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24 Lies Per Second
Various composers

Powerplant / Joby Burgess

24 Lies Per Second

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212031322
Catnr: SIGCD 313
Release date: 01 December 2012
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Signum Classics
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0635212031322
Catalogue number
SIGCD 313
Release date
01 December 2012
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About the album

An exhilarating new album of contemporary music shaped by the collaborative musical collective Powerplant, featuring performances from percussionist Joby Burgess in collaboration with sound designer Matthew Fairclough and visual artist Kathy Hinde. 24 Lies Per Second combines works by contemporary British composers – Graham Fitkin, Max de Wardener and Dominic Murcott – with two pieces by compositional icons Conlon Nancarrow and Steve Reich, including the Reich work My Name Is (for audience and tape recorder) which has never before been released commercially.
Opwindende hedendaagse muziek uitgevoerd door het dynamische Powerplant
Powerplant verkent door slagwerk geleide muziek met een elektronische klank en een krachtige uitvoering. De groep brengt enkele van de meest dynamische Britse artiesten bij elkaar: de virtuoze percussionist Joby Burgess, de live geluidstechnicus Matthew Fairclouch en de visuele artiest Kathy Hinde. Samen creëren ze experimenteel en uitdagend repertoire, bestaande uit bekende percussiewerken naast hun eigen improvisaties en werken.

Dit opwindende album met moderne muziek combineert werken van hedendaagse Britse componisten – Graham Fitkin, Max de Warderner en Dominic Murcott – met twee werken van de iconische componisten Conlon Nancarrow en Steve Reich, waaronder Reichs werk My Name is (voor publiek en bandrecorder) dat nog nooit eerder commercieel is uitgebracht.

Artist(s)

Joby Burgess (percussion)

One of Britain’s most diverse percussionists, Joby is best known for his virtuosic, often lissom performances, daring collaborations, extensive education work, and regularly appears throughout Europe, the USA and beyond. Dedicated to the development of the percussion repertoire, often in combination with electronics, Joby spends much of his time commissioning and recording new music. Recent highlights have included the release Gabriel Prokofiev’s Bass Drum Concerto with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra on Signum Records, ‘PUNKIT’ – an adventurous participatory project for massed percussion ensemble by Stephen Deazley, and ‘Pioneers of Percussion’ – a solo recital programme featuring new work by Nicol Lizée, Linda Buckley and Rebecca Dale. Joby’s audio visual collective Powerplant – where the worlds of minimalism and electronica collide – has...
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One of Britain’s most diverse percussionists, Joby is best known for his virtuosic, often lissom performances, daring collaborations, extensive education work, and regularly appears throughout Europe, the USA and beyond.
Dedicated to the development of the percussion repertoire, often in combination with electronics, Joby spends much of his time commissioning and recording new music. Recent highlights have included the release Gabriel Prokofiev’s Bass Drum Concerto with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra on Signum Records, ‘PUNKIT’ – an adventurous participatory project for massed percussion ensemble by Stephen Deazley, and ‘Pioneers of Percussion’ – a solo recital programme featuring new work by Nicol Lizée, Linda Buckley and Rebecca Dale.
Joby’s audio visual collective Powerplant – where the worlds of minimalism and electronica collide – has released albums on Signum and Nonclassical featuring music by Steve Reich, Gabriel Prokofiev, Graham Fitkin and Max de Wardener.
Joby regularly performs, records and collaborates with artists including Christophe Beck, Stewart Copeland, Peter Gabriel, Murray Gold, Will Gregory (Goldfrapp), John Kenny, Sarah Leonard, Joanna MacGregor, Dario Marianelli, Max Richter, Sasha (DJ), Nitin Sawhney, Keith Tippett, Pete Tong (DJ) and Adrian Utley (Portishead) along with many of the world’s leading chamber ensembles.
Joby can often be heard on major film and TV scores, notably leading the percussion on Black Panther, Ex Machina, The Last Kingdom and Taboo. Joby enjoys close relationships with a variety of instrument makers and manufactures, his extensive collection of instruments are featured exclusively on Spitfire Audio’s sample library Spitfire Percussion.

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Powerplant

Powerplant is an inspiring collaboration of British artists, comprising Joby Burgess’ playing and electronics with sound design by Matthew Fairclough and visuals by Kathy Hinde. The collective made its debut in 2005, with a sell-out performance at the Southbank Centre, London and has since performed extensively throughout Europe, the USA and beyond, creating an experimental and challenging repertoire fusing seminal percussion works alongside its own work, improvisations, remixes and commissions. Powerplant’s debut album – “a must for anyone surfing the sine waves and all things electronica” Muso Magazine – includes remixes of Kraftwerk featuring the Elysian Quartet alongside Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint. Released in 2008 on Signum Records, “Burgess transfers it to a xylosynth, to a create a glinting, chiming...
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Powerplant is an inspiring collaboration of British artists, comprising Joby Burgess’ playing and electronics with sound design by Matthew Fairclough and visuals by Kathy Hinde. The collective made its debut in 2005, with a sell-out performance at the Southbank Centre, London and has since performed extensively throughout Europe, the USA and beyond, creating an experimental and challenging repertoire fusing seminal percussion works alongside its own work, improvisations, remixes and commissions. Powerplant’s debut album – “a must for anyone surfing the sine waves and all things electronica” Muso Magazine – includes remixes of Kraftwerk featuring the Elysian Quartet alongside Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint. Released in 2008 on Signum Records, “Burgess transfers it to a xylosynth, to a create a glinting, chiming soundworld that seems perfectly judged for Reich’s canonical writing.” The Guardian. The second album Import/Export – Burgess’ landmark collaboration with Gabriel Prokofiev – was released in 2010 on Nonclassical Records. Including remixes by artists such as Murcof and a DVD of performances, interviews and documentaries; Prokofiev’s suite for global junk is “pollution as a sound source, recycled to maximum effect ” The Wire. Internationally acclaimed percussionist Joby Burgess is best known for his virtuosic, lissom performances, daring collaborations and extensive education work. Burgess regularly appears both on stage and in recordings with artists including Peter Gabriel, Joanna MacGregor, Stewart Copeland, Peter Maxwell Davies and his chamber groups ensemblebash and New Noise.

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Steve Reich

Steve Reich was recently called  'our greatest living composer' (The New York Times) and  “...the most original musical thinker of our time” (The New Yorker). From his early taped speech pieces It's Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966) to his and video artist Beryl Korot’s digital video opera Three Tales (2002), Reich's path has embraced not only aspects of Western Classical music, but the structures, harmonies, and rhythms of non-Western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz. 'There's just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them,' states The Guardian. In 1966 Steve Reich founded his own ensemble of three musicians, which rapidly grew to 18...
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Steve Reich was recently called "our greatest living composer" (The New York Times) and “...the most original musical thinker of our time” (The New Yorker). From his early taped speech pieces It's Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966) to his and video artist Beryl Korot’s digital video opera Three Tales (2002), Reich's path has embraced not only aspects of Western Classical music, but the structures, harmonies, and rhythms of non-Western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz. "There's just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them," states The Guardian.

In 1966 Steve Reich founded his own ensemble of three musicians, which rapidly grew to 18 members or more. Since 1971, Steve Reich and Musicians have frequently toured the world, and have the distinction of performing to sold-out houses at venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall and the Bottom Line Cabaret.

Reich's 1988 piece, Different Trains, marked a new compositional method, rooted in It's Gonna Rain and Come Out, in which speech recordings generate the musical material for musical instruments. The New York Times hailed Different Trains as "a work of such astonishing originality that breakthrough seems the only possible description."

Steve Reich's music has been performed by major orchestras and ensembles around the world, including the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta, The Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by David Robertson, the Schoenberg Ensemble conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw and the BBC Symphony conducted by Peter Eötvös. Over the years, he has received commissions from amongst others the Barbican Centre London, the Holland Festival, San Francisco Symphony, Vienna Festival and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.

Several noted choreographers have created dances to Steve Reich's music, including Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Jirí Kylían, Jerome Robbins and Laura Dean.
Performing organizations around the world marked Steve Reich's 70th- birthday year, 2006, with festivals and special concerts.


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