Polansky: 4-Voice Canons

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Label
Cold Blue Music
Release Date
November 1, 2002
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      POLANSKY, LARRY
    • PERFORMER
      Polansky, Winant, Goode, Didkovsky, Diamond, York Vocal Index, Brooks, Mann, Kin, Davis, Guillette
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 01, 2002
    • UPC
      800413001126
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CB0011
    • LABEL
      Cold Blue Music
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    Works
    1. 4-Voice Canon No. 4 for Marimba

      Composer: Larry Polansky

      Performer: William Winant

    2. 4-Voice Canon No. 7 for Gamelan

      Composer: Larry Polansky

      Performer: Jody Diamond

    3. 4-Voice Canon No. 17 for Fretless Electric Guitar

      Composer: Larry Polansky

      Performer: Larry Polansky

    4. 4-Voice Canon No. 9b

      Composer: Larry Polansky

      Performer: Anna Diamond Polansky, Larry Polansky

    5. 4-Voice Canon No. 14

      Composer: Larry Polansky

      Performer: Anna Diamond Polansky, Eliza Polli, Meghan Gallagher, Hester Godfrey, Nick Sinnott Armstrong, Saskia Nislow, Katie Lenhart

    6. 4-Voice Canon No. 16 for Computer

      Composer: Larry Polansky

      Performer: Larry Polansky

    7. 4-Voice Canon No. 12 for Choir

      Composer: Larry Polansky

      Ensemble: York Vocal Index

      Conductor: William Brooks

    8. 4-Voice Canon No. 10

      Composer: Larry Polansky

      Performer: Larry Polansky, Chris Mann

    9. 4-Voice Canon No. 13 Java Canon

      Composer: Larry Polansky

      Performer: Daniel Goode

    10. 4-Voice Canon No. 5 for Percussion

      Composer: Larry Polansky

      Performer: William Winant

    11. 4-Voice Canon No. 6

      Composer: Larry Polansky

      Performer: Larry Polansky, Anthony Braxton, Jody Diamond

    12. 4-Voice Canon No. 8 for Computer

      Composer: Larry Polansky, Ray Guillette

      Performer: Larry Polansky, Ray Guillette

    13. 4-Voice Canon No. 13 Headphone Canon

      Composer: Larry Polansky

      Performer: Nick Didkovsky

    14. 4-Voice Canon No. 13 for Percussion

      Composer: Larry Polansky

      Performer: Nathan Davis

    15. 4-Voice Canon No. 18 for Electric guitar, Cello and Percussion

      Composer: Larry Polansky

      Performer: Larry Polansky, Ha-Yang Kin, Nathan Davis


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.”