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Keeril Makan: Target

by Keeril Makan

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2 17:36
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2.
Zones d'accord 08:53
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3.
Target: Twister I 02:33
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4.
Target: Leaflet I 02:20
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Target: PsyOps: Know Your Target 02:36
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Target: Leaflet II 02:44
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Target: Twister II 03:21
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Target: Resonance Alloy 29:06
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"A sound world in which music emerges unexpectedly out of violent textures, gestures and cries."
– Gramophone

"A whollop of powerful emotional content [and] the recording is of excellent quality."
– New Music Box

"A composer that is destined for greatness, and this recording is proof of that."
– Chamber Musician Today

This CD presents the premiere recordings of four works by Keeril Makan, described as “an arrestingly gifted young American composer” by The New Yorker.

Pulitzer-winner David Lang wrote the CD’s Introduction, remarking that when he first heard Makan’s music he was “blown away” by works that were “so strong and so smart.” Regarding this CD, he concludes “the depth of feeling, percolating way down deep, never boiling over and yet never going away [is] strangely powerful, and all his own.”

The CD opens with 2, performed by Either/Or’s Jennifer Choi (violin) and David Shively (percussion). 20th Century Music writes, “This was a masterful piece, one of the best heard this year. Far from music in the abstract, 2 is a work-it-out-in-the-raw-sounds kind of piece that revels in its sonic splendors.”

Passionately performed by Either/Or’s cellist Alex Waterman, the prize-winning Zones d’accord has been described as “a masterful piece, one of the best heard this year. Far from music in the abstract, 2 is a work-it-out-in-the-raw-sounds kind of piece that revels in its sonic splendors” (20th Century Music).

Makan collaborated with poet Jena Osman to create Target for soprano and chamber ensemble. The New York Times described Target’s premiere at Carnegie Hall as:

“A moody, ruminative and volatile setting [meant] as a stinging political commentary on American military intervention abroad. Mr. Makan responded to the earthy, rich and poignant qualities of Ms. Rubin's voice by writing music thick with sliding, moaning figurations for the voice and all the instruments.”

Lang attended the premiere of the “muscular and terrifying” Target, “a scary, aggressive juggernaut of invention.” The CD’s performance features Rubin and the California E.A.R. Unit.

The CD ends with Resonance Alloy, recorded by percussionist David Shively in an astonishing, single, unedited performance of the 29-minute work. This piece intensely explores continuously shifting timbres produced by vibrating metals. Makan writes:

“Resonance Alloy is directly inspired by James Tenney’s Having Never Written a Note for Percussion (1971) generally performed on a tam-tam and Alvin Lucier’s Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra (1988) for amplified triangle. These two pieces awaken the listener to the timbral possibilities that exist in a single percussion instrument. Like these seminal works, Resonance Alloy seeks to create immensely complex and beautiful masses of sound through simple actions.”

ABOUT KEERIL MAKAN

Makan’s music has been described as “memorably explosive” (International Herald Tribune), “a fascinating wedding of intellect and expressivity” (Newsday), and “hard-driving and visceral, but not without moments of quiet, beautiful repose” (Andante.com). A Professor of Composition at MIT, he received his PhD in composition at the University of California, Berkeley. Recipient of the 2008 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, Makan has also received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fromm Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, and Meet the Composer. Ensembles championing Makan’s music include the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Kronos Quartet, Paul Dresher Ensemble, Newspeak, Continuum, and the New Juilliard Ensemble.

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released August 23, 2011

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