Browse by Artist: LANG, DAVID

Artist:	LANG, DAVID
Title:	The Passing Measures
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21003CD

David Lang's newest lush and meditative work: a 43-minute ambient extravaganza for bass clarinet, amplified orchestra and women's voices. "More and more I have become convinced that one of the noblest things you can do in a piece of 'serious' music is to allow for an experience that can't happen in your everyday life. My piece is about the struggle to create beauty. A single very consonant chord falls slowly over the course of forty minutes. That is the piece. Every aspect of the piece is on display, however -- magnified, examined, amplified, prolonged. The soloist's notes are impossibly long, requiring frequent drop-outs for breath and for rest. The players are all instructed to play as quietly as possible, and then are amplified at high volume, in order to make their restraint an issue of the piece. Four percussionists scrape pieces of junk metal from start to finish, as if to accompany the consonance of the chords with sounds of dirt and decay." -- David Lang

Artist:	LANG, DAVID
Title:	Child
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21013CD

"David Lang follows his highly-acclaimed Cantaloupe debut The Passing Measures with this major new work for seven musicians. Child is a powerful meditation on childhood and memory. Sweet and simple on the surface, gentle musical fragments float by, leaving faint traces of darkness in their wake. The result is at once dramatic and personal, intensely introspective and piercingly beautiful. Written in five separate parts for some of Europe's finest groups, Child is recorded here by the Italian ensemble Senrierri Selvaggi."

Artist:	LANG, DAVID
Title:	Elevated
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21029CD

"Dark, emotional and exquisitely beautiful, David Lang's new CD Elevated has premiere recordings of three recent works. Taken together, these pieces create a world in while consonance fights dissonance, hope struggles against hopelessness, and simple melodies are constantly beset by gravity, weight and decay. This DVD captures collaborations between Lang and three giants of contemporary visual arts: pioneer William Wegman, experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison (Decasia), and conceptual artist Matt Mullican. Lang used his pieces as a way to open up different pathways to these artists and their work, setting an early (and very controversial) Wegman video to music, and giving music to Morrison and Mullican for them to build new visuals around. The results are stunning, moody and sometimes very disturbing."

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