Mary Jane Leach
composer/performer whose work reveals a fascination with the physicality of sound, its acoustic properties and how they interact with space. In many of her works Leach creates an other-worldly sound environment using difference, combination, and interference tones; these are tones not actually sounded by the performers, but acoustic phenomena arising from her deft manipulation of intonation and timbral qualities. The result is striking music which has a powerful effect on listeners.
Pipe Dreams
Rare 2019 re-press on clear vinyl in an edition of 100 copies of the 2017 Blume LP with two previously unreleased superb minimalist droning pieces for organ and for clarinets from the mid-1980's by the American composer. With obi.
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Mary Jane Leach, Gordon Mumma, Charles Amirkhanian, Peter Garland, John Zorn, Lois V. Vierk, Gordon Monahan, Mamoru Fujieda, Sarah Hopkins, John Bergamo
Soundings XVI (book)16th volume of the Soundings collection of scores and texts edited by Peter Garland published in 1990 and including works by John Zorn, Sarah Hopkins, Lois V Vierk, Mary Jane Leach, Mamoru Fujieda, Charles Amirkhanian, Gordon Mumma, Gordon Monahan, J…
Pipe Dreams II / III
Mary Jane Leach's Pipe Dreams II and III, recorded on the organs of Miry Concertzaal, Gent (2023) and Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne (2024): beating tones and antiphonal clouds of sound, following the 1989 original issued by Blume.
Fame di Vento
Huge Tip! Fame di Vento is Manuel Zurria's latest work. A triple CD to evoke the many suggestions and projects that have taken place in recent years, full of collaborations, of the Sicilian flautist. Fame Di Vento is also an idealized homage to Aligh…
Woodwind Multiples
Biggest Tip! Mary Jane Leach is a composer focussed on the physicality of sound, its acoustic properties and how they interact with space. She has played an instrumental role in NYC’s pioneering Downtown scene alongside Arthur Russell, Ellen Fullman,…
We Have Delivered Ourselves From the Tonal - Of, Towards, On, For Julius Eastman
2022 Repress * Softcover, English, 260 pages, B/W*An absolutely stunning achievement, “We Have Delivered Ourselves From the Tonal – Of, Towards, On, For Julius Eastman” - published by Archive Books and SAVVY Contemporary - gathers a collection of ess…
Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music
Composer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. His music, insistent and straightforw…
(F)lute Songs
Four pieces for flute and voice composed between 1985-2018 by Mary Jane Leach, a pivotal part of NYC’s pioneering avant-garde community since the 1970s and an active member of the legendary DownTown Ensemble, working alongside peers including Arthur …
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Ariadne's Lament
Mary Jane Leach (b 1949) explores the physicality of sound, working very carefully with the timbres of instruments, creating combination, difference, and interference tones. The use of sound phenomena, however, is only a means to an end, the ultimate…
Landscape with Tears
At his third release for our Zeit Composer Series, the talented Italian flute player Manuel Zurria has given birth to some of the most heartbreaking music ever published by Die Schachtel. A moving and incredibly clever transcription for flutes, gla…
Celestial Fires
The works of Mary Jane Leach explore the physicality of sound, working very carefully with the timbres of instruments, creating combination, difference, and interference tones. Space is also an important concern: how sound changes when it is moved ar…