The composer's works are also 'scenes,' stage-managed fictions with a narrative arc and a moral intent, offering complicated pleasures like confusion, frustration, pathos, and horror.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Nicholas Vines' music is characterized by 'torrid nature scenes,' meaning it is heated from within by creative engines, full of anxious, ebullient fragments that rub against each other.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Vines' compositions are described as landscapes of sound, painted with broad brushstrokes of pattern and color, but also revealing geological layers of texture and procedures.
Composer Biography
Nicholas Vines, born in Sydney in 1976, is an Australian composer whose music has been performed internationally and described as 'compellingly original' and 'full, extravagant and wild'.
Performer Biography
Eliot Gattegno, the saxophonist on this album, is a recipient of the prestigious 'Kranichsteiner Musikpreis' for the interpretation of new music, awarded by the International Music Institute Darmstadt.
Performer Biography
Stephen Drury, pianist and conductor of the Callithumpian Consort, has performed globally and is a champion of contemporary music, having taken dissonance to remote corners of Pakistan, Greenland, and Montana.
Recording & Production
All tracks on this album were recorded in Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory, with different recording dates and producers for various pieces.
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