#5151 Music for Multiples
Photo of Julia-Kent by PEPE
Hear music built around the sounds of a single instrument: violin in music by Christopher Tignor, cello in work by Julia Kent, and electric guitars in music by the late Glenn Branca.
There’s music by New York-based Canadian cellist and composer Julia Kent who combines multiple layers and loops of her cello, “weaving electronics and field recordings into soundscapes that place humans in dialogue with the natural world around them”, (Met Museum.) Listen to from her 2019 record, Temporal, originally written to accompany theatre and dance productions.
Then, hear music for “solo interactive violin” and percussion and by composer, violinist, arranger, lecturer, and software engineer, Christopher Tignor from his latest record, Bleeding Past the Edges. On it, Tignor eschews the machine processes in the current musical landscape, instead harness the human element - working with tuning forks, pedals, and custom software, generating each piece in real time, capturing and reshaping sound as he plays. With his violin strings he bows and plucks, as one might a violin, and then there are these chimey noises, generated by Tignor “hitting a triangle with a tuning fork and placing the fork on the bridge of his violin. This resonance is interpreted by his software to generate the electronics one hears”, (louderthanwar.com). Listen to some of his suite Shadow Purposes, where motoric percussive patterns and elegiac melodic passages combine to wrap a listener in what feels like an orchestral embrace. SEE Christopher Tignor perform some of these pieces at the album release show in New York, on June 12 at Public Records, on a bill with Julia Kent.
Also, hear some of the late composer Glennn Branca’s Symphony No. 13, aka Hallucination City, for 100 electric guitars and a drummer. The guitar orchestra, retuned to just intonation, plays uninterrupted for just over an hour; and the work has become “notorious for its maximalism, eccentric tuning, and overwhelming intensity”, (LincolnCenter.org). Plus, New York-based American composer Mary Jane Leach’s 8-part piece, Celestial Fires, for a capella women's voices featuring the New York Treble Singers (Virginia Davidson, conductor), rounds out the show. -Caryn Havlik
Program #5151, Music for Multiples (First aired 6/9/26)
ARTIST: Julia Kent
WORK: Last Hour Story [1:22]
RECORDING: Temporal
SOURCE: The Leaf Label
INFO: https://music.juliakent.com/album/temporal
ARTIST: Christopher Tignor
WORK: Shadow Purposes I. Patterns of Goodbye [4:23]
RECORDING: Bleeding Past the Edges
SOURCE: Western Vinyl
INFO: https://christophertignor.bandcamp.com/album/bleeding-past-the-edges
ARTIST: Christopher Tignor
WORK: Shadow Purposes III. New Tectonics [6:36]
RECORDING: Bleeding Past the Edges
SOURCE: Western Vinyl
INFO: https://christophertignor.bandcamp.com/album/bleeding-past-the-edges
ARTIST: Christopher Tignor
WORK: Shadow Purposes IV. The Blue Cascades [3:09]
RECORDING: Bleeding Past the Edges
SOURCE: Western Vinyl
INFO: https://christophertignor.bandcamp.com/album/bleeding-past-the-edges
ARTIST: Julia Kent
WORK: Last Hour Story [12:15]
RECORDING: Temporal
SOURCE: The Leaf Label
INFO: https://music.juliakent.com/album/temporal
ARTIST: Glenn Branca
WORK: Glenn Branca: Symphony No. 13, "Hallucination City" - Chant [9:08]
RECORDING: Symphony No. 13 (Hallucination City) For 100 Guitars
SOURCE: Atavistic
INFO: Available at AppleMusic, YouTube, Spotify, and Amazon
ARTIST: Mary Jane Leach
WORK: Bruckstück [12:25]
RECORDING: Celestial Fires
SOURCE: Experimental Intermedia Foundation / XI Recordings
INFO: https://xirecords.bandcamp.com/album/celestial-fires
