The piece "Timelash" is the oldest work on the album, dating back to 1999, with minor revisions made since its original composition.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Christopher Bailey's music on this album channels eclectic sources of inspiration through a focused set of compositional tools, exploring microtonality and fragmentary ideas.
Compositional Technique
"Passacaglia After Hall & Oates 2" is a follow-up to an earlier solo piano work by Bailey, applying a "minimalism as a way into maximalism" approach to pop-inspired materials.
Compositional Technique
In "Timelash," Christopher Bailey treats the acoustic ensemble as if it were an electronic instrument, creating hybrid timbres and unique sound envelopes.
Compositional Technique
Several pieces on the album, including "Retreat" and "Arc of Infinity," explore microtonality, with "Retreat" using Just Intonation and "Rain Lullaby" using 17 equal-divisions-of-the-octave tuning.
Compositional Technique
The piece "Retreat" combines live acoustic elements with electronically-realized elements, modeled after the music of Wendy Carlos, a pioneer in electronic music.
Instruments
"Rain Lullaby" is written for an unorthodox instrument called the udderbot, a blown bottle with flexible pitch, performed by Jacob Barton.
