IDAGIO | Parsons: Patterns of Connection — Instrumental Music 1962-2017 5060217670132

Featuring

Nancy Ruffer
Andrew Sparling
Mira Benjamin
Bridget Carey
Anton Lukoszevieze
Philip Thomas

Simon Limbrick
Michael Edward Parsons
Hilary Sturt
Helen Bennett
Kerry Yong
Christopher Redgate

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Michael Parsons aims to combine systems and indeterminacy in his compositions to avoid stereotyped patterns and discover new expressive resources, viewing them as complementary processes.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Composer Michael Parsons's early piano pieces from the 1960s engaged with precise pitch relationships and post-Webern serial methods.

Compositional Technique

Michael Parsons's Apartment House Suites (1998-99) use verbal and diagrammatic notation, allowing performers freedom in pitch, timbre, and timing, leading to spontaneous and unpredictable results.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Michael Parsons's compositional approach was influenced by the Scratch Orchestra's experimental period (1969-71), which favored free improvisation and indeterminate sound materials.

Compositional Technique

Michael Parsons's piano pieces from 2000-2003 use an open form of time-space notation without bar lines, fixed durations, or specific dynamic values, offering performers a range of interpretive opportunities.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Michael Parsons's recent work is influenced by exchanges with visual artists like David Saunders, whose art evolved from strict geometric forms to freer, more spontaneous expression.

Compositional Technique

After the Scratch Orchestra, Michael Parsons adopted a predominantly systematic approach to composition, using precise notation and 'rational' pitch ordering for about 20 years.