Lim: How Forest Think & Cassidy: The Wreck of Former Boundaries: Elision Ensemble at 30

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Aaron Cassidy’s title piece is an electroacoustic concerto for two trumpeters on four instruments, exploiting minutely detailed sounds — not much blasting here. — Sunday Times, 7th May 2017

Release Date: 19th May 2017
Catalogue No: HCR13
Label: Huddersfield Contemporary Records (HCR)
Length: 68 minutes

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Lim: How Forests Think

Work length35:37

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$10.30

Wei Wu (sheng)
Elision Ensemble
Carl Rosman
Recorded: September 1955
Recording Venue: Live recording, Scheveningen, The Netherlands

How Forests Think: I. Tendril & Rainfall

Track length12:58

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$3.85

How Forests Think: II. Mycelia

Track length6:37

$2.05

$1.30

How Forests Think: III. Pollen

Track length5:29

$1.00

$1.30

How Forests Think: IV. The Trees

Track length10:33

$1.00

$3.85

Cassidy: The Wreck of Former Boundaries

Work length33:02

$1.50

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Peter Evans (piccolo trumpet), Tristram Williams (trumpet)
Elision Ensemble

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This album presents major new works commissioned to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the ELISION Ensemble by two composers with longstanding associations with the group. The works foreground the virtuosic, innovative talents of the musicians of ELISION, integrating the ensemble's expertise in improvisation alongside novel instrumental techniques developed in collaboration with these performers. Liza Lim's How Forests Think, featuring the Chinese sheng expert Wu Wei as a guest soloist, relfects on the work of anthropologist Eduardo Kohn, who writes about forest ecologies as the 'living thought' of human and non-human selves. Its music emerges out of criss-crossing conversations patterned like roots, vines, or fungal networks, its emergent forms made from assemblages of instruments whose qualities are like tendrils looking for places on which to clasp and entangle themselves. Aaron Cassidy's The wreck of former boundaries is a double trumpet concerto conceived for the unique talents of ELISION's Tristram Williams and New York-based improviser Peter Evans. Its wild, visceral virtuosity liquidates geometric, architectural, and latticed structures in favour of sinuous, sculptural, and shape-shifting instability. It is a work that sets movement, energy, force, and velocity against states fo friction, resistance, viscosity, and elasticity, revelling in the fluid relationships that arise out of the flickering, gurgling, swerving multi-channel electronics that run across the work's duration.

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7th May 2017

Aaron Cassidy’s title piece is an electroacoustic concerto for two trumpeters on four instruments, exploiting minutely detailed sounds — not much blasting here.

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