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Michael Pisaro, Shira Legmann

Barricades

Label: Elsewhere

Format: CD

Genre: Compositional

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€15.00
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**500 copies** This album contains LA-based composer Michael Pisaro's recent composition Barricades, a 63-minute piece for piano and electronics. Consisting of thirteen studies (piano pieces, some with electronics) and two electronic interludes, the piece is performed by Israel-based pianist Shira Legmann, with Pisaro on electronics. Legmann's clean, supple yet solid piano sounds, employing a wide dynamic range, add a sense of organic life to the composition. Her whispery nuances and mysterious atmosphere, intertwining with Pisaro's underlying sine tones, create a compelling balance between coolness and emotion, distance and closeness, and result in a tranquil yet captivating contemporary work with an echo of the French Baroque.

"Barricades has a distant but decisive relationship to the keyboard music of Louis and François Couperin. The title refers to Les Barricades Mystérieuses by François Couperin – and to the technique of overlapping, interlocking voices, creating a thicket or web-like texture. I have loved the music of the Couperins since college, but it was when Shira sent me some of her favorite music to play, and Les Barricades Mystérieuses was among the scores, that the idea for this piece began to crystallize. The process of writing and working on the piece with Shira was one of watching the barricades, which I pictured as a network of twisted vines, unravel." - Michael Pisaro

Details
Cat. number: elsewhere 009
Year: 2019
The American master brings out the purity of Legmann’s acoustic sound amplifying it through a parallel simulacrum, a discreet shadow which nevertheless ends up undertaking a supporting role in the delineation of a “foreign” and timeless musical dimension.