Franzson / Loadbang - Loadbang - Lungpowered - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Various Artists - Music from Bowling Green / Various [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/08/2014

the Negotiation of Context by the native Icelander David Brynjar Franzson is a set of three independent pieces. Each of the three pieces is assembled from various sounds and contexts on top of a topography of pre-existing programs the history of the instruments, the social dynamics of the performers, and the means of presentation of the piece. The listener is presented with a series of materials that embody how performers play with or against each other.In Inchthe Negotiation of Context (A)Inch the piano and the pump organ explore the similarities and differences between each other and extend their own sounds into each other's domain. The relationship between the performers is explored through mimicry and opposition - the performers both playing as one and playing alone.Inchthe Negotiation of Context (B)Inchexpands the performance dynamic established in Inchthe Negotiation of Context (A)Inchthrough the relationship of two pairs of identical instruments two pianos and two modified bass drums. The performers mimic each other's sounds and actions. This occurs both across instruments - fusing the sounds of the pianos with the sounds of the modified bass drums - as well as within instruments - fusing each of the two instrumental pairs into one.In Inchthe Negotiation of Context (C)Inch, one performer plays on the keyboard of the piano while a second performer touches the strings of the instrument with fingers and metal slides. The actions of one performer extend the actions of the other. Only through the combined actions of the two performers is a given sound produced.

Loadbang releases their fourth album on New Focus, this time featuring centerpieces by Heather Stebbins and Chaya Czernowin as well as music by ensemble members Jeffrey Gavett and Andy Kozar. New York City-based new music chamber group loadbang is building a new kind of music for mixed ensemble of trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice. Since their founding in 2008, they have been praised as 'cultivated' by The New Yorker, 'an extra-cool new music group' and 'exhilarating' by the Baltimore Sun, 'inventive' by the New York Times and called a 'formidable new-music force' by TimeOutNY. Creating 'a sonic world unlike any other' (The Boston Musical Intelligencer), their unique lung-powered instrumentation has provoked diverse responses from composers, resulting in a repertoire comprising an inclusive picture of composition today. In New York City, they have been recently presented by and performed at Miller Theater, Symphony Space, MATA, and by the Look and Listen Festival; on American tours at Da Camera of Houston, Rothko Chapel, and the Festival of New American Music at Sacramento State University; and internationally at Ostrava Days (Czech Republic), China-ASEAN Music Week (China), the Xinghai Conservatory of Music (China), Shanghai Symphony Hall (China), and the Musikverein (Vienna, Austria).