Clockwise

This saxophonist has cited composers like Feldman and Xenakis as inspirations for some of the pieces on her album, but the tour through colors and dynamics that Ms. Webber produces with her group... — The New York Times, 12th December 2019 More…

Release Date: 22nd Feb 2019
Catalogue No: PI79
Label: PI Recordings

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Saxophonist/flutist Anna Webber’s ‘Clockwise’, is an homage to some of her favourite 20th Century composers as seen through the lens of their works for percussion.

For the project, Webber researched and analyzed various percussion compositions by Iannis Xenakis, Morton Feldman, Edgard Varese, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Milton Babbitt, and John Cage, isolating particular moments

that could be extracted and developed into new works. The music explores notions of density and indeterminacy, using timbre as an organizing principle.

Webber has been an active performer and bandleader on the New York scene for the last decade, playing with the likes of John Hollenbeck, Dave Douglas, Matt Mitchell, and Jen Shyu. Her own projects, which are clear expressions of her knotty compositional sense, have been hailed by The New York Times as “bracing, argumentative and engineered to show the range of the group members: fulminous, intense collective improvisation; rapid, chromatic steeplechases; research into long tones and textures.”

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The New York Times 12th December 2019

This saxophonist has cited composers like Feldman and Xenakis as inspirations for some of the pieces on her album, but the tour through colors and dynamics that Ms. Webber produces with her group sounds fresh.

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