SPACE
One work by Colin Bright, written for his Syzygy Band of outstanding improvising musicians. The score is printed in the booklet, so listeners can follow the notated passages and the points where the ensemble takes over in improvisation.
The music is inspired by the immensity of outer space. As Colin Bright puts it: “Concepts of space set the mind spinning. The incredible vastness. The minutest particles. No centre. No boundary. No beginning. No end…? Music explores ideas that cannot be put into words and that is what this piece attempts to do. To set the imagination on fire – for the players and the listeners. The performers have to achieve a sense of flow, to connect with each other through the music, in conjunction and opposition. Syzygy!”
Colin Bright is a Sydney-based Australian composer and musician whose work reflects different aspects of being Australian. This is not the first time Tall Poppies has presented his music. The cover addresses the theme with a magnificent photograph by David Malin at the Australian Observatory.
Concepts of space set the mind spinning. The incredible vastness. The minutest particles. No centre. No boundary. No beginning. No end…? Music explores ideas that cannot be put into words and that is what this piece attempts to do. To set the imagination on fire – for the players and the listeners. The performers have to achieve a sense of flow, to connect with each other through the music, in conjunction and opposition. Syzygy!
Artists
Colin Bright
Colin Bright composes for landscape and psyche: Red Earth turns Aboriginal rhythmic practice and outback stasis into chamber music of pulse and ceremony, while SPACE hands improvisers a score built for vastness without centre or boundary.
Tracks
Colin Bright — SPACE
Performer
- The Colin Bright Syzygy Band · ensemble
Where to listen
SPACE is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.
Product details
- Catalogue number
- TP257
- Label
- Tall Poppies
- Categories
- Australian Classics, Jazz
- Genres
- Jazz & Improvised, Contemporary Classical
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