Broken Symmetries features four of my electro-acoustic pieces written between 2012 and 2016.
This music is very personal, as I perform on electronics on 3 of the 4 tracks collected here. These pieces are my attempt to merge two distinct aspects of my personality as an artist, drawing my largely improvisatory language as a laptopist into the world of composition and notation, while at the same time pulling my notation-based language into the world of improvisation. This is the drama of the music.
While personal, these works were also all written for the people on these recordings, who are some of my best friends and without whom this music simply could not exist. A million thanks to Wet Ink, Anne, and Mivos for their incredible musicianship.
-Sam Pluta, Oct 2017
credits
released November 12, 2017
Anne La Berge - flute
Mivos Quartet:
Olivia De Prato - violin
Josh Modney - violin
Victor Lowrie - viola
Mariel Roberts - cello
w/ Sam Pluta - electronics
Wet Ink Ensemble:
Erin Lesser - flutes
Josh Modney - violin
Alex Mincek - tenor sax
Eric Wubbels - piano
Ian Antonio - percussion
Sam Pluta - electronics
Mixed by Sam Pluta at the CHIME Studio at the University of Chicago
Mastered by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay at the University of Huddersfield
Recorded at the University of Chicago, the DiMenna Center for the Arts, and Amherst College
supported by 15 fans who also own “Broken Symmetries”
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