KRIEGER, ULRICH & CHRIS EVERINGHAM — Two (F)or More
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Tracklist
01 Ulrich Krieger parallel lives 10:00
02 Chris Everingham Rattlesnake Loops 10:00
03 John Cage Four6 30:00
Credits & Notes
Ulrich Krieger — parallel lives
parallel lives is a poetic-philosophical text score, aesthetically guiding the performers, but leaving the actual played sound material up to personal interpretation. Through this approach, previously unfathomed universes of sound-plasma emerge in Krieger and Everingham’s performance.
On one hand, the piece is inspired by the many-worlds/multiverse theory developed in string theory, where a multitude of universes exist on huge branes. These are seemingly isolated from each other and independently floating in the multiverse. But theory predicts that these brane universes still influence each other via the gravitational forces between them and branes possibly can collide with each other as galaxies do in our home universe.
On the other hand, the piece takes inspiration from the simple fact that in the end, ultimately, we are all alone. We all are living parallel lives from birth to death, intersecting with other lives for a shorter or longer moment in time—only to diverge again, continuing on their individual trajectories.
Ulrich Krieger
Chris Everingham — The Rattlesnake Loops
This piece was written in early 2022 in Valencia, California. Rattlesnake Loops instructs the performers to create loops of four-note chords accompanied by indeterminate sounds. On this recording, the sound of a contact microphone attached to a golf ball scraping across concrete, mixed in with air sounds from a contrabass clarinet, creates the backdrop for multi-tracked bassoons and saxophones, playing independently from one another in ambient continuity.
The slow loops were inspired by the composer’s parents and cycling in Missoula, Montana. They are a family of avid cyclists, but when there is not enough time for a longer ride in Missoula they ride the “rattlesnake loops”. The “Rattlesnake” is a region of Missoula in the Rattlesnake Valley where the composer was raised. The “loops” refer to riding around the various neighborhoods or up a short trail in the Rattlesnake Recreation Area. The Rattlesnake Loops attempts to emulate the quiet feeling of riding there.
Chris Everingham
John Cage — Four6
This work is a part of Cage’s series of “numbers pieces.” The title refers to the number of performers and the number in the sequences of pieces, as in this is the sixth “numbers piece” requiring four performers. Each performer chooses twelve different sounds with “fixed characteristics.” The score gives instructions on when to play each sound over the course of thirty minutes.
Here Krieger and Everingham each performed two parts independently which were later multitracked together. The recordings happened in the spring of 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic while both artists were on leave from CalArts and working remotely. Krieger recorded the contrabass clarinet sounds in the high desert north of Los Angeles, California, while Everingham recorded the bassoon sounds in Missoula, Montana. The limited capacity of home recording fostered creative techniques from each performer. Woodwinds are usually recorded with a mix of microphones around the instrument to get the best sound quality. In this version of Four6, a single microphone was positioned adjacent to the hole on each instrument where the air was escaping from for the given sound. This technique removed some distinctive characteristics of the instruments’ sounds, however, it amplified unusual sonic characteristics that are not normally heard in performances and recordings. Capturing the sound in this manner transformed the instruments’ tones to give them an “electric” quality. Through this interpretation of Four6 a dark ambient sonic plane emerges filled with the spacious uncertainty of a changing world.
Chris Everingham
Ulrich Krieger – contrabass clarinet, soprano-, alto-, tenor saxophones
Chris Everingham – bassoon, amplified objects
Cover design: Stuart C. Hutchinson
Photo used in cover: Chris Everingham
Inner sleeve photo: Ulrich Krieger
Layout & graphics: Michael Bulgrin
PLUS 159 / 2024
https://molokoplusrecords.de/finder.php?folder=Label&content=137
01 Ulrich Krieger parallel lives 10:00
02 Chris Everingham Rattlesnake Loops 10:00
03 John Cage Four6 30:00
Credits & Notes
Ulrich Krieger — parallel lives
parallel lives is a poetic-philosophical text score, aesthetically guiding the performers, but leaving the actual played sound material up to personal interpretation. Through this approach, previously unfathomed universes of sound-plasma emerge in Krieger and Everingham’s performance.
On one hand, the piece is inspired by the many-worlds/multiverse theory developed in string theory, where a multitude of universes exist on huge branes. These are seemingly isolated from each other and independently floating in the multiverse. But theory predicts that these brane universes still influence each other via the gravitational forces between them and branes possibly can collide with each other as galaxies do in our home universe.
On the other hand, the piece takes inspiration from the simple fact that in the end, ultimately, we are all alone. We all are living parallel lives from birth to death, intersecting with other lives for a shorter or longer moment in time—only to diverge again, continuing on their individual trajectories.
Ulrich Krieger
Chris Everingham — The Rattlesnake Loops
This piece was written in early 2022 in Valencia, California. Rattlesnake Loops instructs the performers to create loops of four-note chords accompanied by indeterminate sounds. On this recording, the sound of a contact microphone attached to a golf ball scraping across concrete, mixed in with air sounds from a contrabass clarinet, creates the backdrop for multi-tracked bassoons and saxophones, playing independently from one another in ambient continuity.
The slow loops were inspired by the composer’s parents and cycling in Missoula, Montana. They are a family of avid cyclists, but when there is not enough time for a longer ride in Missoula they ride the “rattlesnake loops”. The “Rattlesnake” is a region of Missoula in the Rattlesnake Valley where the composer was raised. The “loops” refer to riding around the various neighborhoods or up a short trail in the Rattlesnake Recreation Area. The Rattlesnake Loops attempts to emulate the quiet feeling of riding there.
Chris Everingham
John Cage — Four6
This work is a part of Cage’s series of “numbers pieces.” The title refers to the number of performers and the number in the sequences of pieces, as in this is the sixth “numbers piece” requiring four performers. Each performer chooses twelve different sounds with “fixed characteristics.” The score gives instructions on when to play each sound over the course of thirty minutes.
Here Krieger and Everingham each performed two parts independently which were later multitracked together. The recordings happened in the spring of 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic while both artists were on leave from CalArts and working remotely. Krieger recorded the contrabass clarinet sounds in the high desert north of Los Angeles, California, while Everingham recorded the bassoon sounds in Missoula, Montana. The limited capacity of home recording fostered creative techniques from each performer. Woodwinds are usually recorded with a mix of microphones around the instrument to get the best sound quality. In this version of Four6, a single microphone was positioned adjacent to the hole on each instrument where the air was escaping from for the given sound. This technique removed some distinctive characteristics of the instruments’ sounds, however, it amplified unusual sonic characteristics that are not normally heard in performances and recordings. Capturing the sound in this manner transformed the instruments’ tones to give them an “electric” quality. Through this interpretation of Four6 a dark ambient sonic plane emerges filled with the spacious uncertainty of a changing world.
Chris Everingham
Ulrich Krieger – contrabass clarinet, soprano-, alto-, tenor saxophones
Chris Everingham – bassoon, amplified objects
Cover design: Stuart C. Hutchinson
Photo used in cover: Chris Everingham
Inner sleeve photo: Ulrich Krieger
Layout & graphics: Michael Bulgrin
PLUS 159 / 2024
https://molokoplusrecords.de/finder.php?folder=Label&content=137