Eric Chasalow: Left To His Own Devices

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Music Review: Fun New Music
Rating: 5 Stars

This is one of four recordings now out or soon to be out from the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. I have also reviewed and raved about Rochberg's Black Sounds. Foss' opera Griffelkin is forthcoming, and Machover's Hyperstring Trilogy has recently been released.

Description of Eric Chasalow: Left To His Own Devices

"Over the years, the technology available to me has changed dramatically, from the hand-made cutting and splicing of the analog studio, to MIDI automation and, currently, graphical computer-based sound editing environments. While the newer tools have made the process of realizing electronic music much easier, my fundamental musical approach to these pieces has not changed much. At the core is the tradition created by the work of Mario Davidovsky. In this tradition, one uses prerecorded sounds to expand upon the acoustical characteristics of the live instruments?the real origin of the "hyperinstrument" concept. What may be obvious is that the timbre of a traditional instrument in performance may be changed by adding electronic components?a kind of heightened orchestration? While my studio technique derives from Davidovsky, the musical character is quite different. My instrumental writing is often at an energy level drawn from my experience with improvised jazz. My recent electronic music reflects this as well. By adding layers of manipulated recordings of spoken or sung text, the sound of the human voice often emerges in surprising ways." ?Eric Chasalow

Of related interest:
80440-2 Eric Chasalow ? Over the Edge
80521-2 Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center

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