Composer Ross Feller challenges at least one compositional given or supposition in each piece, exploring questions rather than providing stable answers.
Composer Biography
Ross Feller, a virtuosic saxophonist, is deeply engaged with music in a visceral way, understanding the physicality of making it and committed to improvisation.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Ross Feller's music is influenced by contemporary intellectual forces such as new physics, genetic biology, and poststructuralist philosophy.
Composer Biography
Ross Feller is an accomplished composer, theorist, saxophonist, improviser, and educator who grew up near Chicago, engaging with its avant-garde jazz and new music scenes.
Compositional Technique
Several works on this album use electroacoustic resources, with Feller employing technology subtly to create vast impacts, such as a dreamlike aura or unexpected breadth.
Compositional Technique
Feller's music often treats sound as a primary material, bending and smearing it, with layers bleeding into one another or detaching, and instruments overlapping to create morphing meta-instruments.
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