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Polansky: 4-Voice Canons

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Details

Composer
POLANSKY, LARRY
Artist
Polansky, Winant, Goode, Didkovsky, Diamond, York Vocal Index, Brooks, Mann, Kin, Davis, Guillette
Format
CD
Label
Cold Blue Music
Released
Nov 01, 2002
Catalog #
CB0011
UPC
800413001126

About

For more than two decades, Polansky, who the Village Voice called “the heir apparent to the Cowell/Nancarrow/Tenney genius experimentalist mantle,” has been composing a series of fascinating mensuration canons (a formal concept dating back to the Renaissance) that run the sonic gamut from wildly boisterous to serenely introverted. This disc collects thirteen of these canons with widely varying instrumentations that include marimbas, gamelan, electric guitars, children's voices, computer, choir, and chamber ensemble. Performances by and collaborations with William Winant, Jody Diamond, Daniel Goode, Nathan Davis, Nick Didkovsky, and others. The Wire magazine wrote about this CD, “An unashamedly tactile approach to musical material, forging an oblique angle to tradition… cool and elegant…. [I]t’s a mark of his resourceful mind that he can adapt the basic rules into a series of such complex and varied works.... Polansky’s canons show the extreme liberties that can be born from such exacting discipline.” International Record Review commented, “The music of Larry Polansky is as much fun to listen to as it is to think or get serious about…the results are dazzling as each canon defines its individual properties and unique sound world.... The transformations are ubiquitous and compelling…. With so much on offer, this is one of the best discs Cold Blue music has issued.” And ClassicalNet wrote, “Larry Polansky is the modern dean of the mensuration canon…. These canons are clever, mysterious, and comical—part theory of relativity, part Rube Goldberg.”

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 4-Voice Canon No. 4 for Marimba 04:48
    Track
    1
    Title
    4-Voice Canon No. 4 for Marimba
    Duration
    04:48
    Composer
    Larry Polansky
    Performer
    William Winant
  2. 2 4-Voice Canon No. 7 for Gamelan 06:11
    Track
    2
    Title
    4-Voice Canon No. 7 for Gamelan
    Duration
    06:11
    Composer
    Larry Polansky
    Performer
    Jody Diamond
  3. 3 4-Voice Canon No. 17 for Fretless Electric Guitar 04:19
    Track
    3
    Title
    4-Voice Canon No. 17 for Fretless Electric Guitar
    Duration
    04:19
    Composer
    Larry Polansky
    Performer
    Larry Polansky
  4. 4 4-Voice Canon No. 9b 04:04
    Track
    4
    Title
    4-Voice Canon No. 9b
    Duration
    04:04
    Composer
    Larry Polansky
    Performer
    Anna Diamond Polansky, Larry Polansky
  5. 5 4-Voice Canon No. 14 01:37
    Track
    5
    Title
    4-Voice Canon No. 14
    Duration
    01:37
    Composer
    Larry Polansky
    Performer
    Anna Diamond Polansky, Eliza Polli, Meghan Gallagher, Hester Godfrey, Nick Sinnott Armstrong, Saskia Nislow, Katie Lenhart
  6. 6 4-Voice Canon No. 16 for Computer 02:01
    Track
    6
    Title
    4-Voice Canon No. 16 for Computer
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Larry Polansky
    Performer
    Larry Polansky
  7. 7 4-Voice Canon No. 12 for Choir 01:59
    Track
    7
    Title
    4-Voice Canon No. 12 for Choir
    Duration
    01:59
    Composer
    Larry Polansky
    Ensemble
    York Vocal Index
    Conductor
    William Brooks
  8. 8 4-Voice Canon No. 10 01:05
    Track
    8
    Title
    4-Voice Canon No. 10
    Duration
    01:05
    Composer
    Larry Polansky
    Performer
    Larry Polansky, Chris Mann
  9. 9 4-Voice Canon No. 13 Java Canon 03:15
    Track
    9
    Title
    4-Voice Canon No. 13 Java Canon
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    Larry Polansky
    Performer
    Daniel Goode
  10. 10 4-Voice Canon No. 5 for Percussion 03:56
    Track
    10
    Title
    4-Voice Canon No. 5 for Percussion
    Duration
    03:56
    Composer
    Larry Polansky
    Performer
    William Winant
  11. 11 4-Voice Canon No. 6 03:24
    Track
    11
    Title
    4-Voice Canon No. 6
    Duration
    03:24
    Composer
    Larry Polansky
    Performer
    Larry Polansky, Anthony Braxton, Jody Diamond
  12. 12 4-Voice Canon No. 8 for Computer 08:52
    Track
    12
    Title
    4-Voice Canon No. 8 for Computer
    Duration
    08:52
    Composer
    Larry Polansky, Ray Guillette
    Performer
    Larry Polansky, Ray Guillette
  13. 13 4-Voice Canon No. 13 Headphone Canon 05:00
    Track
    13
    Title
    4-Voice Canon No. 13 Headphone Canon
    Duration
    05:00
    Composer
    Larry Polansky
    Performer
    Nick Didkovsky
  14. 14 4-Voice Canon No. 13 for Percussion 03:03
    Track
    14
    Title
    4-Voice Canon No. 13 for Percussion
    Duration
    03:03
    Composer
    Larry Polansky
    Performer
    Nathan Davis
  15. 15 4-Voice Canon No. 18 for Electric guitar, Cello and Percussion 05:05
    Track
    15
    Title
    4-Voice Canon No. 18 for Electric guitar, Cello and Percussion
    Duration
    05:05
    Composer
    Larry Polansky
    Performer
    Larry Polansky, Ha-Yang Kin, Nathan Davis