Windows in Time
austraLYSIS is the brainchild of Roger Dean, and exists in several incarnations, including a live electronics band. Here they are in their standard chamber music format and have chosen a programme in which the linchpins are Xenakis and the music of New Zealand composer Lyell Cresswell.
Geoff Warren flute
Ashley Brown percussion
Harry Beckett trumpet, flugelhorn
David Stanhope conductor
Georg Pedersen cello
Marc Meggido double bass
Colin Lawson clarinet
James Fulkerson trombone
Roger Dean double bass, piano, voice, sampler
Hazel Smith violin
Peter Jenkin clarinet, bass clarinet
austraLYSIS ensemble
Colin Bright composer
Roger Dean composer
Hazel Smith composer
Lyell Cresswell composer
Rik Rue composer
Xenakis’s Morsima-Amorsima anchors the disc. Beside it stand Colin Bright’s Night, Dean’s TimeStrain, Hazel Smith’s Simultaneity, Rik Rue’s electroacoustic Three Nocturnal Windows, and Cresswell’s Soliloquy on a Lambent Tailpiece and Organic Music.
The group moves between acoustic chamber writing and live-electronic colour, a snapshot of austraLYSIS in its mid-1990s concert guise.
Artist
austraLYSIS
austraLYSIS works across acoustic free improvisation and live computer interaction, pitting saxophones, piano and percussion against electronics in music that holds tension, risks emotion and never settles into one style.
Tracks
- Morsima-Amorsima Iannis Xenakis 11:13
- Night Colin Bright 11:34
- TimeStrain Roger Dean 7:38
- Simultaneity Hazel Smith 3:17
- Soliloquy on a Lambent Tailpiece Lyell Cresswell 8:35
- Three Nocturnal Windows Rik Rue 15:46
- Organic Music Lyell Cresswell 10:21
Performers
- Stephanie McCallum · piano, voice
- Geoff Warren · flute
- Ashley Brown · percussion
- Harry Beckett · trumpet, flugelhorn
- David Stanhope · conductor
- Georg Pedersen · cello
- Marc Meggido · double bass
- Colin Lawson · clarinet
- James Fulkerson · trombone
- Roger Dean · double bass, piano, voice, sampler
- Hazel Smith · violin
- Peter Jenkin · clarinet, bass clarinet
- austraLYSIS · ensemble
Composers
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.
Roger Dean
Roger Dean's piano and computer improvisations move from lucid jazz homage to dense electroacoustic layering, often with austraLYSIS. Sensitive touch meets algorithmic process, blue notes and dance rhythms surviving inside radical sound design.
Rik Rue
Rik Rue builds music from tape manipulation, analogue and digital samples, and close field recording. Rockpools and tidal motion become extended soundscapes; elsewhere his electronics lock into dense, interlocking textures with voice, winds and strings.
Hazel Smith
Hazel Smith's words cut through processed sound and live electronics: spoken text that rides the edge of electroacoustic improvisation with austraLYSIS, turning poetry into a physical presence in the mix.
Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis writes music of fierce architecture and physical force: piano works that demand absolute mastery, chamber pieces that scrape and glissando into eerie space, and percussion grooves that build from simple cells into relentless drive.
Where to listen
Windows in Time is available for streaming through Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
Windows in Time 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
- TP039
- Total playing time
- 68 minutes 24 seconds
- Contributor
- Hazel Smith
Roger Dean - Release date
- 23 Nov 1994
- Label
- Tall Poppies
- Musical work
copyright - © 1994 Tall Poppies Records
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ 1994 Tall Poppies Records
- Category
- Australian Classics
- Genres
- Contemporary Classical, Modernist Classical
- Barcode
- EAN 9399000003922
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