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NOCTURNES CONTEMPORAINS **** – L. Navok: Urban Nocturnes (15 Night Episodes); Lior Navok, piano; 1 CD NLM 885767538399; 1/11 (63’13) “The night, metropolis, fog, drizzle, empty streets… the last streetcars head back to their warm shelter. The sound of a distant construction work echoes through the quiet avenue. Clocks reach the small hours – these belong to the night people.” C’est ainsi que le compositeur Lior Navok décrit cette nouvelle oeuvre qu’il présente lui-même en tant que pianiste. Emanant du sentiment de solitude que l’individu peut éprouver dans une grande ville, l’œuvre est un film noir musical. Ce qui frappe d’emblée, c’est la puissance percussive du piano, enregistré de très près et résonnant sous les doigts et mains de Lior Navok comme un ensemble d’instruments plutôt que comme un seul piano. Tout, dans ce programme de nocturnes contemporains est atmosphère et exalte l’émotion, déshabille les ombres, alternant sérénité et frissons, écorchant le cœur dans des explosions sévères, consolant l’âme par des senteurs enveloppantes. Rarement le piano n’aura été si multiple pour décrire les secrets de la nuit. RéF |
About Creating a LIVE music Film Score
Butterfly Effect Ensemble works these days on a new and exciting project. The Ensemble will play a live-composition music score to the 1922 silent film Nosferatu. The common modern manner of composing music for the film, is to create a sound track which is then synced into the film. But with Live-Composition, where the score is created on the spot, one can only rely on certain milestones, scenes and events that occur along the film. Performance schedule is coming soon!
The Natives Are Restless
Including: Order CD
Premiere Recording
Butterfly Effect Ensemble.
13 Tracks of Live-Composition.
Stephen Horenstein, Woodwinds
Jeffery Kowalsky, Percussion
Lior Navok, Piano
Butterfly Effect Ensemble
Live-Composition
Stephen Horenstein, Woodwinds
Jeffery Kowalsky, Percussion
Lior Navok, Piano
Butterfly Effect is a cutting-edge ensemble creating dreamlike episodes with live performance, sound and visual imaging. This rare meeting of three veteran Israel musical creators, along with guest visual artists, results in an experience touching the subliminal, unexpected and surreal. The group’s hallmark is an inner communication built from years of collaborative composition. The ensemble’s sound is built from extremes: from extremely spacious and meditative spaces, to dense, primitive primal screams. Real-time composition creates an on-stage “drama” of discovery-three musicians taking a chance in real time, building miniature “worlds”, one by one, like islands in an archipelago, or pictures in a gallery. Each piece has its own unique feeling, tone and message. The overall effect is a sublime acoustic and visual experience, a blend of the ancient and modern.
The large array of instruments include: percussion (water gongs, vibraphone, amplified cymbals, roto toms, heat sink, Thailand nipple gongs, Indian chinta, roto toms, wood saws, bass drum, etc.); woodwinds (bass flute, alto flute, bass clarinet, soprano and baritone saxophones, Chinese flutes, bamboo saxophones, Tibetan double reed instruments, Irish flute, various ethnic double reed instruments)); and keyboards (grand piano with array of sticks and beaters, prepared piano).
From the Debut CD THE NATIVES ARE RESTLESS:
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