New album ONSETS out January 2014 on Mode.
Original twenty-first century electro-acoustic musics
with the amazing Hyperion Ensemble and Ne(X)tworks.
cat no Mode 266.
From the CD booklet notes:
As a composer shaping the conversation and collision between diverse musical voices,
I avoid imposing a homogeneous language. I am against purity of method.
I am after a kind of hybridity. And I want the listener's assumptions
to go wrong at certain points, because this is what seems most to awaken listening.
... I can say that music's speciality as an art is its concern with time itself,
with unfolding, with how things are expected, remembered,
how they appear to cast shadows before and after themselves,
how they move in relation to us and we move in relation to them;
how they creep up or suddenly burst on us; how they dawn or flood.
I took the title 'ONSETS' for this phase in my work,
wanting to echo Hopkins' 'instress', but with the accent now on time,
on the arrival of the thing, on how its wave breaks.
to order online, visit: Mode catalogue
5:4 Review of ONSETS
"Passing through passages of pure euphoria &, later, hinting at a leftfield kind of ritual, Attaot perhaps epitomises
the astonishing unchecked invention on display in all five works on this disc. Anyone doubting the capacity for originality
in contemporary music should spend time with Tim Hodgkinson's music & hear what's actually possible.
Outstanding".
1) Ici-bas (2009) 18.06
for ensemble & electronic sound:
Alice Teyssier, flute; Rane Moore, Matei Teodorescu, clarinets; Orban Gödri, bassoon;
Victor Arsene, Tiberiu Cenuser, trombones; Anthony Cheung, piano;
Joshua Modney, Jonathan Truscott, Craig Stanton, violins;
Elisabeth Weisser, Ioan Marius Lacraru, Elisa Bergersen, violas;
David Requiro, Rachel Firmager, Vasile Comsa, cellos;
Felipe Canales, Corrado Canonici, basses;
Hyperion Ensemble with members of Talea and the Bergersen Quartet;
Tim Hodgkinson, conductor
2) Ulaaraar (2005) 9.33
for bass clarinet and strings:
Tim Hodgkinson, bass clarinet and conductor; Ioan Marius Lacraru, Cornelia Petroiu, violas;
Theodor Iancu, Andrei Kivu, cellos; Ion and Ciprian Ghita, basses; anon, small gong
3) Amhas / Nirriti (2006) 16.53
for ensemble & electronic sound:
Andrei Kivu, flute; Emil Visenescu, Matei Teodorescu; clarinets; Orban Gödri, bassoon;
Denis Simandy, french horn; Victor Arsene, Radu Clipa, trombones; Monica Timofticiuc, piano; Ana-
Maria Avram, tape operator; Diana Cazaban, violin; Ioan Marius Lacraru, viola;
Theodor Iancu, cello; Ion and Ciprian Ghita, basses; Gustavo Aguilar, Petru Teodorescu,
percussion; Hyperion Ensemble, Tim Hodgkinson, conductor
4) Jo-Ha-Kyu (2000-2010) 15.56
for string quartet, harp, trombone, synthesizer and glass:
Cornelius Dufallo, violin 1 & ensemble director; Ariana Kim, violin 2;
Stephanie Griffin, viola; Yves Dharamraj, cello; Shelley Burgon, harp;
Miguel Frasconi, glass and synth; Christopher McIntyre, trombone and synth;
Ne(X)tworks; Tim Hodgkinson, conductor
5) Attaot (2009) 8.53
for ensemble & electronic sound:
Alice Teyssier, flute; Rane Moore, Matei Teodorescu, clarinets; Orban Gödri, bassoon;
Victor Arsene, Tiberiu Cenuser, trombones; Anthony Cheung, piano;
Joshua Modney, violin; Elisabeth Weisser, Ioan Marius Lacraru, violas;
David Requiro, Vasile Comsa, cellos; Felipe Canales, Corrado Canonici, basses;
Gustavo Aguilar, Petru Teodorescu, Alexander Lipowski, percussion;
Hyperion Ensemble with members of Talea; Tim Hodgkinson, conductor and clarinet