Liner Notes
Cat. No. NWCR867
Release Date: 2007-01-01
Patti Monson, flute
On this disc, Conspirare, Patti Monson reveals to us the astonishing flute world she has vividly created for our delight and edification. Each composition is a world unto itself, and each is made solely of the sounds of her flute (and piccolo, and alto flute).
In this wind-blown world the flute is all and sovereign—it creates melody, harmony, polyphony, and ambience; it produces pure tones, microtones, multiphonics, and percussion (pitched and unpitched); it is digitally processed and digitally delayed. Each and every sound is created from the inexhaustible resources of Patti Monson’s remarkable musical imagination and technical mastery. It is a music of the spheres from the simplest source resounding!
—Martin Bresnick
For centuries, composers have taken great joy in crafting works that include a second, third, or even fourth voice to be played, sung, spoken, or imagined by a solo instrumentalist in performance. To achieve this they have employed everything from implied counterpoint or harmony to multiphonics, extended vocal sounds, spoken text, or prerecorded parts. For my first solo CD I wanted to record works that reflect this fascination with a many-voiced solo line, and I have therefore subtitled this release “chamber music for solo flute.”
—Patti Monson
This title, originally issued on the CRI label, is now available for order from New World Records as an on-demand CD (CD-R). It can also be downloaded in MP3/320, FLAC and/or WAV format(s).
On this disc, Conspirare, Patti Monson reveals to us the astonishing flute world she has vividly created for our delight and edification. Each composition is a world unto itself, and each is made solely of the sounds of her flute (and piccolo, and alto flute).
In this wind-blown world the flute is all and sovereign—it creates melody, harmony, polyphony, and ambience; it produces pure tones, microtones, multiphonics, and percussion (pitched and unpitched); it is digitally processed and digitally delayed. Each and every sound is created from the inexhaustible resources of Patti Monson’s remarkable musical imagination and technical mastery. It is a music of the spheres from the simplest source resounding!
—Martin Bresnick
For centuries, composers have taken great joy in crafting works that include a second, third, or even fourth voice to be played, sung, spoken, or imagined by a solo instrumentalist in performance. To achieve this they have employed everything from implied counterpoint or harmony to multiphonics, extended vocal sounds, spoken text, or prerecorded parts. For my first solo CD I wanted to record works that reflect this fascination with a many-voiced solo line, and I have therefore subtitled this release “chamber music for solo flute.”
—Patti Monson
This title, originally issued on the CRI label, is now available for order from New World Records as an on-demand CD (CD-R). It can also be downloaded in MP3/320, FLAC and/or WAV format(s).
