Christopher Biggs - Christopher Biggs: Decade Zero (2017)
BAND/ARTIST: Christopher Biggs
- Title: Christopher Biggs: Decade Zero
- Year Of Release: 2017
- Label: Ravello Records
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: FLAC (tracks)
- Total Time: 1:07:32
- Total Size: 344 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
New from Ravello Records is DECADE ZERO, a compilation of works for instruments and electronics by Christopher Biggs. The works integrate traditional instruments with live electronic processing and sound files.
Biggs’ compositions focus on environmental, political, and scientific extra-musical concepts relevant to today’s world. Featuring the Western Brass Quintet, the title track, Decade Zero explores the last period in time when humanity can take decisive action to combat climate change without facing irrevocable changes to our world.
Externalities, for amplified cello and electronics, balances a consumer attempting to minimize the negative outcomes of their consumption choices while reflecting on participatory economics. Amass, for clarinet and electronics, has origins in the Arab Spring movement and Occupy Wall Street. It reflects on contemporary society’s desire for meaningful change through continuous stratifying and blending of music.
Biggs’ more abstract works, such as the Decoherence for trumpet and electronics, refer to concepts of quantum physics, and Recombinant Serenade features variations on the “Prologue” from Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for tenor, horn, and strings.
Featuring works based on science fiction, Biggs’ A Letter to the Moon is inspired by Italo Calvino’s short story The Distance to the Moon. Promethea, for alto saxophone and electronics, is based on Alan Moore’s graphic novel of the same name. The common themes between these works include the anxieties of decision-making, often represented with instrumental parts, and the range of resulting consequences, generally represented by the electronics. Biggs’ striking electro-acoustic works lend these ideas a startling immediacy by creating compelling music that will intrigue and thrill listeners.
Tracklist:
01. Western Brass Quintet - Decade Zero
02. Christopher Biggs & Zachary Boyt - Externalities: I. —
03. Christopher Biggs & Zachary Boyt - Externalities: II. —
04. Christopher Biggs & Zachary Boyt - Externalities: III. —
05. Christopher Biggs & Alex Sellers - Promethea
06. Christopher Biggs & Alex Sellers - A Letter to the Moon: I. —
07. Christopher Biggs & Alex Sellers - A Letter to the Moon: II. —
08. Christopher Biggs & Lin Foulk - Recombinant Serenade
09. Christopher Biggs & Lin Foulk - Decoherence: I. —
10. Christopher Biggs & Lin Foulk - Decoherence: II. —
11. Christopher Biggs & Lin Foulk - Decoherence: III. —
12. Christopher Biggs & Mauricio Salguero - Amass: I. Of Need and Necessity
13. Christopher Biggs & Mauricio Salguero - Amass: II. Music of the Spheres
14. Christopher Biggs & Mauricio Salguero - Amass: III. Imperatives
15. Christopher Biggs & Mauricio Salguero - Amass: IV. And Now Late Breaking
16. Christopher Biggs & Mauricio Salguero - Amass: V. Calculations
17. Christopher Biggs & Mauricio Salguero - Amass: VI. Abstraction
18. Christopher Biggs & Mauricio Salguero - Amass: VII. Anarchy
Biggs’ compositions focus on environmental, political, and scientific extra-musical concepts relevant to today’s world. Featuring the Western Brass Quintet, the title track, Decade Zero explores the last period in time when humanity can take decisive action to combat climate change without facing irrevocable changes to our world.
Externalities, for amplified cello and electronics, balances a consumer attempting to minimize the negative outcomes of their consumption choices while reflecting on participatory economics. Amass, for clarinet and electronics, has origins in the Arab Spring movement and Occupy Wall Street. It reflects on contemporary society’s desire for meaningful change through continuous stratifying and blending of music.
Biggs’ more abstract works, such as the Decoherence for trumpet and electronics, refer to concepts of quantum physics, and Recombinant Serenade features variations on the “Prologue” from Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for tenor, horn, and strings.
Featuring works based on science fiction, Biggs’ A Letter to the Moon is inspired by Italo Calvino’s short story The Distance to the Moon. Promethea, for alto saxophone and electronics, is based on Alan Moore’s graphic novel of the same name. The common themes between these works include the anxieties of decision-making, often represented with instrumental parts, and the range of resulting consequences, generally represented by the electronics. Biggs’ striking electro-acoustic works lend these ideas a startling immediacy by creating compelling music that will intrigue and thrill listeners.
Tracklist:
01. Western Brass Quintet - Decade Zero
02. Christopher Biggs & Zachary Boyt - Externalities: I. —
03. Christopher Biggs & Zachary Boyt - Externalities: II. —
04. Christopher Biggs & Zachary Boyt - Externalities: III. —
05. Christopher Biggs & Alex Sellers - Promethea
06. Christopher Biggs & Alex Sellers - A Letter to the Moon: I. —
07. Christopher Biggs & Alex Sellers - A Letter to the Moon: II. —
08. Christopher Biggs & Lin Foulk - Recombinant Serenade
09. Christopher Biggs & Lin Foulk - Decoherence: I. —
10. Christopher Biggs & Lin Foulk - Decoherence: II. —
11. Christopher Biggs & Lin Foulk - Decoherence: III. —
12. Christopher Biggs & Mauricio Salguero - Amass: I. Of Need and Necessity
13. Christopher Biggs & Mauricio Salguero - Amass: II. Music of the Spheres
14. Christopher Biggs & Mauricio Salguero - Amass: III. Imperatives
15. Christopher Biggs & Mauricio Salguero - Amass: IV. And Now Late Breaking
16. Christopher Biggs & Mauricio Salguero - Amass: V. Calculations
17. Christopher Biggs & Mauricio Salguero - Amass: VI. Abstraction
18. Christopher Biggs & Mauricio Salguero - Amass: VII. Anarchy
Year 2017 | Classical | FLAC / APE
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