portrait RE / Flux / Pacific Time

Featuring

Michael Lewanski
Ensemble Dal Niente
Igor Santos
George Lewis
Carola Bauckholt

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Composer Carola Bauckholt's inspiration often comes from noises, and she aims to build a 'stage' or 'sound space' for them, creating scenes where sounds can unfold.

Album & Artwork

The album cover artwork by Ben Chlapek features three circles, which are a graphic representation used by composer Carola Bauckholt in the score of her piece, Pacific Time.

Composer's Artistic Vision

George Lewis's Flux is a sonic response to a 1988 painting by Jeff Donaldson, JamPact JelliTite (for Jamila), aiming to capture Donaldson's call for 'Color that is expressively awesome… superreal color.'

Compositional Technique

In Carola Bauckholt's Pacific Time, performers use instruments, objects, and toys to create white noise spectra, with the opening featuring 'jaycalls' and the end incorporating 'waldteufels' (German folk instruments).

Compositional Technique

Igor Santos's portrait RE begins with familiar sounds like record player pops and scratches, then transitions to digital sounds such as text message dings or email notifications, triggering memories and inducing behavior.

Composition History

Igor Santos's portrait RE was made possible by a commission from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress and is dedicated to Ensemble Dal Niente.

Compositional Technique

Pacific Time by Carola Bauckholt includes an extended percussion solo played on three differently sized resonant wooden boxes arranged so a stick can skate across them to create distinct unpitched sounds.