Special offer. Cage: Two3 for shō and conches
Stefan Hussong (accordion, conch shells) & Wu Wei (sheng, conch shells)
this new version is a logical adaptation of the original score … I doubt very much that Cage would have objected to the rethink … Sheng and accordion form a hybrid identity, the combined shadows...
Special offer. Cage: Two3 for shō and conches
Stefan Hussong (accordion, conch shells) & Wu Wei (sheng, conch shells)
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this new version is a logical adaptation of the original score … I doubt very much that Cage would have objected to the rethink … Sheng and accordion form a hybrid identity, the combined shadows...
About
In 1990 John Cage met sho player Mayumi Miyata, who requested he write a piece for the ancient Japanese mouth organ. Cage was deeply impressed by the sound of this instrument and in 1991 he wrote 'Two3' for sho and five water-filled conch shells – one of the so-called 'Number' pieces Cage worked on during the last years of his life. Although the sound of the piece's structure remains a mystery to rational thinking, it is directly accessible to sensory awareness – especially in the interpretation here, played by accordion player Stefan Hussong and sheng virtuoso Wu Wei.
Contents and tracklist
- Stefan Hussong, Wu Wei
Nos. 4 and 7
Track length12:59
This track is only available as an album download.
No. 2
Track length12:53
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Nos. 1 and 6
Track length11:53
This track is only available as an album download.
No. 8
Track length10:22
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No. 3
Track length14:46
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Nos. 3 and 9
Track length14:21
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No. 9
Track length13:47
This track is only available as an album download.
Nos. 5 and 10
Track length10:43
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Awards and reviews
October 2015
this new version is a logical adaptation of the original score … I doubt very much that Cage would have objected to the rethink … Sheng and accordion form a hybrid identity, the combined shadows of their overtone series creating a completely gorgeous ozone layer of ebbing and drifting harmonic vibrations.
30th July 2015
It was originally for water-filled conch shells and an ancient Japanese mouth organ called the sho, but Wu Wei and Stefan Hussong have gone a little off script here: Wei substitutes the sho for an even older Chinese mouth organ called the sheng, while Hussong adds accordion to his conch shells...There are tiny storms of tension and release, but the Zen acceptance that underpins Cage’s late works is what really lingers.
18th July 2015
It’s music of air and water, ethereal an evanescent, but by no means background muzak.
