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Ephemeral Rivers

Chamber Works by Cat Hope

Tristen Parr (cello), Aaron Wyatt (viola), Cat Hope (flutes), Lindsay Vickery (bass clarinet), Stuart James (piano, electronics), Louise Devenish (percussion), Zachary Johnston (violin), Lizzy Welsh (violin), Phoebe Grey (viola), Judith Hamman (cello), Samuel Dunscombe (electronics), Vanessa Tomlinson...

Hope has evolved a style that supersedes the notion of genre, drawing together mainstream avant-garde and experimental traditions, acousmatic music and sonic design, noise, found objects and... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2017 More…

Release Date: 18th Aug 2017
Catalogue No: HATNOWART200
Label: hat
Series: hat[now]ART
Length: 55 minutes

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Hope, C: Miss Fortune X

Work length7:06

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Stuart James, Louise Devenish, Lindsay Vickery, Aaron Wyatt, Tristen Parr, Cat Hope

Hope, C: Cruel and Usual

Work length8:03

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Samuel Dunscombe, Judith Hamman, Phoebe Grey, Lizzy Welsh, Zachary Johnston

Hope, C: Broken Approach

Work length12:02

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Vanessa Tomlinson

Hope, C: Dynamic Architecture I

Work length21:36

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Hope, C: Sogno 102

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Stuart James, Louise Devenish, Lindsay Vickery, Aaron Wyatt, Tristen Parr, Cat Hope

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Like all portraits this CD can be read in different ways: it represents a moment in time, not just the artist’s time but our collective time; it is intimate, but in its intimacy it shows us something of the society in which this music was made. The moment in time covers the years between 2011 and 2015, the period in which Cat Hope made the five works gathered here. Each of them inhabits what the composer herself describes as a ‘nexus of electronic and acoustic instruments, animated notations, drone and noise’ and although all of them might be described as chamber music, none of them is a chamber work in the classical sense of music for an exclusively acoustic instrumental ensemble. Instead, in each case the sonic resources of acoustic instruments are located within a musical frame that includes other elements: sometimes, as in Cruel and Usual, the live electronics extend the sounds of the instruments; sometimes the sounds created by the musicians are augmented by, or juxtaposed with other sound sources, such as the AM radio static in Miss Fortune X.

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October 2017

Hope has evolved a style that supersedes the notion of genre, drawing together mainstream avant-garde and experimental traditions, acousmatic music and sonic design, noise, found objects and extended improvisation, post-rock and ambient in contexts that often fuse music with film, video and installation…the ephemeral rivers of this remarkable composer run deep indeed.

Ephemeral Rivers

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