Scott Fields Ensemble
Sand
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Sand is a Fields composition for 20 instrumentalists, three singers, and conductor. It combines three areas in which he has often worked: modularity, manipulation of text, and integration of composition and improvisation.
Like Fields’ previous modular works, Sand is constructed of units whose interrelationships vary from weak to strong. In performance a conductor spontaneously selects, combines, sequences, and layers modules. Sand also includes improvisational elements within structures and “organic cues,” in which characteristics of a musician’s natural performance, such as the duration of a single slow stroke of a bow or a single breath determines the timing of cues to other instrumentalists.
Sand, as with Fields’ most recent modular works, is constructed of a small number of melodies, phasing patterns, long tones, and organic cue sets that are fragmented according to a simple mathematical formula. The lyrics for the singers consist of short stories that Fields has written. Like the instrumental parts, the lyrics are fragmented into modules.
Format
violin — Axel Lindner
violin — Carolin Pook
viola — Annegret Mayer-Lindenberg
cello — Katharina Hoffmann
cello — Scott Roller
contrabass — Jonas Gerigk
contrabass — Miles Perkin
electric guitar — Tal Botvinik
electric guitar — Sergio Sorrentino
electric guitar — David Stackenäs
flute — Daniel Agi
flute — Norbert Rodenkirchen
clarinet — Frank Gratkowski
alto saxophone — Salim Javaid
tenor saxophone — Matthias Schubert
trumpet — Udo Moll
trombone — Matthias Muche
tuba — Melvyn Poore
percussion — Shiau-Shiuan Hung
percussion — Arturo Portugal
voice — Tamara Lukasheva
voice — Hanna Schörken
voice — Sophie Tassignon
conductor — Scott Fields
Recorded live at the Alte Feuerwache, Cologne, Germany, 20 February 2022.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Reinhard Kobialka of Topaz Studios.
Cover photo: Reuben Radding
Release notes
Sand is modular. Each of the nine tracks on this CD is a complete version of the composition. Recorded live at the Alte Feuerwache, Cologne, Germany, February 20, 2022. Mixed and mastered by [...] of Topaz Studios. Funding was provided by Kunststiftung NRW and the Nordrhein-Westfalen Auf Geht’s program. Thank you to Csaba Kézér from Kunststiftung NRW, to ON–Neue Musik Köln, to Reinhard Kobialka from Topaz Studios, to Elliott Sharp for post-production advice and support, and to Kevin Reilly…
| 1 | Sand | 5:45 | |
| 2 | Sand | 4:16 | |
| 3 | Sand | 8:56 | |
| 4 | Sand | 7:49 | |
| 5 | Sand | 9:59 | |
| 6 | Sand | 14:00 | |
| 7 | Sand | 2:50 | |
| 8 | Sand | 12:40 | |
| 9 | Sand | 5:40 |
- Salim Javaid
- Alto Saxophone
- Katharina Hoffmann
- Cello
- Scott Roller
- Cello
- Frank Gratkowski
- Clarinet
- Scott Fields
- Conductor
- Jonas Gerigk
- Contrabass
- Miles Perkin
- Contrabass
- David Stackenäs
- Electric Guitar
- Sergio Sorrentino
- Electric Guitar
- Tal Botvinik
- Electric Guitar
- Daniel Agi
- Flute
- Norbert Rodenkirchen
- Flute
- Arturo Portugal
- Percussion
- Shiau-Shiuan Hung
- Percussion
- Reuben Radding
- Photography By [Cover Photo]
- Reinhard Kobialka
- Recorded By, Mixed By, Mastered By
- Matthias Schubert
- Tenor Saxophone
- Matthias Muche
- Trombone
- Udo Moll
- Trumpet
- Melvyn Poore
- Tuba
- Annegret Mayer-Lindenberg
- Viola
- Axel Lindner
- Violin
- Carolin Pook
- Violin
- Hanna Schörken
- Voice
- Sophie Tassignon
- Voice
- Tamara Lukasheva
- Voice
