- Teetines, for music box comb, mbiras, toy pianos & sound processing
- Solo Traveler, for 5 voices & 5 music boxes
- Ta-wee, for music boxes, music box comb & sound processing
- Through the Wall, for music boxes, piano wire & sound processing
- Amazing Grace Variations, for music boxes & sound processing
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0726708666521
Dare To Breathe Ensemble
David W. Moore Director
David Moore Director
John H. Morton Music Box
Miguel Frasconi Maracas Mbira,Toy Piano
John Morton Composer,Unknown Contributor Role,Processing
Joe Quesada Engineer
Mary Seibert Graphic Design
Cynthia Nadelman Poetry,Text
Josh Touster Photography
Philip Blackburn Executive Producer
Chris Campbell Operation
John H. Morton Processing
Craig Thorson Engineer
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A companion piece to the composer's first album, Outlier, John Morton's Solo Traveler again finds him creating musical works out of reconfigured music boxes, with sound processing and other performers added on occasion. Typical is the opening track, "Teetines," which begins in what sounds like a familiar pattern of sounds from an old-fashioned music box, but becomes increasingly complex as collaborator Miguel Frasconi's mbiras and toy pianos are added. The title track combines the sounds of five music boxes with the singing of the vocal group Dare to Breathe, who sing the words of Cynthia Nadelman's poem "The Cathedral as Process." It's good that those words are reproduced inside the CD booklet, because they could not easily be comprehended from the singing, which treats the syllables largely as sounds to be repeated, extended, and mixed up, just as Morton's music boxes rearrange the simple, conventional melodies the boxes originally played before he began reconstructing them. The composer works alone on the final three tracks, beginning with the music box sounds and then altering them and adding electronic and other sounds, notably the sound of piano wire pulled through holes in the music boxes during "Through the Wall." "Amazing Grace Variations," which closes the album, employs an existing melody at first, but takes it into unexpected and amazing sonic explorations. Morton's music isn't for everyone, not even for every fan of contemporary classical music, but it is a fascinating mixture of the commonplace and the avant-garde. ~ William Ruhlmann
Product Details
Release Date: | 04/10/2007 |
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Label: | Innova |
UPC: | 0726708666521 |
Rank: | 226838 |
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Album Credits
Performance Credits
John Morton Primary Artist,Music BoxDare To Breathe Ensemble
David W. Moore Director
David Moore Director
John H. Morton Music Box
Miguel Frasconi Maracas Mbira,Toy Piano
Technical Credits
William Whitehurst PhotographyJohn Morton Composer,Unknown Contributor Role,Processing
Joe Quesada Engineer
Mary Seibert Graphic Design
Cynthia Nadelman Poetry,Text
Josh Touster Photography
Philip Blackburn Executive Producer
Chris Campbell Operation
John H. Morton Processing
Craig Thorson Engineer
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