{"id":203,"date":"2013-11-21T22:39:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T22:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/maths\/?p=203"},"modified":"2013-12-21T12:55:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T12:55:04","slug":"recording-popular-contexts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/maths\/2013\/11\/21\/recording-popular-contexts\/","title":{"rendered":"Recording Popular Contexts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turner Sims Fellow and contemporary pianist extraordinaire Mark Knoop has just released a new solo recording, featuring music by our composer colleague Matthew Shlomowitz.\u00a0 Mark tells us about how the piece and the recording came about<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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In 2009 Matthew and I first discussed the idea of his writing a new work for solo piano. I was planning a series of concerts which would each consist of two large-scale pieces \u2014 Matthew\u2019s new piece was to be performed alongside Michael Finnissy\u2019s English Country <\/em>Tunes<\/em>.\u00a0 The year before we had both become excited and intrigued by Peter Ablinger\u2019s works including his ongoing cycle, Voices and Piano<\/em>, in which recordings of the voice of a renowned individual (taken from interviews, speeches or readings) are played alongside, and analysed, transcribed, interpreted by the solo piano part.<\/p>\n

Partially in response to Ablinger\u2019s work, Matthew decided to incorporate recorded sounds into the new piece, but in this instance triggered by the playing of a sampler keyboard placed on top of the acoustic piano. Popular Contexts<\/em> became the first in a continuing series of works for Matthew, with six volumes now completed for varying ensembles, each incorporating samples.<\/p>\n

\"sr382-site.\"<\/a>The samples in \u201cPopular Contexts\u201d interact with the acoustic piano in a variety of different ways. To start with, they shadow the acoustic sounds both in pitch and rhythm, but quickly take on a separate identity, informing and recontextualising the situation.<\/p>\n

After the first performance in 2010, we decided that it was important to record Popular Contexts<\/em> and agreed that a selection of Ablinger\u2019s Voices and Piano<\/em> would make the ideal partnership on a CD. Now with the support of the University of Southampton and the Brussels-based record label Sub Rosa, the CD has at last been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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