To Eye Apart (from In Glow of Like Seclusion)
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- From ‘In Glow of Like Seclusion’
Samuel Andreyev
performed by Ensemble Proton Bern
Peyee Chen, Soprano
Luigi Gaggero, Conductor
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Poem by J H Prynne, from ‘Or Scissel’ (Shearsman Books, UK, 2018)
TO EYE APART
To eye apart fine arrow key you know leaf
greeted in fading search ahead, acres ready
set aside, nothing happens here. Eye-brow
lucid to miss low density, synthetic honey
spread remember within walled crannies: fork
up paint both hands, manner graft to pack
by willing sips, stand up, nocturnal at beat
first. As besides termly will either, neither.
Footage shot in Kehl (DE) and Strasbourg (FR)
Thumbnail image: Friedensstrasse, Kehl
Photograph © Samuel Andreyev 2023
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Excellent! I'm surprised to hear music like this composed 100 years after the Second Viennese School. I like it.
My favorite movement of a very beautiful cycle. If I get the chance I will program it on my radio show.
Thanks!
I really enjoyed this CD - especially the cantata and title piece. This is first album I have bought by a contemporary composer since Heinz Holliger and Gyorgy Kurtag's " Zwiegesprache" .
Beautifull. It really has a natural directional flow. I already find that a mysterious skill in tonal music, but in atonal music even more so. The style is wonderfull. Maybe the most important subject in the art of composition : how to make / what makes music goal oriented. I never read a good chapter on that subject in theory books. They talk about everything except the essence : how to make music flow forward.
When I was 19, I had a single lesson with a distinguished Canadian composer. He was very ill with cancer and died shortly afterwards. He gave me a piece of advice I never forgot: Harmony is your life’s blood. Thanks for your kind words.
I have listened to the album multiple times since it came out and I have to say that it is really really captivating music!
Merci Samuel, vos vidéos m'ont beaucoup apporté et j'ai adoré votre nouvel album, surtout All Such to Life et To Eye Apart
Can’t get over how beautiful this is.
Many thanks, that’s very kind
Have you considered making a video analyzing/ explaining some of your own music? I think it would be extremely fascinating to hear a composers thought process about their own pieces. What are you trying to do? How do you do it? etc. etc. Could also help people who would otherwise struggle listening to your music.
Thanks. I would advise those struggling with my work to listen to something else instead.
Sublime!
Very nice, it would be lovely to hear you speak about the original poems. Are the vocal jumps Webern-ispired? I've listened extensively to the rest of the album as well and I am very happy you decided to re-record Verifications, sounds amazing! I also like the contrast it creates after the darkness of the second part of the sextet
Thanks - there is an essay about the texts I set on my website, in the ‘writings’ section. I don’t hear this piece as having a lot of vocal jumps, personally, but perhaps it’s relative..
Thank you I will give it a look. Focusing on the voice I got the impression that it's the expressive tension in the wider intervals that made me perceive the jumps as bigger
This is gorgeous, Samuel. Thank you for posting. I will listen again soon.
What a beautiful work
You wrote this? This is awesome. It reminds me a bit of Henry Cow, but piano does voicings and figures that remind me of Scriabin. I've never heard something like this though.
Thanks
The way her voice hangs when she says "nothing happens *here*" is beautiful. It feels like a musical number from some experimental psychological film. Love this, I'll order a CD.
Wow
sodelicious...
What was it like getting permission to set Prynne? Is he totally open to settings of his poetry, or did he need some coaxing?
I had tea with him at his house in Cambridge and he was very accommodating and kind.