Process and Passion

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Kokoro [Stereophonic Presentation]    
2. Kokoro [Stereophonic Presentation] (Continued)    
3. Kokoro [Stereophonic Presentation] (Continued)    
4. Kokoro [Stereophonic Presentation] (Continued)    
5. Kokoro [Stereophonic Presentation] (Continued)    
6. Kokoro [Stereophonic Presentation] (Continued)    
7. Kokoro [Stereophonic Presentation] (Continued)    
8. Kokoro [Stereophonic Presentation] (Continued)    
9. Kokoro [Stereophonic Presentation] (Continued)    
10. Kokoro [Stereophonic Presentation] (Continued)    
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Disc: 2
1. Kokoro [Binaural Presentation]    
2. Kokoro [Binaural Presentation] (Continued)    
3. Kokoro [Binaural Presentation] (Continued)    
4. Kokoro [Binaural Presentation] (Continued)    
5. Kokoro [Binaural Presentation] (Continued)    
6. Kokoro [Binaural Presentation] (Continued)    
7. Kokoro [Binaural Presentation] (Continued)    
8. Kokoro [Binaural Presentation] (Continued)    
9. Kokoro [Binaural Presentation] (Continued)    
10. Kokoro [Binaural Presentation] (Continued)    
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Editorial Reviews
Album Description
A special 2 CDs for the price of 1 deal – with CD 1 (stereo) music encoded for CD 2 (binaural – headphone only listening), the listener gets their own personal surround sound-for-the-head version – the same music – but different!!!

This is a recording that explores the "extra"-ordinary potential of the CD not only as a carrier of traditionally recorded instrumental sound (CD 1), but also offering a different view through binaural encoding of the same materials spatialized (CD 2).

First you are presented with two solo compositions—Kokoro and Focus a beam, emptied of thinking, outward…—and the duo Process and Passion, in an acoustic recording, albeit with each instrument deliberately confined to one side of the stereo field. Then all three pieces are presented with extravagant sound processing, using spatialization concepts and binaural encoding, revealing unsuspected depths and energies within the sound of each of the pieces' ideas and unfolding.

"Architectures of sound"—meaning how things sound—form the shape of the compositions' emotional traversal. For the two solo pieces, this is a relatively simple idea: Kokoro (the violin solo) has twelve sections that are in every way timbrally/sonically/articulatively unique from one another. Focus a beam, emptied of thinking, outward… (the cello solo) provides an organic unfolding, nevertheless revealing the dynamic potential of its basic material development—contrast grows out of the unfolding. But the duo Process and Passion draws further complexity to this world, partly by being a stated collage of the two solo pieces' worlds, but also by having an outside, visceral—even scary—narrative gravitational pull. Poetic text excerpts are drawn from Reynolds’ explorations of the Oresteia, but they are left out of the final score.

It is hoped that the binaurally encoded disc included in this set will suggest to the solitary listener, in the comforts of his or her own headphones, how powerfully a choreographing of musical lines and gestures can dimensionalize musical experience. This realm and its satisfactions are only now coming into reach.

Process and Passion, Music, Hugh Livingston, Roger Reynolds, Mark Menzies, Atonal, Chamber, Chamber Music, Electro-Acoustic, Electronic
Process and Passion
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • virtuoso strings and cutting edge electronics
 Process and Passion

Manufacturer: Pogus
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00024WXTU
Release Date: 2004-04-27

Tracks:

  1. Kokoro [Stereophonic Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  2. Kokoro (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  3. Kokoro (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  4. Kokoro (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  5. Kokoro (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  6. Kokoro (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  7. Kokoro (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  8. Kokoro (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  9. Kokoro (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  10. Kokoro (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  11. Kokoro (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  12. Kokoro (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  13. Focus a Beam, Emptied of Thinking, Outward... [Stereophonic Presentatio - Hugh Livingston
  14. Process and Passion [Stereophonic Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies
  15. Process and Passion (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies
  16. Process and Passion (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies
  17. Process and Passion (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies
  18. Process and Passion (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies
  19. Process and Passion (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies
  20. Process and Passion (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies
  21. Process and Passion (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies
  22. Process and Passion (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies
  23. Process and Passion (Continued) [Stereophonic Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies

Tracks:

  1. Kokoro [Binaural Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  2. Kokoro (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  3. Kokoro (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  4. Kokoro (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  5. Kokoro (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  6. Kokoro (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  7. Kokoro (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  8. Kokoro (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  9. Kokoro (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  10. Kokoro (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  11. Kokoro (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  12. Kokoro (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Mark Menzies
  13. Focus a Beam, Emptied of Thinking, Outward... [Binaural Presentation] - Hugh Livingston
  14. Process and Passion [Binaural Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies
  15. Process and Passion (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies
  16. Process and Passion (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies
  17. Process and Passion (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies
  18. Process and Passion (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies
  19. Process and Passion (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies
  20. Process and Passion (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies
  21. Process and Passion (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies
  22. Process and Passion (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies
  23. Process and Passion (Continued) [Binaural Presentation] - Hugh Livingston, Mark Menzies

Album Description

A special 2 CDs for the price of 1 deal - with CD 1 (stereo) music encoded for CD 2 (binaural - headphone only listening), the listener gets their own personal surround sound-for-the-head version - the same music - but different!!!

This is a recording that explores the "extra"-ordinary potential of the CD not only as a carrier of traditionally recorded instrumental sound (CD 1), but also offering a different view through binaural encoding of the same materials spatialized (CD 2).

First you are presented with two solo compositions—Kokoro and Focus a beam, emptied of thinking, outward…—and the duo Process and Passion, in an acoustic recording, albeit with each instrument deliberately confined to one side of the stereo field. Then all three pieces are presented with extravagant sound processing, using spatialization concepts and binaural encoding, revealing unsuspected depths and energies within the sound of each of the pieces' ideas and unfolding.

"Architectures of sound"—meaning how things sound—form the shape of the compositions' emotional traversal. For the two solo pieces, this is a relatively simple idea: Kokoro (the violin solo) has twelve sections that are in every way timbrally/sonically/articulatively unique from one another. Focus a beam, emptied of thinking, outward… (the cello solo) provides an organic unfolding, nevertheless revealing the dynamic potential of its basic material development—contrast grows out of the unfolding. But the duo Process and Passion draws further complexity to this world, partly by being a stated collage of the two solo pieces' worlds, but also by having an outside, visceral—even scary—narrative gravitational pull. Poetic text excerpts are drawn from Reynolds' explorations of the Oresteia, but they are left out of the final score.

It is hoped that the binaurally encoded disc included in this set will suggest to the solitary listener, in the comforts of his or her own headphones, how powerfully a choreographing of musical lines and gestures can dimensionalize musical experience. This realm and its satisfactions are only now coming into reach.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars virtuoso strings and cutting edge electronics.......2005-06-14

PROCESS AND PASSION is a unique presentation of the music of Roger Reynolds, using binaural encoding, which produces the spatialization of sound. There are two discs, the first in conventional stereo, and the second containing the same three works, but binaurally encoded, which requires headphones. The conventional version would be great, but the enhancement makes it that much better!

The core works are two solo pieces, originally written for Irvine Arditti (violin) and Rohan de Saram (cello) of the Arditti Quartet. "Kokoro" for violin and "Focus a beam, emptied of thinking, outward..." for cello were originally recorded on the COCONINO disc by the quartet (see my review). PROCESS AND PASSION includes reworked versions of the solo pieces, and a third composition, "Process and Passion," which is a duet for violin and cello, which takes material from the solo pieces and pits them against one another along with a third electronic voice. There is an explicit symbolic content to the work, based on Greek tragedy, taken from Reynolds's RED ACT PROJECT, an operatic work that addresses violence, retribution and justice.

The virtuoso performers are Mark Menzies on violin and Hugh Livingston on cello, both of whom studied with Reynolds at UC-San Diego. They worked extensively with Reynolds's complex scores, and with his permission, collaborated with him in reworking them to make them more effective based on their knowledge of the instruments and his structural aims, so Menzies and Livingston are now co-authors of the works in their new versions.

This is another fine recording of the music of Roger Reynolds. When will THE RED ACT PROJECT be recorded? When will Mode release the promised set of orchestral works? The Reynolds Deficit must be addressed!

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  4. Rubbra: Symphony No.1/A Tribute/Sinfonia Concertante
  5. Saxophone Concertos [Import]
  6. Scintillating Sounds of Santoor
  7. Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5
  8. Shanghai Quartet performs Ravel and Bridge
  9. Snoopy's Classiks: Classical
  10. Solovision

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