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Mark GreyWorld Premiere of Mark Grey's "Sands of Time" for cello and live electronic processing performed by Joan Jeanrenaud at Other Minds 10, 2004 (March 5, 2004)

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World Premiere of Mark Grey's Sands of Time for cello and live electronic processing (2003) performed at Other Minds 10 at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2004

Joan Jeanrenaud, cello
Mark Grey, electronics

One of the most in-demand sound designers today, Grey is best known for his work with the Kronos Quartet, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley and most recently with John Adams in The Dharma at Big Sur for the October 2003 opening of Disney Hall in Los Angeles. Mark Grey is becoming increasingly respected as a composer in his own right. Inspired by the talents of cellist Joan Jeanrenaud when they both worked with Kronos, Sands of Time is the second piece Grey has written for her. Utilizing live cello, three pre-recorded celli, and signal processing, the piece is ultimately a journey through means of granular synthesis.

Mark Grey first met Joan Jeanrenaud, for whom he wrote this piece, when they worked with the Kronos Quartet in the late 1990s. He composed his first piece for her, Blood Red, in 2000. Greys compositions combine a solo acoustic instrument with live electronic effects and Sands of Time is an example of this genre. It was composed for one live cello, three pre-recorded celli and live digital signal processing. The work is a granular synthesis journey, as celli push their way through giant pulsing filters.


This audio is part of the collection: Other Minds Archive

Artist/Composer: Mark Grey
Date: 2004-03-05 00:00:00
Source: Other Minds
Label / Recorded by: Other Minds
Keywords: 20th Century Classical

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

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Reviewer: dour people at the side of the lake - - March 13, 2009
Subject: Review of "Sands of Time for cello and live electronic processing"
Enjoyable. Not too challenging. A sense of the orient.