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Jordan Dykstra - Koen Nutters: In Better Shape Than You Found Me
ByFor many listeners, perhaps the most important information about the piece is that its one-hour running time does not mean it becomes an ordeal or a survival course. Instead, it contains enough variety and detail to sound fresh and vibrant throughout. While there are soundsof instruments and other thingswhich recur, that never becomes wearying, as they give a structure to the composition. Alongside frequent interjections from piano, one of the key elements that is repeated is a field recording of birds. Dykstra reports that he made the recording of night birds singing in Brooklyn; he found that because of the lack of cars or loud transport on the roads during lockdown, native animals were singing again and could be heard better. Yes, as this album demonstrates, every cloud has a silver lining...
Dykstra and Koens were so pleased with this jointly-composed piece that they retro-composed a score of it so that it could be performed as heard on this album. In August 2021, a quartet version of it was performed at KM28 in Berlin by Dykstra, Manuel Lima, Lucy Railton and Hannes Lingens, with performances in other cities being discussed. Yes, we have not heard the last of "In Better Shape Than You Found Me." This one looks set to run and run...
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In Better Shape Than You Found Me.
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Jordan Dykstra: viola, pitch pipe, crotales, piano eBow, electronic programming, field recordings; Koen Nutters: piano programming, field recordings.
Album information
Title: In Better Shape Than You Found Me | Year Released: 2021 | Record Label: Elsewhere
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