Research Catalog

Title

Centre Bridge : electroacoustic works / Frances White.

Author

White, Frances, 1960-

Publication

New York, NY : Mode, ℗2007.

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Additional Authors

• Ting, Liuh-Wen
• Rinker, Troy
• Brown, Elizabeth (Elizabeth C.)
• Kim, Pauline
• Yoshioka, Airi
• Cerutti, David
• Chapman, Susannah
• Hostetter, Paul, 1964-

Description

1 audio disc; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Much of Frances White's music is inspired by her love of nature, and her electronic works frequently include natural sound recorded near her home in central New Jersey. This is the first complete disc of White's electro-acoustic works, both with or without instruments. Centre Bridge is one of several bridges crossing the Delaware River, connecting New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It is a nondescript bridge, not particularly attractive, nor does it have a grand history. What Centre Bridge does have is a beautiful voice. The roadway on the bridge consists of a metal grating, and the cars passing over this create low drones, their tones shifting as they speed up and slow down. While on vacation some years ago, Frances White walked across Centre Bridge and discovered the music of the bridge, and it opened up a whole world for her. This disc is titled Centre Bridge because it has inspired two of the works contained on it. But beyond this, it is because the role that the bridge has played in White's work is so characteristic of her music. Her music is about listening deeply: encountering sound in the world (especially the natural world) and immersing herself in it. From this experience, she develops an image from it through intuition. It is this image, drawn from experience, that she then brings out again into the world through her music. To engage her work is to take a walk with her through her inner and outer sense of sound. Like the Lily utilizes quiet, indistinct, irregular pulsing electronic sounds, while the instrumentalists play simple overlapping extended tones over this delicate texture - using electronic sound to create a sonic space to hold the instrumental music. In A veil barely seen the purling water is heard throughout, its natural pitches combined with White's imagined ones. The viola moves through this space as one stream flows into another, from bare outward sound to the various moods and tones of White's inner reflections. Centre Bridge (dark river) uses the Delaware River as a backdrop; the pitch bends and transitions of the low strings are simple transcriptions of the sounds of actual traffic on the bridge: "The bridge transforms the sound of traffic into a kind of music," says White, "into something beautiful." Liner notes by James Pritchett

Uniform Title

Instrumental music. Selections

Alternative Title

• Instrumental music.
• Electroacoustic works

Subjects

• Electronica (Music)
• Musique concrète
• Electronic music
• Chamber music

Genre/Form

• Electronica (Music)
• Musique concrète.

Note

• The 4th work a recording of a "walk" through the composer's Resonant landscape, originally an interactive installation using musique concrète and computer.
• Program notes in English, German, and French ([20] pages : illustrations, portrait) inserted in container.

Contents

Like the lily : for viola, double bass, and electronic sound (14:20) -- Centre Bridge : for shakuhachi duo and electronic sound (12:02) -- Veil barely seen : for viola and electronic sound (13:26) -- Walk through "Resonant landscape" no. 2 : for electronic sound (9:55) -- Centre Bridge (dark river) : for string quintet [2 violins, viola, violoncello, double bass] and electronic sound (11:54).

Call Number

*LDC 45167

LCCN

• 764593018421
• 00764593018421

OCLC

173283233

Author

White, Frances, 1960-

Title

Centre Bridge : electroacoustic works / Frances White.

Imprint

New York, NY : Mode, ℗2007.

Playing Time

001420 001202 001326 000955 001154

Type of Content

performed music

Type of Medium

audio

Type of Carrier

audio disc

Digital File Characteristics

audio file

CD audio

Performer

Liuh-Wen Ting, viola (1st, 3rd works) ; Troy Rinker Jr., double bass (1st, 6th) ; Elizabeth Brown, shakuhachi (2nd) ; Pauline Kim, Airi Yoshioka, violins, David Cerutti, viola, Susannah Chapman, violoncello, Paul Hostetter, conductor (5th).

Added Author

Ting, Liuh-Wen. Instrumentalist

Rinker, Troy. Instrumentalist

Brown, Elizabeth (Elizabeth C.) Instrumentalist

Kim, Pauline. Instrumentalist

Yoshioka, Airi. Instrumentalist

Cerutti, David. Instrumentalist

Chapman, Susannah. Instrumentalist

Hostetter, Paul, 1964- Conductor

White, Frances, 1960- Like the lily.

White, Frances, 1960- Centre Bridge.

White, Frances, 1960- Veil barely seen.

White, Frances. Walk through Resonant landscape, no. 2.

White, Frances, 1960- Centre Bridge (dark river)

Other Standard Identifier

764593018421

00764593018421 gtin-14

Publisher No.

mode 184 Mode

184 Mode

Research Call Number

*LDC 45167 Notes on file