#4944, Christopher Rountree: "3 BPM", From the Soundcheck Podcast
Christopher Rountree is probably best known as the conductor of the LA-based new music ensemble known as Wild Up. Over the last 14 years he and that band have played with Bjork, done live film scores to movie screenings, and embarked on a multiyear recording project of the long forgotten and now rediscovered music of Julius Eastman. But Christopher Rountree is also a composer, and his latest work is called 3 BPM. It seems like it might be his reply to the rise of AI in music, because he describes the piece as “a musical framework for being together.” In an open score that could be part map, and part game, the ensemble performs the entirety of 3 BPM in-studio.
Watch "3BPM" via the New Sounds YouTube
The ensemble for this New York in-studio includes:
Christopher Rountree, voice / synth
Catherine Brookman, voice / synth
Nadia Sirota, viola
Adam Tendler, piano
Phong Tran, electronics
Taylor Levine, electric guitar
Rachel Beetz, flute
ARTIST: Christopher Rountree, HOCKET, Wild Up, Nadia Sirota
WORK: 3 BPM: Almanac [1:03]
RECORDING: 3 BPM
SOURCE: Brassland
INFO: wildup.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Christopher Rountree, HOCKET, Wild Up, Nadia Sirota
WORK: 3 BPM [28:20]
RECORDING: Live, for the Soundcheck Podcast, Aug. 2024
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: https://brassland.org/releases/3-bpm
ARTIST: Christopher Rountree, HOCKET, Wild Up, Nadia Sirota
WORK: 3 BPM, excerpt [1:01]
RECORDING: 3 BPM
SOURCE: Brassland
INFO: wildup.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Christopher Rountree, HOCKET, Wild Up, Nadia Sirota
WORK: 3 BPM: Almanac [5:45]
RECORDING: 3 BPM
SOURCE: Brassland
INFO: wildup.bandcamp.com
WORK: Stay On It [2:03]
RECORDING: Julius Eastman Vol. 2: Joy Boy
SOURCE: New Amsterdam Records
INFO: wildup.bandcamp.com
