Anne Lanzilotti, violist and executive producer for this album, is a scholar specializing in the music of Andrew Norman, and created an online resource for extended string techniques used in his works.
Compositional Technique
In "Bring Something Incomprehensible into This World," the trumpet and voice often blend to create a "dirty unison," where the sounds of words are "smeared" by the trumpet.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Scott Wollschleger views the title of his piece, "Bring Something Incomprehensible into This World," as an affirmative statement that the goal of art should be to render something into existence that was previously inconceivable.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Composer Scott Wollschleger's aesthetic, embodied by the made-up word "Brontal," involves creating art that is basic and human by discovering the sensation of an object.
Compositional Technique
The piece "Brontal Symmetry" is composed of "discarded scraps" of music from other pieces, presented in a memory game where sound objects are revealed and then slowly taken away.
Composer Biography
Scott Wollschleger, a Brooklyn-based composer, explores themes of art in dystopia, the conceptualization of silence, synesthesia, and creative repetition in his distinct musical language.
Performer Biography
Longleash, a piano trio on this album, takes its name from Operation Long Leash, a declassified CIA operation that disseminated American avant-garde art in Europe during the Cold War.
