Release Date: 07 January 2015
Label: Dorian / Sono Luminus
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 053477000127
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Clockworking
Description
Clockworking represents collaboration, connection, and passionately ?erce creativity. As put by Nordic Affect's artistic director and violinist Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir: "Clockworking, inhaling, exhaling; through music we immerse ourselves in creativity. We ?nd moments of community and of individuality as we shape sounds from gut and wood. We encounter new spaces and interact with technology, which in turn affects how we play. We meet listeners with whom we connect and at times it feels as though we're breathing as one." At the core of each Nordic Affect's commissions on this album was the desire to explore the possibilities of their instruments (violin, viola, cello, and harpsichord) within a 21st century aesthetic while at the same time creating their own. The album's title track, "Clockworking" for violin, viola, cello and electronics, can be seen as an encounter of the human and the machine. It is by María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, well-known for her work with Icelandic band amiina. She also composed "Sleeping Pendulum," the last track, which received honorary recommendations at the 2012 rostrum for composers. The second composer on the album, Hildur Gudnadóttir, views her work "2 circles" as a part of an ongoing observation of the relationship between a musician and his instrument, where one person becomes two sound sources. Hafdís Bjarnadóttir's piece "From Beacon to Beacon" is designed as a conversation between two lighthouses and the instrumental parts are based on her transformation of weather forecast for the Garðskagaviti lighthouse into music. "Shades of Silence," by widely acclaimed composer Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, is a piece which explores the "inwards and outwards escape to the subtle nuances of silence," as put by Anna herself.
Tracklisting
Rachel Yonan; Kwan Yi
Los Angeles Percussion Qtet
Ames Piano Quartet
Ying Quartet
Skylark
Richard Narroway
Michael Lewin
Michael Lewin
