Mary Bellamy's piece "Transference" was composed in close collaboration with cellist Séverine Ballon, who developed delicate and unusual techniques through improvised music.
Recording & Production
Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 on this album were recorded with the involvement and presence of the composer.
Composition History
Aaron Cassidy's "And the scream..." is the result of a two-year project with ELISION, drawing inspiration from Francis Bacon's paintings and Gilles Deleuze's interpretation of them.
Compositional Technique
Aaron Cassidy innovated new playing techniques for each instrument in his works, based on 'decoupling' the performer's physical actions like fingers, embouchure, and breath.
Performer Biography
ELISION, the ensemble performing on this album, is Australia's premiere contemporary music ensemble, known for authoritative and virtuosic interpretations of challenging aesthetics.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Liza Lim, one of the composers featured, is drawn to the concept of 'shimmer' in Australian Aboriginal art, which signifies a spiritual reality existing in past, present, and future.
Compositional Technique
Liza Lim's piece "Invisibility" uses a 'guiro' bow, a cello bow with hairs coiled around the wood, to produce an irregular, serrated sound that mimics Aboriginal cross-hatchings.
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