Sound recording made by David Stalling, field recordings made by David Stalling in Co.Louth. Cello Séverine Ballon, Clarinet Carol Robinson

Pisaro  Asleep Forest Melody Path  Ballon Robinson Stalling  17 Oct 15

A live recording of Michael Pisaro's "asleep, desert, choir, agnes" (2016) for 22 musicians and 2-channel electronics, written for the University of South Carolina Experimental Music Workshop. The concert took place on September 20, 2016 at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, SC.

asleep, desert, choir, agnes (2016)
Michael Pisaro

University of South Carolina Experimental Music Workshop
Greg Stuart, director

Adam Bailey, Amanda Ferguson,Colby Hesseltine, 
Anna Kulangara, Kelsey Lantz, David Long, Jeremy Martinez, 
Clayton Mims, David Munn Carstensen, Belvin Olasov, Neema Patel, 
Jessica Rotheiser, Bailey Seabury, Justin Stombler, 
Joelle Strom, Nathan Wichmann; percussion/voice

Michelle Beck, horn
Brian Bethea, saxophone
Michael Pisaro, electronics/electric guitar
Philip Snyder, flute
Greg Stuart, percussion/melodica
Emily Stumpf, flute

Recording: Jeff Francis

Program Note:
Agnes Martin called a significant series of paintings from 1997 With My Back to the World.  By “the World” I think she meant what we sometimes call the “real world” – of commerce and the art market, of social life and family, of media and entertainment. But there are multiple worlds, and those paintings are emissaries from another world: of solitude and quiet, of nature and light, and of an emptiness so austere that it becomes radiantly full. This is a world that, unlike the day-to-day life in cities, requires full engagement to perceive at all. 

Martin abandoned New York and her painting career in 1967 (at the age of 55), and resettled in the New Mexico desert. When she began painting again in 1973 her work was markedly different: both lighter in color and mood and deeper in affect. This impression is nearly impossible get from photographs of the paintings, as it seems to lie as much in the manner in which the painting asks us to engage with it as it does with shape or color.

What I hope to do with asleep, desert, choir, agnes is to call up a series of sonic fragments of that world, not as they might actually have been if we’d recorded them, but as if their sonic traces had placed themselves onto one of her canvases. 
–Michael Pisaro

asleep, desert, choir, agnes

An excerpt from 'Without', a piece composed for the duo of Erik Carlson (violin) and Greg Stuart (percussion). Released in October 2018 in elsewhere.

https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/without
http://www.elsewheremusic.net/

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Clara de Asís - Without (2018) 43:10

Erik Carlson - violin
Greg Stuart - percussion

recorded by Erik Carlson and Greg Stuart at Conrad Prebys Music Center, UCSD, La Jolla, CA on July 9, 2018
mixed by Erik Carlson
cover photo and inside photo by David Sylvian
design by Yuko Zama
produced by Erik Carlson, Greg Stuart, and Yuko Zama
executive produced by Jon Abbey 
©2018 elsewhere music

Without (excerpt 2) / for Erik Carlson & Greg Stuart (elsewhere, 2018)

percussionist. university of south carolina.

asleep, desert, choir, agnes

Greg Stuart

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