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After the Fire

After the Fire, CD cover Solo and Duo performances by members of ELISION Ensemble, including music of Richard HAMES, Michael WHITICKER, Liza LIM, Chris DENCH, Alessandro MELCHIORRE and Timothy O'DWYER

Vox Australis VAST 019-2

Total timing 70:58
Released 1996

Work Richard HAMES Zurna (1982) 11:19
Carl ROSMAN solo clarinet
Work Michael WHITICKER After the Fire (1992) 14:03
Marshall McGUIRE solo amplified harp
Work Liza LIM Amulet (1992) 6:49
Jennifer CURL solo viola
Work Chris DENCH severence (1988-91/94) 8:20
Geoffrey MORRIS solo guitar
Work Alessandro MELCHIORRE Halos (1989) 11:37
Susan PIEROTTI solo violin
Work Richard HAMES Djurunga (1985) 14:27
Carl ROSMAN bass clarinet, Peter NEVILLE marimba
Work Timothy O'DWYER Improvisation (1995) 5:03
from Bar-do'i-tos-grol 3rd chakra
Timothy O'DWYER solo saxophone

Excerpt from the Cover Notes

There are performers who believe that the seemingly endless search for ever-increasing complexity in contemporary music has gone too far: that the demands of today's repertoire exceed the practical (and indeed the possible) by such a margin as to make any conventional notions of interpretation quite out of the question. There are also performers who believe that the greatest intensity of expression is necessarily to be achieved at the limits of one's potential, in music as in all other fields, and that continually searching for these limits is an essential and rewarding part of the task of being a musician---indeed, that it is the least we can do for the art which gives us out fulfilment and our livelihood.

The performances recorded here, of course, argue for the latter viewpoint. The common concern of all these works is not simply the wish to extend the performers to the limits of their abilities---that is, after all, and absurdly easy task---but to create music in which the concerns of notes, their traditional modes of behaviour, and the associated interpretive consequences laid down be performance convention are replaced by an altogether more fundamental concern: the performer's physical, intellectual, and (yes!) emotional resources. In other words: performance. This music is, strangely, occasionally denigrated as intellectual and abstract (as if these qualities were somehow undesirable); in a very fundamental way, the opposite is the case.

--Carl ROSMAN © 1996

Performers and Production

Jennifer CURL viola, Peter NEVILLE percussion, Susan PIEROTTI violin, Carl ROSMAN clarinet/bass clarinet, Geoffrey MORRIS guitar, Marshall McGUIRE amplified harp, Timothy O'DWYER saxophone

Daryl BUCKLEY, Liza LIM, Chris DENCH producers, Jim ATKINS engineer, Carl ROSMAN cover note

Recorded between 1993 and 1995, Dallas Brooks Hall, Melbourne (tracks 1, 3, 4 and 6), ABC Studios, Melbourne (tracks 2 and 5) and Midland Railway Workshops, Perth (track 7). Released by AMC Vox Australis, Sydney, 1996. VAST 019-2. Total timing 70:58 (DDD).

This disc is dedicated to Stephen MOREY

This recording was produced with the support of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Music Centre (Sounds Australian). ELISION Ensemble is assisted by the Commonwealth of Australia through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

ABC Radio Australia Council
Vox Australis

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