Changes: Contemporary Guitar Music by Cage, Carter, Dashow, Kampela & Reich

Featuring

Arturo Tallini
Domenico Ascione
James Dashow
Steve Reich
John Cage
Elliott Carter

Arthur Kampela

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Compositional Technique

Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint is a multi-tracked instrumental piece where a soloist plays against as many as ten pre-recorded parts, with this work featuring eleven guitar and two bass parts.

Recording & Production

For Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint, Arturo Tallini plays over a pre-recorded tape made by his late colleague, Domenico Ascione, which was reworked for this album by Stefano Tallini.

Composer Biography

James Dashow, an American composer, was a pioneer in computer music, creating the first computer music compositions in Italy at the University of Padua.

Compositional Technique

Arthur Kampela's Percussion Studies for guitar explore new techniques and sounds for the instrument, including using a credit card and a bottle neck to extract unusual sounds.

Performer Biography

Arturo Tallini, the guitarist on this album, is considered an exemplar of contemporary guitar music and has taught at the Conservatory of Music Santa Cecilia in Rome since 2007.

Composition History

John Cage's A Room was originally part of a duo for voice and prepared piano from 1943, but was later extracted as a standalone piece for piano.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Elliott Carter described his piece Changes as 'music of mercurial contrasts of character and mood, unified by its harmonic and rhythmic structure,' taking the form of a conversation with phrases resembling spoken sentences.