Byron / String Noise / Bergman -Fabric For String Noise -Cold Blue Label CD Grooves.land/Playthek

Details / Tracklist:

1: Fabric for String Noise, Part 1 (9:06)
2: Fabric for String Noise, Part 2 (12:05)
3: Dragon Rite (8:01)

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Michael Byron's title piece, "Fabric for String Noise," performed by NYC's String Noise (violinists Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris, deemed "New York's most daring violin duo" by "TimeOut New York"), is a wildly virtuosic two-movement work, wherein intense continuous activity shares space with an overarching sense of motionlessness. The composer characterizes it as a "sound object... marked by extreme polyrhythmic complexity and intricate contrapuntal textures." Closing the album is the rich texture of Byron's double bass quartet "Dragon Rite," performed by James Bergman, in which are heard occasional quarter-tone inflections as the piece slowly surges and ebbs. Critic Julian Cowley, writing recently for "The Wire," called Michael Byron "one of those contemporary composers who can justifiably be classed as crucial."

?Byron?s music dances with tremulous iridescence.??Julian Cowley, "The Wire" ?Byron creates maximalist effect out of minimalist means.??"ClassicalNet" ?String Noise?New York?s most daring violin duo.??"TimeOut New York" "Fabric for String Noise" is a wildly virtuosic two-movement work that is unlike just about anything else ever written for two violins. It?s a relentless river of complex polyphony and polyrhythms, wherein intense, continuous activity shares space with an overarching sense of motionlessness. Closing the album is "Dragon Rite," a rich, slowly unfolding texture for four double basses. This CD shows Byron?s fascination with uniting seemingly at-odds minimalist and maximalist techniques and soundworlds of immersive beauty with those of wild abandon.

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CDBL54.2

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