Radiance

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2016-05-31

Label: Schwebung

12 album-length releases
Full resolution lossless + other formats of choice
Each part comes with a set of digital file cards


RADIANCE comprises twelve new album-length pieces, each of them following the concept of stasis, the unfolding of time and sustained
frequencies, deep listening, and immersive soundscapes. The sequence for the whole set is conceived as one long, growing album in twelve parts:


I. ALAP FOR STEEL NEEDLE, RECORD AND THEORBE
(May 26. 2016)
A dedication to early music pioneer and instrument maker Arnold Dolmetsch

II. MUSIC FOR THE ANSWER (June 21. 2016)
A score by France Jobin and Stephan Mathieu for Cedrick Eymenier’s film The Answer

III. BLACK SQUARE FOR ROBERT FLUDD (July 21. 2016)
For 78rpm records

IV. A RAINBOW OF MOONLIGHT (August 30. 2016)
For voices and gongs

V. FOR FRANZ WRIGHT (September 2016)
For piano, tabletop zither and shortwave radio

VI. KEPLER (October 2016)
For piano and planetary movements

VII. PROCESS (November 2016)
For Renaissance strings, mechanical-acoustic gramophones and binary code

VIII. TO HAVE ELEMENTS EXIST IN SPACE (December 2016)
An interpretation of Earle Brown’s seminal graphic score December 1952*

IX. FOR MORTON FELDMAN (January 2017)
For percussion and strings*

X. HER DARK GAZE DROWNED IN LIGHT (February 2017)
A re-narration of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr

XI. MUSIC WITH MAGNETIC STRINGS (March 2017)
For ebowed virginals. Dedicated to Alvin Lucier

XII. PACIFIC (October 2017)


*RADIANCE VIII and IX are commissions by the Earle Brown Music Foundation New York in celebration of Feldman and Brown’s 90th Birthdays