object/animal, by Ensemble Dal Niente

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1.	LJ White; Ensemble Dal Niente - We Don't Eat Dead Things 07:55	info
2.	Jeff Parker; Ensemble Dal Niente - Water on Glass 08:02	info
3.	Murat Çolak; Ensemble Dal Niente - SWAN 28:47	info

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What Jeff Parker, LJ White, and Murat Çolak—three otherwise very different musicians—seem to share are practices that span or genre-defy in ways that are often pretended to but rarely achieved. In every piece on this album, some number of pre-existing pop, trance, film music, musique concrète, or other elements have been transformed into music written for contemporary classical champions Ensemble Dal Niente.

Scored for an unusual mix of players (two sopranos, saxophone, french horn, harp, cello, electric bass, violin, and random percussion instruments including ratchets and beer cans), LJ White’s We Don't Eat Dead Things adapts lyrics by Christopher the Conquered, a singer-songwriter based in Iowa. It opens with a tolling electric bass interspersed with the crackling of a beer can hitting harp strings - an asymmetric, slow groove that is gradually joined by ethereal instrumental melodies and the dreamlike singing of sopranos Amanda DeBoer Bartlett and Carrie Henneman Shaw. Chant-like lines and wild, squawking instrumental interruptions stir together wit and melody in ways biting, discordant, or rude.

The ensemble expands to sinfonietta size for Jeff Parker’s Water on Glass, which layers Parker’s hypnotic, percussive Korg MS-20 Monophonic Synthesizer sounds onto a series of alternately gorgeous and strange orchestral chords that vary in texture and weirdness in an otherworldly procession.

Finally, Murat Çolak’s epic SWAN deliberately merges electronic and avant classical sounds so seamlessly that it is hard to tell where the acoustic instruments end and the electronics begin. According to Çolak, “SWAN’s aesthetic is a blend of Turkish/Islamic and pop-cultural elements. The opening section, Korridor, is a drone/ambient movement with a big trance synth part. It is ritual music. Karaoke Mahshar is some sort of a Turkish Trance-Pop hybrid. The instrumental choir sing an emotional pop/“fantasy music” (a Turkish genre) melody in unison over a flamboyant electronic track. It’s the soundtrack to a club for the wasted, for emotional after-hours karaoke. The final section, Rod Modell, is a dub-techno flavored ambient movement. It is the sound of a huge, postapocalyptic mosque that evolves to a big, stretched monophonic melody, coming from a very old vinyl, a song from the old times.”

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released March 25, 2022

Ensemble Dal Niente

Jeff Parker, Murat Çolak, LJ White

Engineering: Aphorism Studios
Mastering: Murat Çolak
Album artwork: Ana Mariá Bermúdez

Additional technical support: Igor Santos

Performers:

Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, soprano
Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
Emma Hospelhorn, flutes
Andrew Nogal, oboe
Laura Adkins, oboe
Katherine Jimoh, clarinets
Tom Snydacker, saxophone
Joseph Connor, saxophone
Matt Oliphant, horn
Mabel Kwan, piano
Ben Melsky, harp
Kyle Flens, percussion
Theo Ramsey, violin
Ammie Brod, viola
Chris Wild, cello
Mark Buchner, bass
Michael Lewanski, conductor

Dal Niente 2021/2022 Staff: Ben Melsky, Executive Director; Tomás Gueglio, Ensemble Manager; Emma Hospelhorn, Publicity Director; Igor Santos/Hunter Brown, Technical Directors; Kyle Flens, Audience Development Director; Ammie Brod, Social Media

Artistic Programming Committee: Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, Tomás Gueglio, Emma Hospelhorn, Mabel Kwan, Michael Lewanski, Ben Melsky, Tara Lynn Ramsey

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Ensemble Dal Niente performs new and experimental chamber music with dedication, virtuosity, and an exploratory spirit. Audiences coming to Dal Niente shows can expect performances that are curated to pique curiosity and connect art, culture, and people.

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