Michael Vincent Waller - The South Shore (2015)

2017-12-11T14:43:26Z

Michael Vincent Waller - The South Shore (2015)

Disc I

1.  Anthems (2014) for cello and piano duo
2.  Atmosfera di Tempo (2013) for string quartet
3.  Profondo Rosso (2013) for piano trio
4.  Per La Madre e La Nonna (2012) for string trio
5.  Pasticcio per meno è più (2014) for piano solo
6.  La Rugiada del Mattino (2013) for violin and cello duo
7.  Tre Pezzi per Trio di Pianoforte (2014) - Pezzo I for piano trio
8.  Tre Pezzi per Trio di Pianoforte (2014) - Pezzo II for piano trio
9.  Tre Pezzi per Trio di Pianoforte (2014) - Pezzo III for piano trio
10.  Nel Nome di Gesù (2013) - I. for cello and organ duo
11.  Nel Nome di Gesù (2013) - II. for cello and organ duo
12.  Organum (2014) for organ solo
13.  Tacca Prima (2013) for cello solo
14.  Il Tenuto Mento Alto (2014) for violin solo

Disc II

1.  Ritatto (2013) for sextet - flute, alto sax, electric guitar, viola, cello, trombone
2.  La Riva Sud (2014) for piano and viola duo
3.  Pupazzo di Neve Partitas (2013) - I. Allemande for cello solo
4.  Pupazzo di Neve Partitas (2013) - II. Courante for cello solo
5.  Pupazzo di Neve Partitas (2013) - III. Sarabande for cello solo
6.  Pupazzo di Neve Partitas (2013) - IV. Gigue for cello solo
7.  Variations for Quintet (2014) - Variations I for flute, string trio, and piano
8.  Variations for Quintet (2014) - Variations II for flute, string trio, and piano
9.  Miniatures (2014) - III. Return from The Fork for piano solo
10.  Y per Henry Flynt (2012) - I. Fuguey Prelude for cello solo
11.  Y per Henry Flynt (2012) - II. Post-Sonata for cello solo
12.  Y per Henry Flynt (2012) - III. Quarter-Tone Rondo for cello solo
13.  Y per Henry Flynt (2012) - IV. Slow Scherzo for cello solo
14.  Capo Finale (2012) - I. Capo for viola and piano duo
15.  Vocalise (2014) for flute solo
16.  Arbitrage Deux (2013) for clarinet solo
17.  Arbitrage (2011) for bass clarinet and gong percussion duo

20>>21 - Ensemble 
Daidalos - Ensemble
Project Sis - Ensemble
Red Desert - Ensemble
Carson Cooman - Organ
Arlan Harris - 	Piano Preparation
Conrad Harris - Violin
Nicolas Horvath - Piano
Marija Ilic - Piano
Dan Jessie - Piano Tuner
Luna Cholang Kang - Flute
Christine Kim - Cello, Producer
Pauline Kim - Violin
Yael Manor -	Piano
Esther Noh - Violin
Daniel Panner - Viola
Katie Porter - Clarinet
Charity Wicks - Piano

The South Shore is the debut of Michael Vincent Waller, released March 8th/April 14th, 2015 (US/UK), featuring chamber works from the 2011-2014. Waller collaborated with over 20 musicians and ensembles to bring this record to life, a 2-CD release with album art photography by Phill Niblock.

"The music of Michael Vincent Waller offers a welcome and rare alternative to the tempo and noise of modern life. These touching miniatures employ the pure modal scales first described by ancient Greek philosophers and sustained through millennia in the folk song of many lands, in religious chant, and in the modern era by the works of composers such as Erik Satie (especially his monodrama ‘Socrate’) and Terry Riley (especially ‘A Rainbow in Curved Air’).

Waller’s music convinces us by its honest emotion, which avoids any artifice that would dramatically pull us toward some effect. Although it is the first time we have heard these works, we seem to immediately understand the intimate feeling they refer to.” --- “Blue” Gene Tyranny, From the liner notes of The South Shore

Michael Vincent Waller's The South Shore is a double-CD collection of 31 short chamber works composed between 2012 and 2014. Waller belongs to the generation of postminimalist composers who have absorbed the techniques and procedures of the avant-garde, yet he has moved on to find fresh resources in the use of Greek modes, traditional counterpoint, and the influences of impressionism, gamelan, pandiatonicism, and postmodernism. The diversity of Waller's instrumentation is initially striking, though this is perhaps more noticeable in a collection where the combinations change from track to track, though the variety seems to be ad hoc rather than purposefully eclectic. Even so, there is unity in Waller's dedicated use of modal harmonies and canonic interplay, which lend an antique quality to many of the selections, especially Atmosfera di Tempo and Per La Madre e La Nonna, among several other works written for strings, as well as the organ piece, Organum. Yet the influences of Erik Satie, minimalism, sacred chants, and popular music can be detected in other works, and all share a tendency toward quiet, lyrical expressions and subdued meditation. Waller's unhurried and gentle music is well-suited to introspection, and the smoothness of the performances and the evenness of dynamics set a consistently reflective mood. ---Blair Sanderson, AllMusic Review

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Michael Vincent Waller – Trajectories (2017)

2017-11-22T15:59:01Z

Michael Vincent Waller – Trajectories (2017)


1 	by itself 	5:51
Visages (2015)
2 	I. A Lonely Day 	1:58
3 	II. Year of the Ram 	1:44
4 	III. Maidens Dancing 	4:51
5 	IV. Lashing Out 	3:02
6 	V. Onomatopoeia 	3:12
7 	VI. Obviously 	2:40
8 	VII. Inner World 	4:33
9 	VIII. Three Things 	2:34
Lines (2016)
10 	Lines 	9:39
Breathing Trajectories (2016)
11 	Part I 	8:39
12 	Part II 	5:56
13 	Part III 	8:33
Dreaming Cadenza (2016)
14 	Dreaming Cadenza 	4:33
Laziness (2015)
15 	I 	3:54
16 	II 	3:13
17 	III 	1:54

R. Andrew Lee – piano
Seth Parker Woods – cello

Trajectories is the second full-length album by Michael Vincent Waller, featuring pianist R. Andrew Lee and cellist Seth Parker Woods. The edition includes photography by Phill Niblock and liner notes by “Blue” Gene Tyranny.

In these evocative works, Michael Vincent Waller details his responses to mostly situations of introspection, in which the composer reveals his most private emotions. The compositions themselves could be described as “minimalist” in their means of expression, but they are not simply repetitions of patterns without narrative invocations. We feel and we see and we realize meditations on very personal or very quiet situations that express to the listener some of the very sincere and insightful revelations about the composer’s responses to the world, and to his own creative generation of imagery. In other words, his “minimalism” is not a mere repetition of patterns but a choice of sounds that evoke distinct images and feelings that help us experience the psychic background and artistic motivations embodied within the art-work. This truly beautiful and direct music reveals deep emotion of a very fine sensibility, exacting in its subtlety of form. --- – “Blue” Gene Tyranny, recitalprogram.com

While Michael Vincent Waller's first album, The South Shore, introduced chamber works for various combinations of instruments, his 2017 release on Recital is somewhat more unified in its tone colors, consisting of works for piano solo and cello and piano. Trajectories continues Waller's exploration of calm, reflective moods, expressed in placid miniatures that typically employ a narrow range of pitches, the subtle interplay of modes, generally soft dynamics, and nonfunctional yet seemingly tonal harmonies. The apparent simplicity of Waller's music is belied by the sophistication of his techniques, which include a rather free, postminimalist approach to cycling patterns and considerable rhythmic variety, offsetting its Satie-like stasis. Waller's surfaces may seem simple or transparent in the opening piano piece, by itself, and in the Visages, played with delicacy by R. Andrew Lee, yet the ephemeral nature of the music invites a second listening, if only to capture something more of its elusive character. Lines introduces the cello, smoothly played by Seth Parker Woods, and the contrast of its lyrical part with the essentially harmonic piano accompaniment sets up a fragile equilibrium. Breathing Trajectories and Dreaming Cadenza, both for solo piano, offer more chromatic hues in the piano's slowly broken arpeggios, though the widely spaced pitches avoid harsh dissonances. The closing triptych, Laziness, outwardly resembles a conventional piece for cello and piano, though the periodic shifts of major and minor harmonies and the curiously gnomic cello part serve as a reminder that, in Waller's music, familiar sonorities and forms are usually treated unconventionally. --- Blair Sanderson

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