Tim Brady: Symphony in 18 Parts, by Tim Brady

Tim Brady: Symphony in 18 Parts

by Tim Brady

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1.	minor révolutions 03:22	buy track
2.	approximate silence 02:48	buy track
3.	effortless actions, just slightly imperfect 02:12	buy track
4.	balance 02:39	buy track
5.	travel light 03:23	buy track
6.	only the necessary equipment 02:42	buy track
7.	amplify 02:29	buy track
8.	inhale/exhale 01:52	buy track
9.	now, not later 03:52	buy track
10.	time as calculated intrusion 02:26	buy track
11.	sing and dance 02:12	buy track
12.	warmth 03:11	buy track
13.	expectation as controlled illusion 02:53	buy track
14.	assume an error in the source code 02:27	buy track
15.	lies beneath the surface 02:30	buy track
16.	noise: or who decides what and why 01:38	buy track
17.	more, or less, than the sum of the part 01:56	buy track
18.	fragmentary intentions 04:47	buy track

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“Wild waves of high-voltage emotion and power trade off with sections of intense intimacy”
– David Lang

This CD presents the premiere recording of Tim Brady’s Symphony in 18 Parts, for solo electric guitar. The composer/performer explores a wide range of sounds, from powerful, driving, rock-imbued sections to tenderly wistful, melodic lines; from screaming, edgy distortions and dense walls of noise to pulseless, mysterious sonics and haunting atmospherics.

Brady’s music has been praised as “haunting and explosive” by Gramophone, “highly recommended” by The Wire, and “exuberant” by the New York Times.

David Lang notes in the CD’s Introduction, “Most of what you encounter in this piece is the immense range of Brady’s imagination of what an electric guitar can do. Wild waves of high-voltage emotion and power trade off with sections of intense intimacy. Aggressively virtuosic tunes spin out around themselves with Zappa-like energy, while gentle, introspective moments rub shoulders with massive heavy metal walls of sound.”

As a guitarist, Brady has been described as “the leading proponent of gaining acceptance of the electric guitar in new music” (Downbeat), “technically staggering” (All About Jazz), and “a true mad scientist of guitar sound, placed on Earth, it seems, to smash the barriers between high and low culture” (Hour Weekly).

Lang explains how these 18 short movements for solo electric guitar are indeed symphony-like:

“Each movement has its own world, its own unique way of proceeding, but together they are kaleidoscopic. This is a piece that is designed to feel that it can hold everything within it. That sounds symphonically ambitious to me… The architecture, the ambition, the big ideas – it turns out they are all here.”

Brady uses the word “symphony” to reflect the large-scale structural and emotional arc of the work. “This is a symphony (the most traditional of European forms) written for solo electric guitar (the most North American of instruments).”

ABOUT TIM BRADY

Tim Brady is a Canadian composer, electric guitarist, improvising musician, and concert producer. Working in the field of contemporary classical music, experimental music, and musique actuelle, he composes in a variety of styles from serialism to minimalism. Using the guitar as orchestra, he creates music merging contemporary classical, jazz, rock, and electronics. Over several decades, Brady has performed at many major festivals and venues, including the Montreal International Jazz Festival, Festival Présence in Paris, The South Bank Centre in London, the Bang on a Can Marathon in New York, REDCAT in Los Angeles, and in 2010 he was the featured composer at the Winnipeg Symphony’s International New Music Festival. Brady has won the Prix Opus “Composer of the Year” prize, given by the Conseil québécois de la musique. In 2007 he received the Jan V. Matejcek award by SOCAN. His CD “Atacama: Symphony #3” was named “Création de l’année” for 2012 at the Prix Opus and was also nominated for a Juno in 2014.

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