Ron Mazurek Breath for Solo Percussion and Electronic Sound (CD of electronic portion)
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Ron Mazurek Breath for Solo Percussion and Electronic Sound
CD of Electronic Portion
Instrumentation: Solo Percussion and Electronic Sound (multi - Drs, Cyms)
Program Notes by the composer:
"Breath was written on commission from Connecticut College for Eliza Cooper and Peter Jarvis. Breath in art is the reminder of the soul, the anima mundi. The concept of this work is based on a play of Samuel Beckett entitled “Breath” in which the transformation of "breathing" sounds from their original context, is constructed upon the idea of "infinite patterns". Through manipulation of pitches and duration the musical progression seeks to convey an unfolding that never ends. Throughout the emphasis is on fundamental sounds dramatizing the inhaling and exhaling of breath in which the “live” percussive fragments emerge into and out of the electronic sound.
'It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in a silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be quoted from Lao-tse'"
-Ron Mazurek
CD of Electronic Portion
Instrumentation: Solo Percussion and Electronic Sound (multi - Drs, Cyms)
Program Notes by the composer:
"Breath was written on commission from Connecticut College for Eliza Cooper and Peter Jarvis. Breath in art is the reminder of the soul, the anima mundi. The concept of this work is based on a play of Samuel Beckett entitled “Breath” in which the transformation of "breathing" sounds from their original context, is constructed upon the idea of "infinite patterns". Through manipulation of pitches and duration the musical progression seeks to convey an unfolding that never ends. Throughout the emphasis is on fundamental sounds dramatizing the inhaling and exhaling of breath in which the “live” percussive fragments emerge into and out of the electronic sound.
'It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in a silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be quoted from Lao-tse'"
-Ron Mazurek
