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Lei Liang : Luminous, portrait du compositeur. Karis, Schlosberg, Dresser, Lewanski, Schick.
Format : 1 CD
Durée totale : 01:09:14

Enregistrement : 2015-2016
Lieu : San Diego/Chicago
Pays : Etats-Unis
Prise de son : Stereo

Label : New World
Référence : NW80784
EAN : 0093228078425
Code Prix : DM020A

Année d'édition : 2016
Date de sortie : 01/12/2016

Genre : Classique
Lei Liang (1972-)
Verge Quartet
Trans
The moon is following us
Inkscape
Luminous

Aleck Karis, piano
Daniel Schlosberg, piano
Mark Dresser, contrebasse
Quatuor Formosa
Ensemble Third Coast Percussion
Ensemble Palimpsest
Michael Lewanski, direction
Steven Schick, percussion, direction

The result of a rich confluence of many different cultural threads, a vivid and open imagination, and a rigorous intellect, Lei Liang’s (b. 1972) music has a dimensionality to it that’s quite remarkable. Of course acoustic, often luxuriantly so, it somehow also evokes tactility, it sounds like something that could be touched; it evokes shape and color, it sounds like something that could be seen. There are still other layers of significance, especially language and the drama of narrative action, its great sonic variety possibly conjuring character and scene, emotions and ideas different for each performer and listener. Through myriad avenues of potential perception, Liang’s music reaches out and embraces its audience, its intricacies and complexities part and parcel of its naturalness and its direct but highly nuanced communicative voice. These five compositions represent further explorations of his long-standing research into traditional Asian arts and music and their incorporation into a contemporary music aesthetic. Verge Quartet (2013) is the latest example of Liang’s extensive study of Mongolian music. Trans (2013), written for virtuoso percussionist Steven Schick, incorporates audience participation by having them play more than a hundred pairs of rocks, creating a sonic “cloud” that can be interpreted as rain or other natural sounds. The moon is following us (2015) (for solo piano) represents the composer’s effort to search for a new harmonic language, based on spectral analysis of a Chinese folk song. Liang imagines the composition as a journey through the spectral landscapes hidden within a voice. Inkscape (2014) (for percussion quartet and piano), one of several works in which Liang engages with the idea of Chinese traditional mark-making, either that of calligraphy or painting, is an exploration of the relationship between sound and Chinese ink paintings. In this piece, the piano functions as the “brush,” and the percussion quartet as the “ink.” Luminous (2014) is a concerto written specifically for the innovative bass improviser Mark Dresser. The composer writes, “The instrument’s rich spectra embody ‘voices’ that encompass extreme opposites—lightness and darkness, angels and ghosts, paradise and inferno—unified by a singular vibrating body.”

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