A Collection of One-page Pieces by Karl Berger, Earle Brown, Alvin Curran, Nick Didkovsky, Joel Ford, Daniel Goode, Clinton McCallum, Larry Polansky and Christian Wolff
Zwerm: Johannes Westendorp, Bruno Nelissen, Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, Toon Callier, guitars; w/ Eric Thielemans, drums, percussion; Bertel Schollaert, saxophone; Matthias Koole, guitar; Thomas Moore, voice-over
The "one-page piece"－a written-down musical composition that fits on a single piece of paper－is appealing to a group like the Belgian/Dutch electric guitar quartet Zwerm. Zwerm and their collaborators took full advantage of the opportunity to create their own scores out of the one-page pieces, to allow their own creativity and compositional ideas to run free, to explore interesting sound worlds, and to seek out possible links between the pieces.
These positive experiences are inherent to the format of the one-page piece: A composer provides a musical idea, in traditional notation, prose, graphics, or some combination of all three; sometimes this idea is rough or conceptual, sometimes more clear in its musical content and process. The rest is up to the musicians.
Collaborative brainstorming is necessary, and many ideas might be tried out before settling on a particular way of realizing the piece; often, the possibilities seem endless, limited only by one's conventional training, adherence to idiomatic instrumental techniques, and musical sensibilities. This collaborative brainstorming works best when the ensemble is made up of adventurous musicians who trust each other.
One-page pieces fall into the category of process pieces. With roots in the history of American experimental music, both process pieces and one-page pieces are sometimes traced back to Terry Riley's minimalist masterpiece In C of 1964.
The recordings on this CD represent a crossover project in which Zwerm looks for connections between the sound worlds of blues, free improvisation, experimental rock, noise, minimalism, and many other contemporary musical ideas.
Underwater Princess Waltz
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Track Listing
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Gauss Cannon
Joel Ford
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Underwater Princess Waltz
Alvin Curran
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Her Waltzing with Her
Alvin Curran
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Mayhem (the hammer)
Nick Didkovsky Leo Didkovsky
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Burdocks, Part VII
Christian Wolff
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tween (k-tood #2)
Larry Polansky
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Mayhem (the arrow)
Nick Didkovsky Leo Didkovsky
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round round down
Clinton McCallum
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The Red and White Cows
Daniel Goode
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December 1952
Earle Brown
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Mayhem (the blade)
Nick Didkovsky Leo Didkovsky
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Time Goes By
Karl Berger
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