Title from disc label. The 3rd work for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion (1 player), violin, cello, and live electronics; the 6th work for flute, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello, double bass, and electronics. Nikola Lutz, saxophone (1st work) ; Teodoro Anzellotti, accordion (2nd work) ; Ensemble Phoenix Basel (3rd work) ; Nina Janssen-Deinzer, clarinet (4th work) ; Isao Nakamura, drums (5th work) ; MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik (6th work) ; Ying Wang, electronics. 1st, 3rd-5th works recorded 2015 April 17-21 Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln. 6th work recorded 2015 September 11 Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln. 2nd work recorded 2015 November 22 Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln. Booklet with program notes and notes on performers in German and English (29 pages) inserted in container.
Contents:
Tun-tu : for saxophone and electronics (2012) (9:17) -- Wave in D : for accordion and electronics (2008) (10:04) -- Glissadulation : for ensemble and live elctronics (2014) (8:22) -- Focus exchange : for clarinet and electronics (2015) (14:40) -- Tip to top : dialogue with fingers for drum solo (2015) (6:17) -- Coffee & tea : for ensemble and electronics (2013) (11:11).
Summary:
Shaped equally by her roots in China as well as European influences, Ying Wang, with her struggle for an individual musical language, embodies in an exemplary way the challenges of finding a point of balance between two cultures. Ying Wang mediates between the two cultures. She has achieved quite personal solutions in her works, integrating dramatic impulses and meditative sensual sonorities. She regards as especially fruitful the transferring of techniques for the creation of electronic sounds to acoustical instruments. Restriction and freedom are important criteria in "Wave in D", where Wang, out of extremely limited tonal material, draws a rich assemblage of differentiated sound colors from the possibilities of the traditional instrument and the electronics. In "Tun tu" baritone saxophone and electronic sounds interact and come together in an imaginary sound landscape. The distorted sounds of the instrument, embedded in a cosmos of mysterious electronic colorations, seem at first almost improvisatory, but "Tun tu" is rigorously organized. In "Coffee & tea" Ying Wang reflects on contrasts between the cultures of Asia and Europe and uses coffee and tea as metaphors.
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