresh colours from the blending and contrasting of acoustic instruments and live electronics. The latest edition of the group adds some new members – two Americans, Ned Rothenberg and Peter Evans, both well-known to followers of improvised music, and a Japanese musician, Ko Ishikawa – and expands the horizons still further. With more acoustic instruments in the mix, the group now embraces both the ancient and the modern: Ko, for instance, plays exclusively the sho, the archaic bamboo mouth organ, which sounds thoroughly futuristic when processed by the Ensemble’s sonic scientists. Similarly, the borders between improvisation and composition are dissolved in this music: “The Moment’s Energy” features an extended new work commissioned by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.>

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Eac Log

Tracks:

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IV
V
VI
VII
Incandescent Clouds

Evan Parker: soprano saxophone
Peter Evans: trumpet, piccolo trumpet
Ko Ishikawa: sho
Ned Rothenberg: clarinet, bass clarinet, shakuhachi
Philipp Wachsmann: violin, live electronics
Agustí Fernandez: piano, prepared piano
Barry Guy: double-bass
Paul Lytton: percussion, live electronics
Lawrence Casserley: signal processing instrument
Joel Ryan: sample and signal processing
Walter Prati: computer processing
Richard Barrett: live electronics
Paul Obermayer: live electronics
Marco Vecchi: sound projection