## The Recombinant Trilogy - Artist(s): [[George Lewis]], [[Claire Chase]], [[Seth Parker Woods]], [[Dana Jessen]] - Release Year: [[2021]] - Ostensible or actual genres: [[experimental]], [[electroacoustic]], [[chamber]], [[experimental electronic]] - <iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3009383219/size=small/bgcol=333333/linkcol=0f91ff/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-recombinant-trilogy">The Recombinant Trilogy by George Lewis</a></iframe> Notes: #album #👍 #newbrain %% ## Tracks: | No. | Title | Featuring | Notes | | --- | ----- | --------- | ----- | | | | | | %% ## Bandcamp Copy > Pioneering composer George Lewis releases "The Recombinant Trilogy," an album consisting of three works for solo instrument and electronics that use interactive digital delays, spatialization and timbre transformation to transform the acoustic sounds of the instrument into multiple digitally created sonic personalities that follow diverse yet intersecting spatial trajectories. Featuring virtuosic soloists flutist Claire Chase, cellist Seth Parker Woods, and bassoonist Dana Jessen, doppelgängers are created that blur the boundaries between original and copy, while shrouding their origin in processes of repetition. > credits > released February 5, 2021 > > Emergent was recorded in Accord, New York on 11/10/2020, engineered by Claire Chase; electronics performance and post-production by Levy Lorenzo > > Not Alone was recorded at University of Huddersfield, UK on 7/14/2016, engineered by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, with assistants Frederic Dufeu, Dave Jones and Sebastien Lavoie; electronics performed by Seth Parker Woods, original mixing and mastering by Christopher Botta at Staple Chest Audio, Brooklyn, NY > > Seismologic was recorded at Clonick Hall, Oberlin Ohio on 3/13/2019, engineered by Andrew Tripp; electronics performed by Eli Stine, and mixed by Andrew Tripp > > Mastering: Ryan Streber, oktavenaudio.com > > Design and layout: Marc Wolf, marcjwolf.com > > Software by Damon Holzborn, damonholzborn.com > > This project was made possible through generous support from the Edwin H. Case Chair in American Music, Columbia University > > The recording of Seismologic was supported by a Grant-in-Aid from Oberlin College ## More copy From [Bandcamp's best of contemporary classical February 2021](https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemporary-classical/best-of-bandcamp-contemporary-classical-february-2021?utm_source=notification), by Peter Margasak: > Composer and improviser George Lewis has spent decades exploring the convergence of acoustic and electronic sounds as a nexus for interactive improvisation, scored sounds, and more. His influential late ‘80s Voyager software developed a system that asked musicians to improvise with a virtual electronic orchestra, which in turn interacts with the performer. Since the ‘70s, he’s rigorously explored and advanced the possibilities for electro-acoustic music, perpetually rooted in improvisational practice. > > The three solo pieces featured on this new collection are scored, with each musician applying extended techniques within software created by Damon Holzborn: a sonic hall of mirrors that refracts, distorts and pivots from their gestures and sounds. The electronic sounds around Claire Chase’s flute on “Emergent” generate a multi-layered array of flutters, trills, and swoops that place her as the featured member of a virtual ensemble. “Not Alone” is a visceral solo cello piece composed with the improviser Abdul Wadud in mind—his only solo album was titled By Myself—performed with athletic, virtuosic precision by Seth Parker Woods. Here the electronic element is less predictable, creating exciting dissonances and harmonies that veer in and out of focus. The album closes with “Seismologic,” a wild piece written for bassoonist Dana Jessen that explores a dizzying wide palette, summoning a virtual catalog of non-“musical” sounds, whether animal- or machine-made. The trilogy reveals the composer’s undiminished imagination with interactive computer music, applied by a new generation of sonic explorers.