Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Recording: The Extended Orchestra




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Extended Orchestra refers to an expansion of instrumentation beyond the traditional orchestral modicum. In this piece it involves adding a prescribed number (in this performance 18) of non-traditional orchestral instruments. While the score for the instruments is carefully notated, the instrument selection is left up to the key stakeholders of the performance.
“Form and referent coincide, and response rarely goes beyond the initial frisson. In creating a score of this magnitude, it is not the immediate, visceral reaction but the critical reception, the work’s potential to generate independent thinking, that matters.

Saturday, January 6, 2018

To Infinity and Beyond: A Reflection on Notation, 1980s Darmstadt, and Interpretational Approaches to the Music of New Complexity by Stuart Paul Duncan

Excerpt from Brian Ferneyhough





To Infinity and Beyond: A Reflection on Notation, 1980s Darmstadt, and Interpretational Approaches to the Music of New Complexity

by Stuart Paul Duncan


Link:http://www.searchnewmusic.org/duncan.pdf



Friday, January 5, 2018

"Staged Involuntary Limbic Experiments" . The Recording.


"Staged Involuntary Limbic Experiments" 
for Two String Quartets 
(2012-2013) 
Bil Smith Composer
This performance made possible with the generous assistance of Etisalat

Recording available for a limited time on Soundcloud:




Thursday, January 4, 2018

Recording: "Plaster Replicas of his Wife; All Annotated Editions (Money Penny)"




"Plaster Replicas of his Wife; All Annotated Editions (Money Penny)" 
Bil Smith Composer
For Chamber Orchestra (Including Contraforte, Soprillo Bb Piccolo Saxophone and Inderbinen Inox Bb Trumpet) and Electronic Manipulation (2009)



Wednesday, January 3, 2018

"Huge Cinemas Turned Away Up A Damp Conclave Slope" For Three Orchestras. The Recording.





"Huge Cinemas Turned Away Up A Damp Conclave Slope" 
(2009-2011) 
Bil Smith Composer
for Three Orchestras.
This work was a commission from Finnair in 2008 and performed by Ensemble ∞Playce on August 15, 2013 in a world premiere at the Moscow International Performing Arts Center.
"Huge Cinemas retains a sense of beatific optimism throughout. a magical environment is created: half unprocessed, half electricity. The work evokes a grimy, quinine tinted special category of cytoplasmic coma. The strings mimic a dark cloud pressed beyond the bliss, reflecting an age of other dimensions, arctic paradises with the burden of mutually assured destruction ever lifted."
- Clive Bell


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