Experimentalstudio, Forty Years Anthology, Vol.2 - Chaya Czernowin, Mark Andre

Experimentalstudio, forty years anthology, volume 2

Works by Chaya Czernowin and Mark Andre

SouthWest Radio ExperimentalStudio. Munich. NEOS

Chaya Czernowin: Shu Hai mitamen behatalat kidon

Mark Andre: ab II

The EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR, founded in 1971, views itself as an interface between compositional ideas and their technical realization. Every year several composers and musicians are invited to accept a fellowship in order to realize their works with the EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO's special equipment in interaction with its staff members - experts in computer music, sound designers, studio engineers, and sound directors. The studio then takes an active role in the worldwide performance of these works. With more than 40 years of activity in the international music scene, the studio has become the leading center for ambitious works of music with live electronics. It gives concerts on an ongoing basis at all major festivals (including Berliner Festwochen, Wiener Festwochen, Salzburg Festival, Festival d'Automne à Paris, Venice Biennale) and in renowned music theaters and concert halls (including Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Carnegie Hall in New York, Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, and Teatro Real in Madrid). Its outstanding productions include works by such significant composers as Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Cristóbal Halffter, Vinko Globokar, and Luigi Nono.

This CD includes Shu Hai mitamen behatalat kidon (1997) by Chaya Czernowin (b. 1957) and ab II (1996/1997) by Mark Andre (b. 1964). Czernowin's piece, for one female voice and nine pre-recorded reflections with live electronics, is performed by Noa Frenkel, alto voice, with mixing by Reinhold Braig and sound direction by Braig and Simon Spillner. Andre's piece, for contrabass clarinet, cello, cimbalom, percussion, piano, and live electronics, is performed by Collegium Novum Zürich (Elmar Schmid, contrabass clarinet; Imke Frank, cello; Françoise Rivalland, cimbalom; Martin Lorenz, percussion; and Christoph Grund, piano) conducted by Detlef Heusinger, with sound direction by Michael Acker, Sven Kestel, and Joachim Haas.

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As diverse as Chaya Czernowin’s individual creative phases are, there has always been in her musical language a distinctive way of working with the characteristics of individual sounds, developed with the most refined rhythmic, coloristic, and sound nuances; there is also a deliberate search for emotional extremes, which always give the pieces a physical and existential power.

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Born in Paris in 1964, Mark Andre studied with Gérard Grisey in his home city and Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart, and it has been the German composer's world and his fascination with the way sounds are produced, rather than the Frenchman's harmonic sophistication, that has left the bigger imprint on Andre's own works.

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[01] - Chaya Czernowin (1957) Shu Hai mitamen behatalat kidon (1997) 29:31 for one female voice and nine pre-recorded reflections with live electronics Text: Zohar Eitan Noa Frenkel, alto voice Pre-recorded tape: 18–21 December 2006 Studio 2, EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR Noa Frenkel, alto voice Reinhold Braig / Chaya Czernowin, recording Reinhold Braig, mixing [02] - Mark Andre (1964) ab II (1996/1997) 27:07 for contrabass clarinet, cello, cimbalom, percussion, piano and live electronics COLLEGIUM NOVUM ZÜRICH Elmar Schmid, contrabass clarinet · Imke Frank, cello Françoise Rivalland, cimbalom · Martin Lorenz, percussion Christoph Grund, piano Detlef Heusinger, conductor EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR Michael Acker / Sven Kestel / Joachim Haas, sound direction