REIDEMEISTER MOVE : Arcanum 17

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Format: CD [R52]
Shipping Weight: 0.07lbs
Label: Recital

2,628円

'"Reidemeister Move's Arcanum 17 is a sound novella recorded in 2012 in remote Eastern Quebec. Reidemeister Move is Christopher Williams, a composer and contrabass player who worked with Ben Patterson (amongst an army of other mentors) and Robin Hayward, a microtonal tubist and composer who has performed music written for him by Christian Wolff and Alvin Lucier. Arcanum 17, based on the Andre Breton novel (1945) of the same name, was co-written by Williams and Charlie Morrow (one may recall that Recital published Morrow's fabulous Toot! Too LP last year (R 041LP, 2017)). Charlie introduced me to Williams in late-2016 (introducing is one of Charlie's specialties). Once I discovered Christopher's association with Fluxus composers and Malcolm Goldstein, I figured our conversations would go late into the night. We did not talk, though. And our first meeting consisted of Christopher sitting me down to play a piece of his music. I was initially turned off by the situation: such a bold gesture from a relative stranger (a bottle of wine and banter would normally be on the menu for such an occasion). We turned the lights to a dim glow in my living room and he played the CD for me all the way through: 45 minutes of hyper-silent listening. I sank into the experience with comfort and ease with the first wash of water from the speakers. Arcanum 17 is paced perfectly: field recordings, whispered narration, and cloudy bass and tuba streams fall in and out of frame with cinematic grace. A transportive phenomenon of an album, it sonically echoes Williams' description of the Breton novel: 'A thick, existential little book, a reckoning of and with everything that brings him here: Canadian wildlife, the morning star, the myth of Melusina, feminism, the French education system, the ecstasy of newfound love. His alchemical blurring of prose and poetry, dream and waking states, natural and psychological landscapes, and past, present and future, brings these topics inimitably together. Always on the cusp of development but never quite.' I now am grateful for the serious listening lesson that Christopher sat me down for: both because the sound piece was beautiful, and as a reminder to treat your art with respect and to not slight the weight of your passions."--Sean McCann, October 2018.
Includes 9″ x 6″ 20-page color pamphlet with photos and program notes. Edition of 200.'

Tracklist
1 Arcanum 17 42:01

Credits
Composed By ? Charlie Morrow, Christopher Williams
Liner Notes [Program Notes] ? Charlie Morrow, Christopher Williams
Performer [Reidemeister Move], Contrabass ? Christopher Williams
Performer [Reidemeister Move], Tuba [Microtonal Tuba] ? Robin Hayward
Performer, Voice [Voice (English)] ? Charlie Morrow
Performer, Voice [Voice (French) And French-English Translations] ? Maija-Leena Remes
Photography By [Andre Breton Photograph] ? Man Ray
Photography By [CD Edition] ? Mike Harrison
Producer [CD Edition Produced By], Mastered By [CD Edition] ? Sean McCann
Producer [Production, Co-produced By] ? Other Media
Producer [Production, Produced By] ? Charles Morrow Productions LLC, Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Technician, Engineer [Assistant Sound Engineer], Recorded By [Field Recordings], Cameraman [Videographer] ? Mike Harrison
Technician, Engineer [Recording Engineer] ? Bernd Friebel
Technician, Engineer [Sound Engineer], Recorded By [Field Recordings], Sound Designer [3D Sound Designer] ? Tyler Clausen
Technician, Programmed By [Software Programmer] ? Jeff Aaron Bryant
Text By [Composed After Texts By] ? Andre Breton

Notes
Credits & Production:

Technicians
Bernd Friebel ? recording engineer for Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Tyler Clausen ? sound engineer for CMP [...]
Mike Harrison ? assistant sound engineer for CMP [...]

Production and Publishing
Produced by Charles Morrow Productions LLC and Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Published and co-produced by Other Media (c)(p) Other Media (ASCAP)
Thank you to Nutaaq Media, Inc. for their generous support

CD Edition
R.M. photograph Copyright Holly M. Gilbert (2016)
[...]
Recital, Los Angeles, California
Recital Fifty Two (R52)
First edition of 200pc
Copyright & all rights reserved, 2018
On disc:
R52, c 2018
Pamphlet, p.4: Andre Breton photograph by Man Ray (1930)
Title on front and on disc, face side:
Reidemeister Move plays Arcanum 17
From the Recital website:
A sound novella recorded in 2012 in remote Eastern Quebec.
CD issued in 9″ x 6″ 20-page color pamphlet with photos and program notes.