Nicholas Deyoe - with throbbing eyes
PR001
release date: Jan 17th 2012
available formats: compact disc // digital
Featuring the Formalist Quartet, Red Fish Blue Fish, Stephanie Aston, and Brendan Nguyen. Mastered by Tom Erbe.
Nicholas Deyoe’s debut album with throbbing eyes contains a collection of four chamber pieces composed between 2009 and 2011, each exploring the dominant themes in his recent music: noise, delicacy, fantasy, drama, and brutality, with an intent focus on the use of flexible intonation. The shimmering harmonics in the miniature images from a sleepless night were composed in response to the sonic possibilities introduced, but not explored in the large-scale …for every day is another view of the tentative past. The percussion quartet wir aber sind schon anders, based on a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, presents several sets of “mirrored” images, and treats the quartet as distorted reflections of each other. The “original” is elusive and, once found, has already changed. All of the pieces presented here were born from collaboration between friends. 5 McCallum Songs, composed for Deyoe’s wife Stephanie Aston, sets five poems from Clint McCallum’s epic set of Love Poems. The chosen texts, and the microtonally lyrical musical landscape explore issues of masculinity, insecurity, obsession, love, and regret. All together, these four pieces present different parts of a single image of Deyoe’s musical landscape.
release date: Jan 17th 2012
available formats: compact disc // digital
Featuring the Formalist Quartet, Red Fish Blue Fish, Stephanie Aston, and Brendan Nguyen. Mastered by Tom Erbe.
Nicholas Deyoe’s debut album with throbbing eyes contains a collection of four chamber pieces composed between 2009 and 2011, each exploring the dominant themes in his recent music: noise, delicacy, fantasy, drama, and brutality, with an intent focus on the use of flexible intonation. The shimmering harmonics in the miniature images from a sleepless night were composed in response to the sonic possibilities introduced, but not explored in the large-scale …for every day is another view of the tentative past. The percussion quartet wir aber sind schon anders, based on a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, presents several sets of “mirrored” images, and treats the quartet as distorted reflections of each other. The “original” is elusive and, once found, has already changed. All of the pieces presented here were born from collaboration between friends. 5 McCallum Songs, composed for Deyoe’s wife Stephanie Aston, sets five poems from Clint McCallum’s epic set of Love Poems. The chosen texts, and the microtonally lyrical musical landscape explore issues of masculinity, insecurity, obsession, love, and regret. All together, these four pieces present different parts of a single image of Deyoe’s musical landscape.