Æsopica: Music of Marcos Balter

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Release Date: 11th Nov 2016
Catalogue No: TUN004
Label: Tundra
Length: 64 minutes

Balter: Wicker Park

Work length10:24

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Ryan Muncy
Recorded: October 2014
Recording Venue: Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York, United States

Balter: Codex Seraphinianus

Work length17:24

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International Contemporary Ensemble

I. Flora

Track length1:25

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II. Fauna

Track length1:22

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III. Bipeds

Track length0:59

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IV. Hermetica

Track length0:32

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V. Machinery

Track length1:59

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VI. Anthropology

Track length2:03

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VII. Register. Albertine Gone

Track length0:59

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VIII. Linguistics

Track length1:01

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IX. Culture

Track length1:01

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X. Games

Track length3:26

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XI. Architecture

Track length2:37

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Balter: Descent from Parnassus

Work length11:53

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Claire Chase
Recorded: June 2012
Recording Venue: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States

Balter: Ligare

Work length6:30

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International Contemporary Ensemble
Recorded: October 2014
Recording Venue: Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York, United States

Balter: Æsopica Suite

Work length18:08

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Peter Tantsits, Jacob Greenberg
International Contemporary Ensemble
Ross Karre

I. Prologue

Track length1:30

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II. Overture

Track length2:36

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III. The Fly and the Mule

Track length1:49

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IV. The Boastful Lamp

Track length2:24

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V. The Mountain in Labor

Track length1:40

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VI. The Rabbit and the Dog

Track length1:10

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VII. The Wind and the Sun

Track length2:50

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VIII. The Cicada and the Ant

Track length2:37

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IX. Epilogue

Track length1:32

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ICE's new release on it's in-house label, Tundra, highlights a fruitful seven-year collaboration between the ensemble and Brazilian born composer Marcos Balter, featuring five world premiere recordings of works commissioned and championed by the group. + Balter's music absorbs techniques and aesthetics from across the compositional spectrum, adapting them to a sensibility that is consistently sensual, colorful and immediate. The connection between ICE and Balter runs through Chicago, where he served on the composition faculty at Columbia College. + Wicker Park, written for ICE saxophonist and former Chicago residen tRyan Muncy, celebrates a Chicago neighborhood known for it's bohemian spirity and CIY arts scene. Codex Seraphinianus, for flute, soprano saxophone, viola and bassoon is an eleven movement suite inspired by an encyclopedia of imaginary objects by Italian designer Luigi Serafini. + The Art Institute of Chicago asked Claire Chase to commission a composer to write a work inspired by the museum's permanent collection. The result, inspired by Cy Twombly's Return from Parnassus, is Balter's Descent from Parnmassus, a tour de force solo flute work that is two pieces happening simultaneously - a virtuoso fluote solo and a breathless recitation of Book One of Dante's Canto Paradiso at the same time. + Ligare for six instruments employs subtle microtones and whistling to create an atmospheric, disembodied soundscape. The final work, Aesopica, was Balter's first large ensemble piece for ICE. Based on Aesop's fables, Aesopica sets this famous work for children through contemporary music, as Balter draws on his wide pallette to paint whimsical vignettes of sound and fantasy. + This album, then, is a partial compendium of Balter's work over recent years, indeed, in the liner notes, he writes "My music for ICE is very much like a diary of my own trajectory as a composer."

Æsopica: Music of Marcos Balter

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