PRESS RELEASE: "Unapologetically beautiful" new sounds from Tristan Perich
Out now: Tristan Perich's Drift Multiply for 50 violins & 50 1-bit speakers
"unapologetically beautiful'
-The Wire
"mesmerizing"
-Uncut
Composer Tristan Perich's new album Drift Multiply for 50 violins and 50 1-bit speakers is out today via our partnership with Nonesuch Records. The recording features conductor Douglas Perkins. Scored as one hundred individual lines of music, the piece blends violins and speakers into a cascading tapestry of tone, harmony, and noise. The violins perform from sheet music, while the speakers are each connected to custom-built circuit boards programmed to output 1-bit audio, the most basic digital waveforms made of just ones and zeroes. Perich explains, “I am interested in the threshold between the abstract world of computation and the physical world around us." Head over to Bandcamp to snag a signed copy!
Composer Joseph C. Phillips' mono-opera on race in 21st century America is out next week
‘If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.’ - Toni Morrison
That was the inspiration behind Joseph C. Phillips Jr. for writing The Grey Land, a mono-opera he wrote in his self-described "mixed music" compositional style chronicles a single Black mother and her son for a dynamic exploration of race, class and power in 21st century America. This undefinable work is out as a recording next Friday, Nov. 20, Featuring soloists soprano Rebecca L Hargrove and narrator Kenneth Browning and Phillips' ensemble Numinous. Learn more in this trailer about the making of this project.