Annesley Black (1979-)
Tolerance stacks
Not thinking about the elephants
A piece that is a size that recognised as not a size but a piece
Industrial drive

Julia Mihaly, soprano
Annesley Black, électronique
Nikola Lutz, saxophone
Mark Lorenz Kysela, console no-input
Martin Lorenz, batterie
Sebastian Berweck, piano, synthétiseur
Nicholas Hodges, piano
Quasar Saxophone Quartet
Composers Slide Quartet
Christof M. Löser, direction

With each composition, Annesley Black embarks courageously on a new experiment with an open future; while at the beginning of the compositional process the material can still mean many things, it gradually ceases to do so. And at some point, all ambiguities are cleared up: the piece stands. The paths that have led to this point are ultimately paradoxical: they are “immensely labyrinthine and completely logical at the same time” (Black). In their own unique way, the pieces gathered on this CD precisely document this exuberant wealth of ideas from which, in her compositional work, Annesley Black draws and which she moderates through the certainty of her aesthetic approach.