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Cheap Existence

particle in a box

world-line presents the forces of ELISION on Huddersfield Contemporary Records for the fourth time, once again pushing the boundaries of instruments in search of visceral, expressive musical experiences. The three works present very different aesthetic approaches, crafting dynamic and innovative sound worlds from the ensemble’s instrumental resources. 

Expanding out from the explosive grinding of lap steel and electronics to an intricate interplay between lap steel, trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion, and electronics, Richard Barrett’s world-line recombines its overlapping movements and sections, continually recontextualising the lap steel guitar against the wider ensemble. The results are riotous and unpredictable, sometimes producing delicate and ethereal tones, other times forming dense and jagged musical interactions, the performers discharging fragmented motifs that ricochet off of one another. 

Timothy McCormack’s subsidence utilises two performers on a single electric lap steel guitar. Capturing the feeling of ongoing collapse, the guitar’s strings are gradually loosened, constantly lowering the pitch until the instrument begins to groan in protest. Gradually, noise occupies the space opened by the mechanical failings of the instrument, transforming the clean, crisp sound of the lap steel into a distorted tangle of sound before being subsumed by silence and the distant echoes of the now fallen strings. 

Finally, Liza Lim’s trumpet solo Roda – The Living Circle, performed here by its dedicatee Tristram Williams, references the energetic space within which the Afro-Brazilian martial arts practice known as capoeira is enacted. The capoeiristas spin and wheel in stylized combat: lyrical, celebratory, transcendent and joyous.

world-line

HCR21 | Richard Barrett: world-line [excerpt]

irkalla

SEIZURES - Orchids

A creepy recording I made while experimenting with loops.

Haunted Beckoning

Jaka Berger - prepared drums
Marina Džukljev - piano
Samo Šalamon - acoustic guitars

Music by Berger, Džukljev and Šalamon
Themes by Jaka Berger

Released at FMR records (UK) in 2019.

Physical copy avaliable:
marinakeys@gmail.com
or
www.fmr-records.com

released May 3, 2019

Recorded by Jure Gruden
Mixed and mastered by Jure Gruden and Jaka Berger
Recorded in Dejan Berden studio in 2018
Artwork by Brgs

https://marinadzukljev.bandcamp.com/album/fresh-dust-trio-hilarious-experts

Fresh Dust Trio - Coal Trains

Sometimes we can drink.. and sometimes we can watch Lana Del Rey.
But sometimes we can feel the vibrations of psychedelic music..
as we can think..

Non-quality piece of Improvisation

Marco Lucchi : toy harp
Pete Swinton : synth and electronics

novembre 2020

Marco Lucchi & Pete Swinton - toy harp nos. 1,2,5

Frozen Yoghurt Promenade

Founded in 2009, Huddersfield Contemporary Records (HCR) is a label devoted to new music. Based at the University of Huddersfield, and established in partnership between CeReNeM (the Centre for Research in New Music), Huddersfield University Press, and hcmf//, HCR features both established and emerging artists at the cutting edge of music making, including diverse innovations in instrumental composition, electronics, and free improvisation. HCR releases have been recorded and produced both in-house at the university and with a broad selection of professional partners, including hcmf//, ZKM, and Radio Bremen, and have attracted exceptional press attention for a label of its size. HCR produces outward-facing compilations, internationally contextualised but centred on new music in the UK. The label develops concept-driven releases, typically featuring a single performing artist and multiple composers, often drawing on the resources of CeReNeM’s industry partnerships and its international research network.  
 
Since 2015, HCR has been exclusively distributed by NMC Recordings.

HCR21 | Richard Barrett: world-line [excerpt]

HCR: Huddersfield Contemporary Records

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