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Morphcycle 03:34
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Softspace 05:52
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Folded Orbit 04:11
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Concurring 11:27
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Tolling 05:08

about

Universes of multiple independent nows, each with its own synthesized past and projected future—perhaps this might be a useful way to imagine the grainy fabric of existence.

Nows are the places where actions are initiated.

This musical project is a collection of convergences created through a
unique collaborative process: co-creative sound correspondences. Propelled by our history of concurrent investigations into the origins of multiple times, conceptual spaces and notations, adaptive instrument interfaces, sonic imaging and improvisation, and subtle perspectives on lived musical nows, we were in the process of developing ideas for duo performance and recording projects, when, unexpectedly, our world was confronted by radical challenges brought on by nature’s ability to catch us off guard. A pandemic dematerialized the primacy of events. Gatherings were exchanged for remote interactions.

For us, new questions began to emerge: what is the meaning of co presence, if only experienced in isolation? How can we cultivate, consider, and collect spontaneous, shared nows, without being temporally or spatially co-present?

Starting with no goal other than to listen and play, we sent sonic ideas and fragments back and forth to each other, gradually collecting threads, themes, and commonalities. These links revealed themselves in surprising ways, emerging from experiments, transference, and concurrent imagining.

A frenzy, a dance, a reverie, a pause, a corridor, a leap, a shattering, a
whisper, . . . ear-stopping musical moments emerged as we navigated and validated alternative means of converging on a musical co-presence in an altered world, finding new pathways for co-creation.

Spanning nearly a year, a collection of non-linear sound correspondences accumulated, made with strings, horns, broken circuits, modular synthesizers, night bugs, voices, metal springs, no- input mixer feedback, forests, clap sticks, rattles, jingles, small drums, tuning forks, fire, gongs, vintage analog and digital signal processors, computers and software, instrument interfaces, mountain streams, tuned metal tines, urban and desert soundscapes, and other miscellaneous sounding objects.

Individually, we pieced these constructions together to create, explore, and witness an entirely new passing of time—layering moments, folding time, connecting nows. A single sonic fragment from a previous reflection might reveal a new thread to follow, leading to something unknown, a discovery.

Eventually, these co-creative sound worlds seemed to gravitate around certain centers: nature- informed environments, sound texture architectures, interstellar improvisations, and a multiplicity of narrative orbits. Hopefully, our process and its outcomes reflect and illuminate
some of the qualities of our times, our nows, on our planet, its organisms, and their ever-evolving, information-energy exchange rituals with our environment.

credits

released September 9, 2022

The nature of the co-creative process through which this project emerged resulted in an array of electronics, acoustic instruments, and other sounds appearing across the tracks of NOWS.

Sarah Belle Reid: Quarter-tone flugelhorn, piccolo & C trumpets, Buchla modular synthesizer, voice, MaxMSP, no input mixer, Make Noise Strega, Eurorack modular synthesizer, field recordings, bowed metal, and amplified household objects.

David Rosenboom: NS five-string electric violin, Buchla 200 series modular synthesizer, Eurorack modular synthesizer, Make Noise 0-Coast and 0-Ctrl, Lexicon MPX1, computer (with original software written with Reaktor), voice, tuning forks, ocarina, Aboriginal clap sticks, lizard rattle, herald trumpet, rawhide and wood drum, monkey drum, tambourine jingles, numerous original samples used in Soundhack Morphagene, field recordings, and other sounding objects.

Released on Ravello Records, September 9th 2022. Catalog #: RR8072

Recording, editing, and mixing engineering by SARAH BELLE REID and DAVID ROSENBOOM at the composers’ studios in Little Rock, AR, and Valencia, CA, 2021.

Supported in part by the Roy E. Disney Family Chair in Musical Composition at California Institute of the Arts.

David Rosenboom is a Yamaha Artist.

All compositions Copyright © Sarah Belle Reid and David Rosenboom and the David C. Rosenboom 2013 Trust 2022. Published by Sarah Belle Reid Publishing (ASCAP) and David Rosenboom Publishing (BMI).

Recording Copyright ℗ Sarah Belle Reid and David Rosenboom and the David C. Rosenboom 2013 Trust 2022. All rights reserved.

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Sarah Belle Reid & David Rosenboom

Sarah Belle Reid is a performer-composer who plays trumpet, modular synthesizer, and an ever-growing collection of handcrafted electronic instruments.

David Rosenboom is a post-genre composer-performer, interdisciplinary artist, author and educator, known as a pioneer in American experimental music.
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