Two pieces that evolve with grace and inspiration in the vast domain of the sound world, each with their own agenda.
Forma by Lucy Railton, is a work that burrows deep inside. It disorientates and teases, without malice. Its beauty lies in gentle projections, which, though subtle, leave deep impressions, like the wings of a nocturnal moth reflecting dark light. Its path, too, is unpredictable, but such disorientation is not a reflection of chaos. Instead, a mysterious intention appears through an imperious unfolding - its logic escapes us, but nevertheless captivates us. It is the story of a becoming of forms, as well as of their fading away and their appearance as a disappearance.
Metabolist Meter (Foster, Cottin, Caetani and a Fly), by Max Eilbacher is a teeming piece, a matrix where textures and structures merge together, where the polyrhythmic instances become timbre, where the formal abstraction of the harmonic volutes coagulates around a vibrating form that is actualized in the dramatic reality of a dying fly. And this formal mastery is not disembodied in Max Eilbacher's work and the kaleidoscopic forms of the sound spectra that he has deployed know how to resonate in the sensations and experiences of each one.
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Perpetrating the fertile collaboration initiated in 2012 with Recollection GRM, INA GRM and
Editions Mego offer the Portraits GRM complementary series, no longer focused on the "classic" GRM repertoire but towards recent creations commissioned by the GRM to artists from all horizons. Under the aegis of
François J. Bonnet, the Portraits GRM series focuses on important and emerging figures of the experimental music scene and highlights the notion of work rather than album. By reaffirming the concept of musical work, the Portraits GRM series seeks to renew with the pioneering work that the GRM Collection series but also the Philips Prospective 21e Siècle collection had achieved so admirably: offer a panorama of current musical experimentations and embrace a more durable scope with works that manage to extract themselves from an increasingly tyrannical and increasingly hazardous present-time. At a time when nothing knows how to "leave a mark", this series aims to address both current listeners, and explorers of the future. Many releases in the collection are contemporary works by two different musicians, each piece taking up the space of one side. Longer works however, fill an entire record.
The GRM Portraits series program is continued as part of the
Shelter Press label catalog beginning in 2022.
British cellist Lucy Railton is also a performer and co-founder of the London Contemporary Music Festival. Heiress of the
Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) (GRM) created by
Pierre Schaeffer in 1958, her experimental music with electroacoustic sounds is inspired by the work of
Beatriz Ferreyra,
Bernard Parmegiani, Iannis Xenakis, Guy Reibel and
François Bayle, after whom she pushes back the limits of normality.
Emerging from a long-term engagement with contemporary music, her work exists between modern instrumentalism, hard-edged electronic composition and expressive musique concrète.
Her expansive and variegated interests have led to countless collaborations and international appearances, inclulding with inventor and electronic music pioneer Peter Zinovieff, pianist Kit Downes, producer Beatrice Dillon and composer
Kali Malone. Railton regularly performs works by composers such as
Alvin Lucier, Iannis Xenakis,
Morton Feldman and
Pauline Oliveros.
See also
PDP III (Britton Powell, Lucy Railton & Brian Leeds / Huerco S).
Max Eilbacher is a Baltimore-based intermedia artist who works primarily with sound, video, and performance. His sound practice draws upon traditions of electroacoustic, musique concrète composition and process intensive computer music.
