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Side A
1. Raw (10:32)

Side B
1. Raw (19:24)

Anne la Berge - flute & electronics
Gareth Davis - bass clarinet
Dario Calderone - double bass
Reinier van Houdt - piano, keyboards & electronics
Wiekk Hijmans - electric guitar
Yannis Kyriakides - computer & electronics

Raw by Anne La Berge performed by Maze.

Recorded by Micha de Kanter in Splendor, Amsterdam.

Mixed by Anne La Berge & Micha de Kanter, Mideka Studio, The Hague.

Design - Isabelle Vigier

Unsounds 59LP

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released June 6, 2017

Unsounds is proud to present Anne La Berge’s new piece: RAW.
Originally from Stillwater, Minesota and based in Amsterdam, the
avant-flutist, improviser and composer has written an open-ended
work for ensemble and electronics made up of fragmented gestures
and shards of skeletal speech. Ensemble MAZE, of which Anne is a
founding member, is performing the piece which was recorded at live
at Splendor, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
“Play noise. Do not play at all. Play melodically.”
RAW embraces the unbridled opportunities that unforeseen com
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binations offer in the improvising process. It is a work that asks the
musicians to play unfinished musical material and to collectively cre
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ate a work in real time, as they are asked to make ongoing randomly
generated choices. For this new interactive work Anne La Berge has
written a Max patch allowing each player to influence the develop
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ment of the piece by sending a message to the patch at his or her
own discretion by means of a touch on a tablet screen. The patch
reacts in turn and ‘chooses’ the next combinations of players, the
types of music to play, combined with the playback of pre-recorded
text samples.
Without any one instrument taking the solo lead, Gareth Davis’s bass
clarinet deftly folds itself around jarringly loose piano notes from
Reinier van Houdt. Multi-layered electronics by Yannis Kyriakides di
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vide and conquer throughout ensemble MAZE with brooding double
bass by Dario Calderone, eerie electric guitar (Wiek Hijmans) and La
Berge herself on processed flute. The players follow commands and
take cues in an unending whirlwind of cause and effect.
RAW exudes auras of condensed, stretched, cut-up, pried open and
exalted sonic spaces. Pure and raw timbres collide with processed
materials, questioning the way in which the ear finds or loses famil
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iarity with musical idioms. And where musicality is to be found from
clouds of juxtaposed idiosyncratic sounds. The piece cuts through
worn musical habits and jettisons both audience and player back and
forth squarely and simultaneously to point zero & point
omega. To go even beyond that which music is, is where the fiery
spirited and elemental heart of RAW lies.

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