Alexis Descharmes, solo cello on mode records

Colombi Daydream

FIXITIES, MERCURIAL, and ALTERNATION from Book I
Eric Huebner, Piano

Piano Etudes, Book I ("Fixities", "Mercurial," and "Alternation" from Book I)

A passage from Ariadne's Thread (1994), for string quartet and quadraphonic computer sound. As recorded by the Arditti Quartet for a double-CD of Reynolds's string music. (290K, 01:58.8)
CD: Quatour Arditti/Roger Reynolds
Label: Auvidis / Naïve MO 782083

Ariadne's Thread

A passage from imAge/violin (2015) 
Irvine Arditti, Solo Violin
Kairos

imAge/Violin

Brief excerpt from The Emperor of Ice Cream (1961-62) 
LP: America Sings/The Gregg Smith Singers
Label: Turnabout TV 34759
Copyright © 2000 Roger Reynolds

The Emperor Of Ice Cream

george WASHINGTON for Orchestra, 3 Narrators, Video projection, 
Real-time sound processing and spatialization, extended sound excerpt. National Symphony, conductor Christoph Eschenbach

george WASHINGTON NSO 1

Text: poems by John Ashbery
Electronic Music Foundation Media
From January 2017, distributed by Innova Recordings with EMF Media permission

LAST THINGS, I THINK, TO THINK ABOUT, song VI "Faust" (1994)

Movement VI, "The Portrait's Will To Endure"

Whispers Out Of Time, Movement VI

Solo Clarinet, Real-time algorithmic transformation
Anthony Burr, Clarinet, Jacob Sundstrom, Real-time algorithmic transformation
Premiere, Society for Music Perception and Cognition Conference
Calit2 Auditorium
University of California San Diego

Toward Another World: LAMENT

The JACK Quartet and I worked together first in 2012, when they performed my not forgotten at the National Gallery of Art. They subsequently invited me to work with them in other contexts, and eventually commissioned a string quartet that serves as the musical spine of my intermedia work, FLiGHT. This disc is the fruit of a rewarding six-year collaboration. 
                                                                                                           ~ Roger Reynolds

FLiGHT String Quartet, Movement II: "Preparing"

Roger Reynolds: composer, writer, producer and mentor, pioneer in sound spatialization, intermedia and also algorithmic concepts, an inveterate synthesizer of diverse capacities and perspectives. His notorious (1961) composition, “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” which uses graphic notation to depict performer location on a stage, was widely imitated. In it, eight singers and a jazz trio gloss, while musically manifesting, a Wallace Stevens poem. In fact, Reynolds’s work often arises out of text. One of his Ircam commissions, “Odyssey” (1989-93) sets a bilingual Beckett text; his Pulitzer prize-winning composition, “Whispers Out of Time,” for string orchestra, muses over a poem by John Ashbery. The FLiGHT project arose out of a collection of texts that stretches from Plato to astronaut Michael Collins. This body of work demonstrates how seamlessly text, electroacoustic resources, and novel presentation strategies can be melded with live instrumental and vocal performance.

Roger Reynolds

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