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Deep and powerful drone compositions recorded live at Epsilon Spires Church performed on organ, accordion, contrabass and cello by Ben Richter, Mike Bullock, and Laura Cetilia. Rich and meditative, arcing past, present and future. This Sedimental release is a monumental document from avant-garde composer Ben Richter.
"This music was made possible through the kind invitation of Executive Director Jamie Mohr to a winter residency at Epsilon Spires, a non-profit performance center housed in a historic former church in Brattleboro, Vermont, with the opportunity to compose a set of works for their 1906 three-manual Estey pipe organ. Due to the frigid temperatures, the organ was sounding almost 60 cents flat from A=440Hz. In combination with Laura Cetilia and Mike Bullock's intonationally flexible A=440 low string instruments and my A=444 quarter-tone accordion, this created a unique pitch landscape and dark atmosphere from which emerged three meditations on the ripples, pulsations, and slow transformations of memory." --Ben Richter
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"Rewild (2022) is not meant to be heard as a literal replication of some idealized arboreal setting, but rather a gathering of discrete yet interconnected elements functioning together in balance for a long, slow span of time, suggesting multiple layered and interacting timescales. Put more simply, the music isn't meant to sound like a forest, but instead to evoke to a listener the depth, breadth, and interdependence of a wild ecosystem's very being, as well the amount of time such actions take to evolve -- and, perhaps, how fragile and precarious the system actually is. Just as the natural processes of ecology and evolution that inspired Ben Richter (b. 1986) are too slow, spacious, and complex to command most human attention, so, too, does the resulting music exist in a space that might be imperceptible, unless listeners made a concerted effort to listen deeply and hear differently. As in the natural world, that attention is rewarded with the apprehension of something uncanny and marvelous. Ghost ensemble features Margaret Lancaster (flute); Sky Macklay (oboe); Ben Richter (accordion); Chris Nappi (percussion); Lucia Helen Stavros (harp); Martine Thomas (viola); Tyler J. Borden (violoncello); James Ilgenfritz (contrabass); Kyle Motl (contrabass); Carl Bettendorf (conductor)."
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