Nathaniel Mackey, a National Book Award-winning poet, can be heard on the track 'Red Wind', reciting excerpts from his poetry collection Blue Fasa.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Composer Sid Richardson explores the intersection of music and literature, drawing inspiration from writers like Beckett, Chaucer, and Nathaniel Mackey to create a style focused on harmony and timbre.
Composer Biography
Sid Richardson, the composer of this album, holds a PhD from Duke University and has received prestigious awards including the Charles Ives Scholarship and the Elliott Carter Memorial Composition Fellowship.
Performer Biography
The Da Capo Chamber Players, featured on 'Astrolabe', are internationally acclaimed and winners of the 1973 Naumburg Award, known for commissioning over 150 works.
Composer Biography
A key influence on composer Sid Richardson was the African-American experimentalist poet Nathaniel Mackey, a National Book Award winner, whose work explores music-language relations.
Performer Biography
Conrad Tao, the pianist on this album, is a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and was named a Gilmore Young Artist, an honor for promising American pianists.
Compositional Technique
Richardson's music features innovative use of timbre and harmony, and a playfulness that American violinist-philosopher Stephen Nachmanovitch would call lîla, an old Sanskrit word for 'divine play'.
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