{"product_id":"1087014","title":"Plus-minus Ensemble - Joanna Bailie: Artificial Environments [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe chamber works on this portrait album, the latest in our Debut Discs series, demonstrate Joanna Bailie's distinct and powerful skill of mixing field recordings and other found audio material alongside partial transcriptions, which are played simultaneously on acoustic instruments. The effect is otherworldly and immersive.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the three-part Symphony-Street-Souvenir Bailie pays homage to the Italian composer Aldo Clementi (1925-2011). She borrows and twists one of Clementi's compositional techniques, and introduces some of his musical obsessions. 'Symphony' uses the opening of the C minor symphony of Brahms, one of Clementi's favourite composers; 'Street', a Copenhagen carillon (with accompanying ambient street sounds); and 'Souvenir' a music box. Over these a mixed chamber ensemble interweaves subtle layers and slow glissandi.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrains features fragments of music on solo cello over a textural bed of radically slowed down audio material. In Artificial Environments Nos. 1 to 5 you hear the composer's voice, like a futuristic tour guide in a science fiction world with recorded sounds captured in locations around Europe \\u2013 the hills of Umbria, Copenhagen, Malm\\xf6, London and Brussels and in Artificial Environments No. 8 the solo piano is paired with an urban soundscape, recorded whilst walking up and down a queue of tourists waiting to enter Notre Dame in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSymphony-Street-Souvenir I Symphony\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSymphony-Street-Souvenir II Street\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSymphony-Street-Souvenir III Souvenir\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrains\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtificial Environments Nos. 1 to 5 No. 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtificial Environments Nos. 1 to 5 No. 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtificial Environments Nos. 1 to 5 No. 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtificial Environments Nos. 1 to 5 No. 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtificial Environments Nos. 1 to 5 No. 5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtificial Environment No. 8 I \\u2026and the dreams that you dare to dream\\u2026\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtificial Environment No. 8 II Babel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtificial Environment No. 8 III Street\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55134486790529,"sku":"1087014","price":16.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/51KbVifFgpL._SL1500.jpg?v=1767127110","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/1087014","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}