Gigantic Dancing Human Machine - Andriessen / Bang On A Can
Details
- Composer
- ANDRIESSEN, LOUIS
- Artist
- Bang On A Can
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Cantaloupe Music
- Released
- Mar 11, 2003
- Catalog #
- CA21012
- UPC
- 713746272425
About
Dutch composer Louis Andriessen turned minimalism upside down in the 1970's with his radical musical responses to American experimentalists Reich, Riley and Glass. He challenged these composers' trance-like states with a European sense of edginess and angularity, and the results are exciting and overpoweringly aggressive. Hoketus - the lankmark of European minimalism - takes its name from the medieval art of hocketing, splitting a single melody between two groups of instruments separated in space. Earth-shattering and tribal in its elemental power, Andriessen describes this piece as a 'Gigantic Dancing Human Machine'. Its recording is an international collaboration of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, members of London's Icebreaker ensemble, and musicians from Andriessen's own group. Workers Union and Hout both generate high-voltage energy out of wild unison melodies and rhythms. the Bang on a Can All-Stars have worked closely with Andriessen over the past 10 years, bringing to these works their intense dedication and extreme musicality, and performing them all over the world.
Tracklist 3 tracks
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1 Workers Union 16:13
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Workers Union
- Duration
- 16:13
- Composer
- Louis Andriessen
- Ensemble
- Bang on a Can All-Stars
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2 Hoketus 23:53
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Hoketus
- Duration
- 23:53
- Composer
- Louis Andriessen
- Ensemble
- Bang on a Can All-Stars
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3 Hout 10:43
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Hout
- Duration
- 10:43
- Composer
- Louis Andriessen
- Ensemble
- Bang on a Can All-Stars