Ed Bennett: My Broken Machines

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Release Date: 13th Jun 2011
Catalogue No: NMCD169
Label: NMC
Length: 72 minutes

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Bennett, E: Stop-Motion Music

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Bennett, E: Slow Down

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Bennett, E: Cartoon Music

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Bennett, E: Monster

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Bennett, E: for JF

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Bennett, E: My Broken Machines

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Bennett, E: Ghosts

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Ed Bennett’s music, which has been described in the press as ‘anarchic’ (Irish Times), ‘manic’ (Classical Music), ‘brutal’ (The Guardian) and ‘beautiful’ (Gramophone) is often characterized by its strong rhythmic energy, extreme contrasts and the combination of acoustic, electronic and multimedia elements.

In common with a number of composers of his generation, Bennett developed an interest in classical music relatively late – his earlier musical experiences were in bands and improvisation groups and these interests are still evident in his music.

Highlights include Ghosts, for amplified viola d’amore which explores the acoustic peculiarity of the baroque instrument: beneath its seven strings the instrument has seven sympathetic strings creating a ghost-like resonant sound around the bowed notes.

Stop-Motion Music applies to music a ‘stop-start’ technique Bennett admires in the work of surrealist Czech animator Jan Svankmajer and a childhood memory of an old fairground filled with ‘laughing policemen, mechanical fortune tellers, tests of strength, ghost trains and an array of other eccentric machines is the inspiration for My Broken Machine’s.

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November 2011

listening to the super-smart, conceptually refined Slow Down (2011) - music for piano trio never sounded like this before: violin and cello crawl along open string glissandos as pianist Mary Dullea probes the inside of her instrument; harmonies are made thrillingly unstable

Ed Bennett: My Broken Machines

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