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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