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Scott Miller: Tipping Point
New Focus Recordings

Scott Miller: Tipping Point

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Composer
MILLER, SCOTT
Artist
Scott Miller
Format
CD
Label
New Focus Recordings
Released
May 12, 2015
Catalog #
FCR161
UPC
600116686121

About

Scott Miller's Tipping Point chronicles a long collaborative relationship between him and Minneapolis based new music ensemble, Zeitgeist. The members of Zeitgeist have regularly acted as a musical proving ground for Miller's explorations, particularly those combining acoustic instruments with interactive-electronic effects. From the opening measures of the title track, Miller's approach to integrating acoustic instruments into an electroacoustic environment is apparent. The tipping point Miller refers to may well be the edge at which we can no longer identify where the acoustic instruments end and the electronics begin. Funhouse dives immediately into this ambiguity, as snarling bass clarinet multiphonics mimic and later become absorbed into the carefully crafted noise world of the electronics. Pure Pleasure's percussive rhythms are manipulated timbrally as well as sent swirling around the stereo field in passages of spatialized virtuosity. Featuring soprano Carrie Henneman Shaw, Forth and Back's haunting minimalism suggests the slow evolution of a mind at work as it gains understanding over a puzzling paradigm: none other than time itself and our ability to transcend it through union with another. Mr. Miller is currently the President of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS).

Tracklist 6 tracks

  1. 1 Tipping Point 10:42
    Track
    1
    Title
    Tipping Point
    Duration
    10:42
    Composer
    Scott L. Miller
    Performer
    Scott L. Miller
    Ensemble
    Zeitgeist
  2. 2 Forth and Back 17:05
    Track
    2
    Title
    Forth and Back
    Duration
    17:05
    Composer
    Scott L. Miller
    Performer
    Scott L. Miller
    Ensemble
    Zeitgeist
  3. 3 Pure Pleasure 05:02
    Track
    3
    Title
    Pure Pleasure
    Duration
    05:02
    Composer
    Scott L. Miller
    Performer
    Scott L. Miller
    Ensemble
    Zeitgeist
  4. 4 Twilight 05:12
    Track
    4
    Title
    Twilight
    Duration
    05:12
    Composer
    Scott L. Miller
    Performer
    Scott L. Miller
    Ensemble
    Zeitgeist
  5. 5 Funhouse 13:37
    Track
    5
    Title
    Funhouse
    Duration
    13:37
    Composer
    Scott L. Miller
    Performer
    Scott L. Miller, Pat O'Keefe
    Ensemble
    Zeitgeist
  6. 6 Consortia 10:33
    Track
    6
    Title
    Consortia
    Duration
    10:33
    Composer
    Scott L. Miller
    Performer
    Scott L. Miller