Catherine Lamb: Aggregate Forms
JACK Quartet (performer), Christopher Otto (performer), Austin Wulliman (performer), John Pickford Richards (performer), Jay Campbell (performer)
Without doubt a test of concentration and endurance for the musicians, the works are more an exercise in yogic meditation than traditional rhythm and structure: the quartet play single tones,...
Catherine Lamb: Aggregate Forms
JACK Quartet (performer), Christopher Otto (performer), Austin Wulliman (performer), John Pickford Richards (performer), Jay Campbell (performer)
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Without doubt a test of concentration and endurance for the musicians, the works are more an exercise in yogic meditation than traditional rhythm and structure: the quartet play single tones,...
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"The radically mind-expanding challenges of Catherine Lamb's string quartets have given me great joy and satisfaction. Imagining and creating the sonic relations yields an integration of number and sound, offering a pathway toward ultimate oneness.
Opening ears and mind to infinitely rich patterns, these resonances penetrate deeply to the core.
The recording is not an endpoint, but part of a broadening process, a continuous evolution of abstract relationships becoming concrete, erasing artificial divisions between melody, harmony, and timbre, between body, mind, and spirit."
(Christopher Otto, JACK Quartet)
With her deft explorations of harmony via justly tuned intervals, Lamb's music lifts the veil of the world, letting us hear the plenitude that's just on the other side of our everyday hearing.
Contents and tracklist
- JACK Quartet, Christopher Otto, Austin Wulliman, John Pickford Richards, Jay Campbell
- Christopher Otto, JACK Quartet, Austin Wulliman, John Pickford Richards, Jay Campbell
Awards and reviews
May 2022
Without doubt a test of concentration and endurance for the musicians, the works are more an exercise in yogic meditation than traditional rhythm and structure: the quartet play single tones, which gradually oscillate in and out of perfect unison.
April 2022
The Jack Quartet, specialists in this idiom, play with precision and deep feeling, and the dry recording quality is microtones optimal.