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BAND/ARTIST: Dither
- Title: Brendon Randall-Myers: Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies
- Year Of Release: 2020
- Label: New Focus Recordings
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless / flac 24bits - 48.0kHz +Booklet
- Total Time: 00:37:33
- Total Size: 180 / 374 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies I. Missing Fundamentals
02. Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies II. Auras
03. Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies III. Phantom Rhythms (With Singing)
04. Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies IV. Trem Chorale - Harmonic Melody
05. Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies V. Vanishing Bodies (Lines and Loops)
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Entering a new stage in an illustrious career as a composer and guitarist amidst New York’s ever-evolving downtown scene, Brendon Randall-Myers presents his first piece composed for electric guitar quartet: Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies. Following years performing in a variety of contexts, Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies represents the culmination of Randall-Myers' relationship with the guitar – not only as a musical instrument, but a therapeutic device and extension of the body. Written specifically for fellow-NYC avant-guitar stalwarts Dither, the 37-minute piece deploys the full gamut of techniques, tunings, and six-string strategies at Randall-Myers’ fingertips across five dynamic sections of physically and sonically challenging ensemble playing.
At the root of Randall-Myers’ piece lies a palpable sense of ‘absence as a felt presence’; of the pain felt facing a void when a loved one has gone. The loss of his grandfather ignited this haunting sense of absence, as did lengthy periods apart from his wife (then based in Beijing while on a winding path to a Green Card). Randall-Myers describes the space around him as having been both empty and ‘full of memories’. “I was in our apartment surrounded by our stuff and communicating digitally with her, but with no idea when I’d be able to be with her in that space again.” This separation directly informed the emotional intensity of Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies, formulating as it does delayed reflections of itself; organised within its five-movement structure as “event” followed by “ghost of event”.
Interlocking plucks and riffs from some 20 idiosyncratic tunings used between the four guitarists give way to both hanging silences and heavy walls of feedback. The four consistently break off too, moving through precisely composed on-the-spot re-tunings, at times audible with notes sliding between the melodies of the performance itself. The beautiful final movement, ‘Vanishing Bodies (lines and loops)’, sees all four guitarists switch to foot pedal and loopers to sustain the piece long after physically playing, reanimating the last remnants of the composition as it vanishes once and for all into an ornamental refraction of its own memory.
The composer’s own long-distance running and performing history also guided the piece’s composition, forming as it does something of a sado-masochistic challenge of focus and physical endurance for the performers. Randall-Myers joined the Glenn Branca Ensemble in 2015 and has conducted the group since the composer’s passing in 2018; he recalls the sheer physical and emotional intensity he felt conducting Branca’s music for the first time as “a kind of possession”, outright leaving him physically injured and unable to get out of bed for two days. Balancing chaos with discipline and learning to live with both; having a practice; having a structure – the way Randall-Myers sees it, this all goes “hand-in-hand with endurance”. While Dither are far from new to intensely physical and challenging music, recording sessions for Dynamics of Vanishing Bodieswere nonetheless fraught with exhaustion and visible fraying in the performers. Only with the trust forged via Randall-Myers’ personal relationship with Dither (he’s frequently subbed as a member of the group in live performances) could the project have even happened. “I could ask myself to do it, or them, but pretty much nobody else.”
Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies was written as part of a Jerome Foundation-sponsored residency at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn. The piece first premiered at Roulette Intermedium in 2017, and was subsequently performed by Dither at Bang on a Can’s LOUD Weekend, plus The Stone NYC in 2019. The album was recorded at Greenpoint Recording Collective in Brooklyn and mixed by two-time Grammy Nominee Mike Tierney.
01. Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies I. Missing Fundamentals
02. Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies II. Auras
03. Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies III. Phantom Rhythms (With Singing)
04. Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies IV. Trem Chorale - Harmonic Melody
05. Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies V. Vanishing Bodies (Lines and Loops)
Entering a new stage in an illustrious career as a composer and guitarist amidst New York’s ever-evolving downtown scene, Brendon Randall-Myers presents his first piece composed for electric guitar quartet: Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies. Following years performing in a variety of contexts, Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies represents the culmination of Randall-Myers' relationship with the guitar – not only as a musical instrument, but a therapeutic device and extension of the body. Written specifically for fellow-NYC avant-guitar stalwarts Dither, the 37-minute piece deploys the full gamut of techniques, tunings, and six-string strategies at Randall-Myers’ fingertips across five dynamic sections of physically and sonically challenging ensemble playing.
At the root of Randall-Myers’ piece lies a palpable sense of ‘absence as a felt presence’; of the pain felt facing a void when a loved one has gone. The loss of his grandfather ignited this haunting sense of absence, as did lengthy periods apart from his wife (then based in Beijing while on a winding path to a Green Card). Randall-Myers describes the space around him as having been both empty and ‘full of memories’. “I was in our apartment surrounded by our stuff and communicating digitally with her, but with no idea when I’d be able to be with her in that space again.” This separation directly informed the emotional intensity of Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies, formulating as it does delayed reflections of itself; organised within its five-movement structure as “event” followed by “ghost of event”.
Interlocking plucks and riffs from some 20 idiosyncratic tunings used between the four guitarists give way to both hanging silences and heavy walls of feedback. The four consistently break off too, moving through precisely composed on-the-spot re-tunings, at times audible with notes sliding between the melodies of the performance itself. The beautiful final movement, ‘Vanishing Bodies (lines and loops)’, sees all four guitarists switch to foot pedal and loopers to sustain the piece long after physically playing, reanimating the last remnants of the composition as it vanishes once and for all into an ornamental refraction of its own memory.
The composer’s own long-distance running and performing history also guided the piece’s composition, forming as it does something of a sado-masochistic challenge of focus and physical endurance for the performers. Randall-Myers joined the Glenn Branca Ensemble in 2015 and has conducted the group since the composer’s passing in 2018; he recalls the sheer physical and emotional intensity he felt conducting Branca’s music for the first time as “a kind of possession”, outright leaving him physically injured and unable to get out of bed for two days. Balancing chaos with discipline and learning to live with both; having a practice; having a structure – the way Randall-Myers sees it, this all goes “hand-in-hand with endurance”. While Dither are far from new to intensely physical and challenging music, recording sessions for Dynamics of Vanishing Bodieswere nonetheless fraught with exhaustion and visible fraying in the performers. Only with the trust forged via Randall-Myers’ personal relationship with Dither (he’s frequently subbed as a member of the group in live performances) could the project have even happened. “I could ask myself to do it, or them, but pretty much nobody else.”
Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies was written as part of a Jerome Foundation-sponsored residency at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn. The piece first premiered at Roulette Intermedium in 2017, and was subsequently performed by Dither at Bang on a Can’s LOUD Weekend, plus The Stone NYC in 2019. The album was recorded at Greenpoint Recording Collective in Brooklyn and mixed by two-time Grammy Nominee Mike Tierney.
Year 2020 | Classical | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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