Ursel Schlicht Bruce Arnold
Featuring:
Bruce Arnold—Guitar and SuperCollider
Ursel Schlicht—Piano and Prepared Piano
On "String Theory" pianist/composer and sometime musical
feminist Ursel Schlicht and guitarist, composer and educator Bruce
Arnold team up for an outing of free improvisation that stretch the
limits of both their instruments.
The two met at a Jazz festival in Monterrey Mexico and immediately felt
an affinity for improvising with each other. Ms. Schlicht is one of a
handful of contemporary players who are successfully using extended
techniques to expand the vocabulary of the piano and who finds her true
voice in these free expressions. Arnold has a field day reacting with
his processed guitar to all of the acoustically generated sounds that
Schlicht throws at him. Indeed in this recording, the juxtaposition of
acoustic versus electronically generated sounds is one of its strongest
characteristics.
Bruce Arnold is best known for his explorations into the possibilities
of twelve tone applications to jazz improvisation. But here his use of
guitar and SuperCollider, (an object oriented computer program that
allows for unlimited sonic processing) takes center stage. Both artists
go back and forth between straightforward playing, i.e. linear and
tonal passages, and more avant sorties into texture and atmosphere. The
two feed off each other with ideas and passages of remarkable
coherence; it is a delight to witness interactions of this clarity.
String Theory—$12.99
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