Fernando Mar n - Scordatura - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Fernando Vihuela Marin De a - Eviolution [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/14/2010

SUPPOSE BEAUTIFUL MADELINE HARVEY is composed by Travis Just and is the musical component of Object Collection's collaboration with legendary experimental theater icon Richard Foreman. The album was captured live (with no overdubs or edits) during Object Collection's sold-out run of ten performances in December 2024 at NYC's legendary East Village theater La MaMa.A paper-thin love story within a paper-thin world, speeding, so it would seem, towards inevitable catastrophe... or perhaps, a very serious twist.Using Foreman's ecstatic, labyrinthine text as the rhythmic source for all vocal and instrumental material, Just scores the voices in a kind of notated speech that ducks and weaves through the dense sound world. The instrumental ensemble performs a high-wire act of a through-composed score, stuffed with bubbling synths, stuttering drum machines, processed woodwinds, and heavy guitars. Acclaimed for their invigorating blend of music and theater, Object Collection got their start over twenty years ago in Foreman's own Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Foreman passed away in January 2025, just two weeks after this production closed. Suppose Beautiful Madeline Harvey extends Richard Foreman's legacy to a new generation of experimentalists.

The Ida Presti and Alexandre Lagoya duo was the hub of guitar music in the 1950s and 60s Paris. The energy of this collaboration radiated throughout the music community, resulting in a multitude of new works for guitar duo. Stein-Erik Olsen and Egil Haugland are outstanding interpreters of the music from the golden age of the guitar. In 2009 Stein-Erik Olsen presented premier recordings of music for guitar duo written by Ida Presti, to great acclaim from reviewers world-wide. This project inspired him to go deeper into the music that was created as a direct result of the collaboration between Presti and her husband and duo-partner Lagoya. Stein-Erik Olsen finds the quality of these works quite special InchIt is simply masterpieces, all of it - without question among the best ever written for guitar duo. All the works on the album are written within the span of six years by composers who have their individual style and musical vocabulary. You immediately hear that these works are written for two equal performers with outstanding technical and musical abilities.Inch Liner notes by Graham Wade.