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Earle Brown: Abstract Sound Objects

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Details

Composer
BROWN, EARLE
Artist
Sabine Liebner
Format
CD
Label
Wergo
Released
Mar 01, 2012
Catalog #
WER67452
UPC
4010228674521

About

Earle Brown's involvement with the fine arts led him to reject previously fixed ideas of musical form and supposedly sacrosanct rules of composition in the early 1950s. His graphic notations, which are primarily oriented toward Jackson Pollock's painting procedures, guarantee the opening of time and space which leads to the liberation of the sound and the expansion of the meaning of form. "[...] mobility of the sound elements within the work and the graphic provocation of an intense collaboration throughout the composer-notation-performance process - were for me the most fascinating new possibility for 'sound objects' as they had been for sculpture and painting." (Earle Brown) On this CD Sabine Liebner performs important works for piano by Earle Brown: "Home Burial" for piano, based on a poem by the American poet Robert Frost was written in 1949. The manuscript of the piece was only recently rediscovered. The performance here is therefore the work's first recording. Among the pieces gathered under the title "Folio", "December 1952" is surely the most famous. On a piece of paper without staves, the actions of the pianist are indicated through lines of varying length which indicate points in a sound-time-space continuum. "Twenty-Five Pages" consists of 25 single pages, each of which is an independent entity. The decision on the number of the instruments involved as well as on the order of the individual pages is left to the performers. "Four Systems" for any number of chosen instruments was written in connection with the birthday of the pianist David Tudor on 20 January 1954, who premiered the piece shortly thereafter. "Summer Suite '95", written after Brown's almost 30-year abstinence from the piano, is dedicated to the pianist David Arden. Brown sketched out his ideas about the structure of the work graphically, as had been his previous practice. However, after writing the piece down, he realized it on a keyboard and with the help of a computer.

Tracklist 23 tracks

  1. 1 Home Burial 04:18
    Track
    1
    Title
    Home Burial
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  2. 2 October 1952 02:07
    Track
    2
    Title
    October 1952
    Duration
    02:07
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  3. 3 November 1952 03:53
    Track
    3
    Title
    November 1952
    Duration
    03:53
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  4. 4 December 1952 03:06
    Track
    4
    Title
    December 1952
    Duration
    03:06
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  5. 5 MM - 87 01:23
    Track
    5
    Title
    MM - 87
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  6. 6 MM - 135 00:33
    Track
    6
    Title
    MM - 135
    Duration
    00:33
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  7. 7 Music for Trio for 5 Dancers, June 1953 03:17
    Track
    7
    Title
    Music for Trio for 5 Dancers, June 1953
    Duration
    03:17
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  8. 8 1953 02:15
    Track
    8
    Title
    1953
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  9. 9 25 Pages 25:03
    Track
    9
    Title
    25 Pages
    Duration
    25:03
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  10. 10 4 Systems 04:23
    Track
    10
    Title
    4 Systems
    Duration
    04:23
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  11. 11 I. 6/12/95 00:23
    Track
    11
    Title
    I. 6/12/95
    Duration
    00:23
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  12. 12 II. No Horns at All, 30 June '95 02:09
    Track
    12
    Title
    II. No Horns at All, 30 June '95
    Duration
    02:09
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  13. 13 III. July 14 01:05
    Track
    13
    Title
    III. July 14
    Duration
    01:05
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  14. 14 IV. 6/14/95 03:47
    Track
    14
    Title
    IV. 6/14/95
    Duration
    03:47
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  15. 15 V. Segment 3A 02:23
    Track
    15
    Title
    V. Segment 3A
    Duration
    02:23
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  16. 16 VI. Untitled O 00:24
    Track
    16
    Title
    VI. Untitled O
    Duration
    00:24
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  17. 17 VII. July 6 03:07
    Track
    17
    Title
    VII. July 6
    Duration
    03:07
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  18. 18 VIII. Untitled O2 01:18
    Track
    18
    Title
    VIII. Untitled O2
    Duration
    01:18
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  19. 19 IX. Segment 2 00:44
    Track
    19
    Title
    IX. Segment 2
    Duration
    00:44
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  20. 20 X. 6/30/95 03:09
    Track
    20
    Title
    X. 6/30/95
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  21. 21 XI. Template 1 01:14
    Track
    21
    Title
    XI. Template 1
    Duration
    01:14
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  22. 22 XII. July 5 05:57
    Track
    22
    Title
    XII. July 5
    Duration
    05:57
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  23. 23 XIII. August 1 01:48
    Track
    23
    Title
    XIII. August 1
    Duration
    01:48
    Composer
    Earle Brown
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner