Aaron Cassidy: The Crutch of Memory / Elision Ensemble

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Album Summary

Performers

• Tristram Williams (Trumpet)
• Benjamin Marks (Trombone)
• Carl Rosman (Clarinet)
• Richard Haynes (Clarinet)

Conductor

• Buckley, Daryl

Ensembles

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• Elision Ensemble

Composer

• Aaron Cassidy (Composer) (1976 - )

Notes & Reviews:

The works on this disc trace the ongoing history of a straight forward but fundamental re-conception of instrumental performance, followed through uncompromisingly to uncover a new, alien world of musical material. That conception is the idea of instrumental decoupling: the independent treatment of the physical components of performance (embouchure and fingers on a wind instrument, for example, or the two hands of a string player). A simple, if counterintuitive, idea. But right away, pursued with Cassidy's diligence and self-awareness, consequences multiply: the dismantling of a performer's acquired physical, musical and technical relationship to his instrument; a shift in emphasis from the sounds produced to the means of producing them; the displacement of pitch from its inherited position at the center of musical discourse; the necessity of new hierarchies and new perceptual vocabularies.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: ABC Ferry Road Brisbane, Studio 420 (07/27/2008); Sendesaal Bremen (07/27/2008); ABC Ferry Road Brisbane, Studio 420 (2010-09-03_2010-09-05&2010-); Sendesaal Bremen (2010-09-03_2010-09-05&2010-).

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Works Details

Cassidy, Aaron [Composer] : The Crutch of Memory, for solo string instrument

• Conductor: Daryl Buckley
• Ensemble: Elision Ensemble
• Running Time: 4 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 2004

Cassidy, Aaron [Composer] : Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion :: What then renders these forces visible is a

• Performers: Tristram Williams (Trumpet); Tristram Williams (Trumpet)
• Conductor: Daryl Buckley
• Notes: Sendesaal Bremen (09/03/2010-09/05/2010)
• Running Time: 5 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 2008

Cassidy, Aaron [Composer] : Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion :: Because they mark the zone where the force i

• Performers: Benjamin Marks (Trombone); Benjamin Marks (Trombone)
• Conductor: Daryl Buckley
• Notes: Sendesaal Bremen (09/03/2010-09/05/2010)
• Running Time: 4 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 2008

Cassidy, Aaron [Composer] : Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion :: Being itself a catastrophe, the diagram must

• Conductor: Daryl Buckley
• Ensemble: Elision Ensemble
• Notes: Sendesaal Bremen (09/21/2010-09/23/2010)
• Running Time: 9 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 2008

Cassidy, Aaron [Composer] : I, purples, spat blood, laugh of beautiful lips, for voice & live electronics

• Performers: Carl Rosman (Clarinet); Carl Rosman (Clarinet)
• Conductor: Daryl Buckley
• Ensemble: Elision Ensemble
• Notes: Sendesaal Bremen (09/21/2010-09/23/2010)
• Running Time: 4 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 2006

Cassidy, Aaron [Composer] : Metallic Dust, for amplified bass clarinet

• Performers: Carl Rosman (Clarinet); Carl Rosman (Clarinet)
• Conductor: Daryl Buckley
• Notes: Sendesaal Bremen (09/21/2010-09/23/2010)
• Running Time: 4 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1999

Cassidy, Aaron [Composer] : Asphyxia, for soprano saxophone

• Performers: Richard Haynes (Clarinet); Richard Haynes (Clarinet)
• Conductor: Daryl Buckley
• Notes: Sendesaal Bremen (09/21/2010-09/23/2010)
• Running Time: 10 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 2000

Cassidy, Aaron [Composer] : Songs only as sad as their listener, for solo trombone

• Performers: Benjamin Marks (Trombone); Benjamin Marks (Trombone)
• Conductor: Daryl Buckley
• Notes: Sendesaal Bremen (09/03/2010-09/05/2010)
• Running Time: 13 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 2006