Browse by Artist: CAMERON, ALLISON

Artist:	CAMERON, ALLISON
Title:	Raw Sangudo
Label:	XI
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	XI 112CD

Debut release of music by a new Canadian composer, who has studied under the likes of Andriessen, Rzewski and James Tenney. "Her compositions can be characterized as rigorous study forms with which specific sound worlds are explored. She experiments with the physicality of sound on various instruments, using pithy material to exploit instrumental colours. Most of her works to date have been written for a variety of chamber ensembles encompassing both traditional and unusual groups of instruments." "Cameron writes chamber works...with no themes, few gestures, rarely a rhythm aside from slow, steady beats. Fragile and suspended, underlaid by long, long chords, they would be almost metaphysically gloomy if they weren't so colorful. My favorite, 'A Blank Sheet of Metal', starts off like slowly pulsating Feldman before dissipating into near stillness and a chord repeated at surreally extended intervals. The music reminds me of the painter de Chirico's sad surrealism." -- Kyle Gann.

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