Noah Creshevsky
Rounded with a Sleep
Electroacoustic Music: Rounded with a Sleep; La Sonnambula; Lisa Barnard Redux;
What If; Tomomi Adachi Redux II; The Kindness of Strangers; In Memoriam
"
dazzling virtuosity and boundless imagination
simply gorgeous
one
of the most interesting composers I know." -Jed Distler, Gramophone
Active in electronic composition since 1971, Noah Creshevsky delights
in presenting extreme and unpredictable juxtapositions in which the integration
of electronic and acoustic sources and processes creates virtual "superperformers"
by using the sounds of traditional instruments pushed past human capacities.
Creshevsky uses the term Hyperrealism to describe his electroacoustic language
constructed from found sounds, handled in ways that are exaggerated or intense.
Creshevsky's first full length CD on Pogus (and hopefully not his last) works
his sampling wizardry on performances by Sherman Friedland (clarinet); Lisa
Barnard Kelley and Tomomi Adachi (voices); piano improvisations by Stuart Isacoff;
Gary Heidt (voice and guitar); Rich Gross (lap steel/banjo); Orin Buck (bass);
Juho Laitinen (cello).
As always his music needs to be heard to be believed. A truly singular voice.
"
Creshevsky's music is cosmopolitan and streetwise post modern
expression
I do not exaggerate when I say that I have never heard anything
like Creshevsky's music before
If you're up for an aural adventure, here's
your ticket." -Josh Mailman, American Record Guide
"His works are powerful musical statements that may also become historically
important
totally fascinating."
-Randy Raine-Reusch, Musicworks
"Creshevsky is as much a virtuoso of the sampler as anyone working
in the field.
His sampler is a means toward not only superhuman virtuosity,
but a new universality." -Kyle Gann, Village Voice
Also available from Pogus:
FAVORITE ENCORES, Music of Noah Creshevsky and
If, Bwana (Pogus 21049-2)
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