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    Michael Gordon 8 Cello Octet Amsterdam

    Michael Gordon
    8
    Cello Octet Amsterdam

    Cello Octet Amsterdam


    Alistair Sung, Claire Bleumer, Esther Torrenga, Geneviève Verhage,
    Rares Mihailescu, René van Munster, Sanne Bijker, Sanne van der Horst
    Eight cellos in a circle. The audience can sit around the octet, or even inside
    the circle. The cellists start to play, and the resulting music spirals around like
    a moving object.
    8 is part of a series of works that started with Timber for six percussionists
    playing amplified simantras, and includes Rushes for seven bassoonists and
    Amplified for four electric guitarists. Each of these works is meant to induce a
    quasi-meditative, almost ecstatic state, in the listener as well as the performer.
    The series for like-instruments is meant to be played seamlessly and grow to
    encompass an entire day.
    The innovation in this piece is that the sound travels around the circle in both
    directions. If you are in the middle of the circle, you can hear the dimension-
    ality and perspective of the sound clearly. If you put on headphones and
    listen closely to the recording, you can hear the bass notes traveling in space
    independently of the melody line. Each cellist plays both the melody and the
    bass, switching back and forth in a choreography of musical roles.
    I think of this perspective of sound a bit like moving from two-dimensional
    art to three-dimensional art. Sound isn’t a flat line — now it takes on multiple
    roles in space and time. It is a sculpture of three-dimensions. I picked the title
    8 because the number is a beautiful rounded gliding symbol that looks like the
    cellos when they play together.
    — Michael Gordon
    Recorded at the Oosterkerk in Zeist, Netherlands on July 8-11, 2019
    Recorded, edited, produced and mastered by Frerik de Jong (Kleinman Audio)
    8 was commissioned by Cello Octet Amsterdam with support from Cello Biennale Amsterdam and November Music.
    It premiered at the Cello Biennale Amsterdam, presented by the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, on October 20, 2018.
    Michael Gordon’s 8 © 2018 by Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP)

    Special thanks to: Amber Docters van Leeuwen, Eduard Ninot Roig and Lieselot Watté, who played on the world
    premiere performance of 8; Johan Dorrestein and everyone at Cello Biennale Amsterdam, Bert Palinckx and everyone
    at November Music, Frerik de Jong, Ashley Bathgate, Damian LeGassick, Julia Wolfe, David Lang, Amanda Ameer,
    Mike McCurdy and everyone at Bang on a Can and Cantaloupe Music.

    Executive Producers: Michael Gordon, David Lang, Kenny Savelson, and Julia Wolfe
    Label Manager: Bill Murphy
    Sales and Licensing: Adam Cuthbert
    Label Assistant: Cassie Wieland
    Art Direction and Design: Denise Burt

    For more about everything you hear on this recording, visit michaelgordonmusic.com, cellooctet.com or cantaloupemusic.com.
    To get specially priced advance copies of all our new releases, as well as catalog discounts and other perks, sign up for the Cantaloupe
    Club or our digital subscription service at cantaloupemusic.com/fans. As always, we thank you for your invaluable support.

    Cantaloupe Music is from the creators of Bang on a Can.


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