Tullis Rennie

"As such, the music succeeds in maintaining a balance between cohesion and surprise, occasionally coming close to the jazz tradition, but always on its own terms. It gives the album a refreshingly unconventional approach, a counterpoint of ideas that consistently marches to the beat of a different drummer. " - Guy Peters

Third release in the MFR Contemporary Series. The Vonnegut Collective combines a recording of Thomas Adès's Piano Quintet (2000) - a dense, time-warping work requiring forty-eight hours of rehearsal - with a new commissioned piece by Tullis Rennie built around that process. Rennie's score interweaves rehearsal recordings and player interviews with improvised realisations of his own graphic score for the quintet, plus trumpet and electronics. Contemporary classical with embedded documentary.