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Ulrich
Krieger
Winters in the Abyss
Please
note:
This release packaging comes folded into quarters,
ending up as a 5 ½” x 5 ½” brochure style booklet
(liner notes inside), with the CD in a paper sleeve,
all inserted into re-sealable plastic sleeves. There
is no jewel case, tray card etc. There is a bar
code.
Matt Barbier – trombone; Zara Rivera – French horn; Paul
Rivera – contrabass trombone
Winters in the Abyss
are the first five pieces of Ulrich Krieger’s Deep-Sea
cycle, which compromises a total of 14 pieces. Each
movement of Winters in
the Abyss can stand on its own and be performed as
an independent piece. Numbered in order of their
composition, the movements from V to I follow the sinking of
this material from light flooded, warm near-surface waters
to high pressure, pitch black and extreme cold deep-sea
trenches.
Winters in the Abyss
takes the fictional undertone series, an upside-down
overtone series, as its compositional material. Analogue to
water pressure, the density of pitches is higher in the
lower range and gets thinner in the upper range. The
structures of the individual pieces follow the pressure,
amount of live and movement being present in the respective
depths. Therefore there is more movement in the higher
regions and less in the lower regions. Based on an undertone
series Winters in the
Abyss is in Just Intonation, making its performance
even more challenging by having the series ‘on its head’.
An hour long endeavor on three brass instruments is a
daunting task, but it also provides an unique opportunity
for the performers to explore their physical and
instrumental limits in a separate mode from the traditional
pitfalls of brass endurance - missed high tones and playing
wrong overtones. Winters
removes that - the extremely low tessitura eliminates
concerns of fatigue decreasing one's range or a lack of
focus causing pitch errors. Long held concerns are stripped
away and all that's left is staying in the middle of the
sound and maintaining it. The instruments are all
close-microphoned, therefore amplifying elements of the
sound normally not or only weakly audible: air within tone,
sound of spit, weaker partials, tiny tone fluctuations, and
more. This results in a redefined brass sound that only
pretends to be acoustic, due to the lack of electronic
manipulation, but is inherently processed.
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Triple Point |
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