Speed of Sound

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Release Date: 23rd Aug 2019
Catalogue No: INNOVA025
Label: Innova
Length: 62 minutes

Shatin: Khamsa

Work length6:25

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UVA Percussion Ensemble
I-Jen Fang

Sophia Shen: Rite of the Elves

Work length4:32

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UVA Percussion Ensemble
I-Jen Fang

Kristina Warren: Choose

Work length9:04

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UVA Percussion Ensemble
I-Jen Fang

Mark Panetti: To Live To Be Free

Work length9:10

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UVA Percussion Ensemble
I-Jen Fang

Kevin Davis: Two PFR-3 Poems by Jackson Mac Low

Work length11:38

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Kevin Davis (electronics)
UVA Percussion Ensemble
I-Jen Fang

2 PFR-3 Poems by Jackson Mac Low: No. 1, From "From 'David'"

Track length4:39

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2 PFR-3 Poems by Jackson Mac Low: No. 2, From "From 'The'"

Track length6:59

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Bellona: #Ferguson

Work length5:18

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I-Jen Fang

Maxwell Tfirn: Gentle Rain on Delicate Wings

Work length7:24

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UVA Percussion Ensemble
I-Jen Fang

Burtner: Speed of Sound In An Ice Rain

Work length9:27

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UVA Percussion Ensemble
I-Jen Fang

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Speed of Sound celebrates both the Centennial of the McIntire Department of Music at the University of Virginia and the Bicentennial of the entire institution. I-Jen Fang, the Director of the UVA Percussion Ensemble, curated this album, showcasing UVA composers and performers. These include faculty, as well as alumni, graduate and undergraduate students, with all of the music created between 2014 and 2017. The program opens with Judith Shatin’s inventive Khamsa, which means ‘5’ in Arabic and is a symbol of protection shared by all three Abrahamic religions. Next is Rite of the Elves, by Sophia Shen. Its highly rhythmic character is sometimes disrupted, conveying an exciting sense of disorientation. Then come To Live To Be Free by Mark Panetti, inspired by the Canadian rock group Rush and #Ferguson by Jon Bellona, based on live tweets surrounding the terrible shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO on August 9, 2014; Gentle Rain on Delicate Wings by Maxwell Tfirn offers a beautiful contrast, with the music inspired by a gentle storm and the image of a butterfly trying to fly through rain. The remaining pieces are guided improvisations. Choose, by Kristina Warren, commissioned and premiered by So Percussion, employs graphic, color-based notation. Two PFR-3 Poems by Jackson Mac Low, by Kevin Davis, is based on some of the earliest computer-generated poetry. Lastly, Speed of Sound in An Ice Rain, by Alaskan-born composer Matthew Burtner, is for pitched percussion with a field recording of an ice rain crackling on the leaves of a magnolia tree. All of this music resulted from extensive collaboration between the composers and performers, fusing their efforts in this propulsive, richly-textured, exploratory, and colorful album.

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