White Bone Country

by Andrew Byrne

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White Bone Country: Part 1 for processed piano & percussion 05:29
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White Bone Country: Part 1 for solo piano 03:56
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White Bone Country: Part 1 for solo crotales 04:39
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White Bone Country: Part 2 for piano and gongs 02:38
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White Bone Country: Part 2 for piano & bells 01:08
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White Bone Country: Part 2 for piano & knocking 02:38
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White Bone Country: Part 3 for solo piano 01:32
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White Bone Country: Part 3 for piano inside & out 03:02
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White Bone Country: Part 3 for piano, crotales & glockenspiel 03:16
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Tracks for solo piano 08:57
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Fata Morgana I for prepared piano 03:36
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Fata Morgana II for prepared piano 04:00
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Fata Morgana III for prepared piano 05:27
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Fata Morgana IV for prepared piano 04:39
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Stephen Gosling, piano; David Shively, percussion

Andrew Byrne's tripartite CD has a mobile-like character, working entirely with a fabric of piano and metal percussion in changing manners and images, all of them remote from the duo relationship of conventional chamber music.

The central work, Tracks, is also the earliest one (composed 1998, revised 2006), and presents the solo piano in its most 'normal' sound and interaction with the player－a kind of journey, as the title suggests, within a dense and accumulating polyrhythmic expression. The two surrounding groups of pieces extend from this in two different directions－the opening White Bone Country (2006) towards reduced sound-reveries in processed piano and small metal percussion, the succeeding Mirages (2007) into pure sonic fantasies made from sampled sounds of prepared piano.

Byrne relates these pieces to "the other American experimental tradition of Cowell, Harrison, Peter Garland, John Luther Adams, rather than the New York minimalists/post-minimalists－to their concerns with polyrhythms in a reduced meditative sound world, suggestions of strange folk musics, depiction of landscape."

Fundamental to the language of all Byrne's pieces are pulsations, from which varied melodic motives and overlaid rhythmic meters can be drawn. In this respect his approach differs from other landscape-orientated music based on drones and evolving fields of sound, along with their opposite, flurries of irregular disjunct rhythms.

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released January 6, 2009

Mixing and editing: Anthony Burr

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Andrew Byrne Melbourne, Australia

Andrew Byrne is a composer and arts programmer whose creative work explores systems and process-based procedures. Living in New York for two decades, he immersed himself in American experimental-minimalist scene, which has had a profound impact on his own creative output. His work in artistic planning led to directorial roles at Carnegie Hall and Symphony Space. Andrew is now based in Melbourne. ... more

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