Release Date: 23 October 2020
Label: Birmingham Record Company
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060644810095
Genres: Classical  Contemporary  
Release Date: 23 October 2020
Label: Birmingham Record Company
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060644810095
Genres: Classical  Contemporary  
Description
Two performers each take a roll of tape and simultaneously wrap it around both of their bodies. They pause to catch their breath, then try to break free from the tape. The title Tape Piece evokes 20th-century avant-garde electronic music produced using magnetic audiotape. But this performance playfully recasts those complex rhythms and sounds using entirely physical means, as two performers use ordinary household tape to create an ever-changing choreographic musical work that fully integrates movement and sound. Their dance creates purely acoustic sounds that are beautiful and compelling, yet could quite easily be replicated by the audience at home, encouraging mindfulness of everyday beauty in the listener.
Tape Piece has been performed around the world, from Florida, Arizona, Ohio and California in the United States, to London, Dublin, Paris, Bruges and Berlin in Europe. It has been performed by leading contemporary music ensembles of the new generation such as soundinitiative, On Structure, Mocrep, Bastard Assignments, Kirkos, and An Assembly. This limited-edition cassette release was recorded directly onto magnetic tape and duplicated using analogue reproduction techniques, completely bypassing digital technology.
Maya Verlaak is a Belgian composer-performer whose artistic process focuses on critique as a necessary catalyst for realising new work, an investigative compositional outlook in which nothing is taken for granted. Andy Ingamells is an interdisciplinary artist who develops unusual methods of composition that blur the line between composer and performer, presenting a musical practice that does not privilege the sounding result but sees it as one amongst many different and equal possibilities.
Tracklisting
Hannah Williams, Riot Ensemble, Yshani Perinpanayagam, Cliodna Shanahan, Dorothy Chan, Ensemble Saxologie
Benjamin Tassie
Orkest de Ereprijs; Wim Boerman; Trish Clowes; BBC Concert Orchestra
Suzie Purkis , Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth
Simon Hall
Orkest De Ereprijs; Wim Boerman; The Schubert Ensemble; Darragh Morgan; Mary Dullea; Daniele Rosina
Michelle Holloway; Jack Mcneill; Paul Norman; Simon Goff
Michael Walters; Paul Norman; Cobalt Duo
Misha Mullov-Abbado
Sultan Stevenson
John Patitucci
Tommy Whittle & Alan Barnes
Xhosa Cole
John Clayton & Mulgrew Miller
George Cables
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent