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Evan Ziporyn: Frog's Eye
by John Kelman
In its brief existence, Cantaloupe Music has become one of the most intrepid labels in new music, and clarinetist Evan Ziporyn, a member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, has emerged as one of its most powerful compositional voices. One test of an artist's worth is his or her ability to take influences and create a new voice by filtering them through a more personal lens, and Ziporyn's previous records for the label--This is Not a Clarinet (Cantaloupe, 2001) ...
read moreEvan Ziporyn: Typical Music
by John Kelman
Best-known for his association with genre-defying contemporary chamber group Bang on a Can, Evan Ziporyn as been gradually amassing a body of written work that is evidence of an equally boundary-averse compositional mind. ShadowBang (Cantaloupe, 2004) found him mixing diverse interests in Balinese gamelan and contemporary minimalists like Steve Reich and Terry Riley on a score for the stage performed with Bang on a Can. Typical Music distances Ziporyn (temporarily) from Bang on a Can on a live recording featuring ...
read moreEvan Ziporyn with I Wayan Wija: ShadowBang
by John Kelman
Like Bill Frisell's soundtracks to the films of Buster Keaton, the best scores can both enhance the visual experience and stand on their own as worthy pieces in their own right. Composer/reedman Evan Ziporyn, long interested in Balinese traditions including Gamelan music, collaborated to create the soundtrack to a theatre piece that combined aspects of Balinese traditional shadow puppetry, wayang , with more western stage design and music. The result, ShadowBang , distils the musical content of the performance, trimming ...
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