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NMC168 Hayden-Wyas-Booklet Sam Hayden presence/absence Trio EKL ELISION • Eugene Ughetti conductor ensemble mosaik • Enno Poppe conductor NMC is grateful to the RVW Trust for its support of this DISTRIBUTION recording. NMC recordings are distributed in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Sam Hayden Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong system/error was recorded live by RICK CAMPION at The Kong, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Warehouse, London SE1 as part of the 2007 BMIC Cutting Zealand, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United And bonus download track: Edge Series on 22 November 2007, and mixed by Rick Kingdom and the United States, and are also available 1 system/error 16’23 Campion and Sam Hayden during summer 2010 at through our website www.nmcrec.co.uk Goldsmiths College Electronic Music Studio, London. Trio EKL schismatics 13’45 NMC recordings are available to download in MP3 and FLAC Mieko Kanno violin I 2’54 presence/absence and Die Modularitäten were recorded at format from our website. Anne La Berge flutes Siemensvilla, Gärtnerstrasse, Berlin, Germany on 28-29 March FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE CONTACT: II 2’19 2011 for Deutschlandradio, and mixed on 19-20 July 2011. NMC Recordings Ltd, Claire Edwardes percussion RAINER PÖLLMANN Executive Producer for Deutschlandradio III Somerset House, Third Floor, South Wing, 1’05 FLORIAN SCHMIDT Recording Producer & Digital Editing Strand, London, WC2R 1LA 2 IV 0’33 BORRIS MANYCH Recording Engineer presence/absence 15’03 JOHANNA VOLLUS Technician Tel. +44 (0)20 7759 1827/8 ensemble mosaik V 0’47 Fax. +44 (0)20 7759 1829 misguided was recorded live at Iwaki Auditorium, ABC E-mail: [email protected] Enno Poppe conductor VI 2’10 Southbank, Melbourne, Australia on 26 March 2011 for ABC Website: www.nmcrec.co.uk Classic FM. VII 3’57 All rights of the manufacturer and owner of the recorded misguided 20’09 STEPHEN ADAMS Recording Producer material reserved. Unauthorised public performance, Mieko Kanno electric violin NICHOLAS MIERISCH, BRENDAN O’NEILL Recording Engineers broadcasting and copying of this recording prohibited. 3 I 3’52 Sam Hayden computer schismatics was recorded at Coombehurst Studio, University misguided is licensed courtesy of ABC Classic FM, Australian 4 II (a) 2’28 of Kingston, London on 19 August 2010. Broadcasting Corporation. 5 II (b) 2’31 To download this track, DAVID LEFEBER Recording Producer / Engineer visit www.nmcrec.co.uk A co-production with Deutschlandradio Kultur 6 III 4’36 RICK CAMPION Mastering COLIN MATTHEWS Executive Producer for NMC 7 IV 3’52 VIRGIL FERRAGUT Cover image FRANCOIS HALL Graphic design 8 V 2’50 presence/absence and Die Modularitäten ELISION Works on this disc are published by the composer. ® 2012 Deutschlandradio/NMC Recordings Ltd Eugene Ughetti conductor NMC Recordings is a charitable company misguided ® 2012 ABC Radio (reg. no. 328052) established for the recording of contemporary music by the Holst Foundation; it is grateful for system/error and schismatics ® 2012 NMC Recordings Ltd 9 Die Modularitäten 20’17 funding from Arts Council England. © 2012 NMC Recordings Ltd ensemble mosaik HANNAH VLC˘EK Label Manager NMC D168 ELEANOR WILSON Sales and Marketing Manager Enno Poppe conductor ANNE RUSHTON Executive Director Total timing 72’06 2 Photo: Astrid Karger 15 With thanks to the trusts, foundations and individuals who have invested in NMC’s Debut Discs series: ELISION Richard Haynes clarinets The Astor Foundation Timothy O’Dwyer saxophones The John S Cohen Foundation Tristram Williams trumpets Benjamin Marks trombone The Fenton Arts Trust Eugene Ughetti conductor Nicholas and Judith Goodison Daryl Buckley artistic director Mercers' Charitable Foundation The Stanley Picker Charitable Trust ensemble mosaik The Radcliffe Trust presence/absence: RVW Trust Bettina Junge bass flute Martin Losert baritone saxophone Jennifer Roslyn Wingate Seth Josel guitar Karen Lorenz viola The individuals who donated through Roland Neffe percussion The Big Give Christmas Challenge Die Modularitäten: December 2011 Bettina Junge piccolo/alto flute Christian Vogel e-flat/bass clarinet (see www.nmcrec.co.uk/debutdiscs) Martin Losert soprano/baritone saxophone Ernst Surberg piano/electronic sounds Chatschatur Kanajan violin Karen Lorenz viola Mathis Mayr cello Enno Poppe conductor 14 Cover artwork created by Virgil Ferragut, a student from the BA (Hons) Graphic Design Sam Hayden course at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design. Students were briefed to create by Björn Heile cover artwork for the series and winning students selected to have their work used in NMC’s Debut Discs series; the judging panel included NMC’s Executive Producer Colin Matthews, designer Vaughan Oliver and journalist and broadcaster Tom Service. Sam Hayden’s music is not ingratiating. It called ‘complexity school’ or European does not demand to be loved and it does minimalism. While it would be wrong to Born in Paris in 1991, Virgil Virgil Ferragut writes: not flatter listeners by allowing easy claim that his music is entirely sui Ferragut grew up in Madrid This design started from a recognition of models or technical generis, unlike any other, Hayden is and is currently studying deep and personal interest in procedures. It does not lead them by the evidently not content with simply following Graphic Design at Central the peculiar sound of Sam hand from moment to moment, nor does a pre-established path. He has no interest Saint Martins School of Arts Hayden’s piece system/error; inspired by the leading role of it caress or seduce them with slick or in becoming the standard-bearer for this and Design, London. Having studied back in his home the percussion and the sense glossy sonic surfaces. There are no school or faction or to win the acclaim of country the tools a graphic of organized chaos, I knowing nudges here, no ‘I see what that influential group of critics. designer uses, now he is developed a methodology you’re doing there’. The music does not able to explore his creativity confronting the natural with The energy of the performance gestures the mechanical. set out to please anyone in particular: in any form of expression. is much more important than the literal Fully committed to every although Hayden does not obscure the Architecture and instruments interpretation of the notation.* brief he gets, he always tries in themselves are made formative influences he has received as a to find a good balance entirely by people to be used student of, among others, Michael Instead, his music is deeply serious. This between deep content and and controlled by people. Finnissy and Louis Andriessen in his word has become rather old-fashioned, so strong form. He truly They are artificial. However, music, he is also a connoisseur of such that it almost requires, if not an apology, at believes, and always tries to when people become I have also emphasised the apply in this work, what one involved, it becomes like a absence of colour and white genres as jazz-fusion, prog-rock, free least an explanation. Hayden’s music is of his tutors once said: city, a living organism, and space, making the design as improv, metal and electronica, and has serious because he takes it seriously ‘Everything communicates the situation transforms into strong and clear as Sam’s worked with the Swiss ‘Avant-core’ trio himself: it is painstakingly constructed, something’. something more natural. piece. Steamboat Switzerland – aspects of his without shortcuts and without the ‘painting- musical personality that are just as by-numbers’ routines of models and NMC’s Debut Discs Series includes releases by Huw Watkins, Sam Hayden and Dai Fujikura. audible as is his indebtedness to the so techniques that can be readily recycled For more information visit our website at www.nmcrec.co.uk/debut-discs 4 13 THERE ARE FOUR NMC FRIENDS LEVELS OF SUPPORT: Set up as a registered charity in 1989, NMC Friend £50 (£20 concession) (12 months) Recordings is devoted to the promotion and • Advance notice to purchase new releases preservation of Britain’s musical heritage through • Quarterly newsletter by post or email acclaimed recordings of music by the best of • Invitations to events including CD launches today’s composers, performed and recorded to the Benefactor £100 (12 months) highest standards. from piece to piece. Every composition is ‘forbidding’. Nor does it necessarily aim • As above plus ... 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