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Anthony Cheung

Music for Film, Sculpture, and Captions

Label: Kairos

Format: CD

Genre: Compositional

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If you enter into the music of Martin Smolka, prepare yourself to come face-to-face with profound and enigmatic conflicts. The music of Martin Smolka resonates straight into the core of a suffocated planet, suffering through unending catastrophes in the political-social spheres. The Aleph Guitar Quartet and soprano Daisy Press present a selection from Smolka's oeuvre that spans almost 25 years.

*In process of stocking* Music for Film, Sculpture, and Captions is the fifth portrait album of Anthony Cheung’s music and brings together three works for large ensemble. A line can go anywhere: Concerto for Piano and Ensemble (2019) was written with the wire sculptures of Ruth Asawa in mind, and for the forces of Ensemble Modern, with soloist Ueli Wiget and conductor Franck Ollu. The Natural Word (2019), written for Ensemble Dal Niente and conducted by Michael Lewanski, uses stock captions of sounds found in film and television as starting points for transcription, depiction, soundtrack, and Foley. Written in collaboration with video artist Tristan Cook and scholar Sean Zdenek, the piece is an extension of an interest in semiotics, expanded and in dialogue with disability studies and media studies. And null and void (2021) exists as both a musical accompaniment to Stump the Guesser – the irreverent silent film by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson – as well as an independent work on its own. The piece draws on the unique virtuosity of Ensemble Musikfabrik, conducted by Elena Schwarz.

Details
Cat. number: 0022008KAI
Year: 2022