Lejaren Hiller - A Total Matrix of Possibilities - New World: NW80694 - CD or download

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Release Date: 8th Dec 2008
Catalogue No: NW80694
Label: New World
Length: 68 minutes

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Hiller, L: Computer Cantata

Work length23:02

$5.00

$7.00

Helen Hamm
University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players, Gregg Smith Singers
Jack McKenzie

Prolog To Strophe I; Strophe I

Track length6:36

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$1.40

Prolog To Strophe II; Strophe II

Track length2:08

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$1.40

Prolog To Strophe III; Strophe III; Epilogue To Strophe III

Track length5:44

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$1.40

Strophe IV; Epilogue To Strophe IV

Track length3:18

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$1.40

Strophe V; Epilogue To Strophe V

Track length5:16

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$1.40

Hiller, L: Quartet No. 6 for Strings

Work length23:55

$4.00

$5.60

Mark Sokol, Andrew Jennings, John Kochanowski, Norman Fischer
Concord String Quartet, Gregg Smith Singers

Arrabiato

Track length6:06

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$1.40

Tranquillo

Track length8:33

$1.50

$2.10

Vivace

Track length9:16

$1.50

$2.10

Hiller, L: A Portfolio for Diverse Performers and Tape

Work length21:50

Album only

Gregg Smith Singers, University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players
Gregg Smith

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Lejaren Hiller (1924–1994) was a musically eclectic composer, often combining several different types of techniques in the same piece. In the mid-sixties, he asserted that his “ objective in composing music by means of computer programming is not the immediate realization of an aesthetic unity, but the providing and evaluating of techniques whereby this goal can eventually be realized.” In this sense Hiller was a forward-looking composer, in that each piece was an experiment that lead toward the next piece. The three works contained in this collection—Computer Cantata (1963), Quartet No. 6 for Strings (1973), A Portfolio for Diverse Performers and Tape (1974)—demonstrate his love of musical diversity and eclecticism. These works also exhibit other trends that are common in Hiller’s music, including collaboration, an interest in microtonality, symmetrical and arch forms, and indeterminate instrumentation. The works span a little more than a decade, from 1963 to 1974, which were amongst his greatest years as a composer. The works also use a variety of instrumentations, from purely acoustic to electronic, and computer music with live ensemble. These three works are drawn from the CRI LP back catalog and will be making their first appearance on CD. Virtually none of Hiller’s music is currently available on disc and this reissue restores some of his most representative works to circulation.

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