{"product_id":"0093228084426-motor-tapes","title":"Sarah Hennies: Motor Tapes","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt feels like I'm composing a person. A vivid, rich picture of a life, of a brain. --Sarah Hennies. Sarah Hennies (b. 1979) is a composer and percussionist whose work is concerned with a variety of musical, sociopolitical, and psychological issues including queer \u0026amp; trans identity, psychoacoustics, and the social and neurological conditions underlying creative thought. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe booklet for this, her second New World recording, features an extensive and wide-ranging conversation with the composer, wherein Hennies discusses her compositional practice and how these three pieces--all in some way related to brain activity, specifically mood disorders and circadian rhythm--represent an important step in the evolutionof her work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These works do signal a transformation. Up until Clock Dies, for instance, every piece I had written involved a stopwatch. But Talea Ensemble wanted a work with a conductor, and so Clock Dies was the first piece I made where I thought, \"Let's see if I can make chamber music.\" So Clock Dies is through-composed; of course there's lots of repetition, there's a form with sections and climaxes--things happen. There's a more traditional kind of contrast in Clock Dies and really in all three of these pieces. But Clock Dies specifically was the first piece where I challenged myself in a practical way to see if I could make \"normal\" music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMotor Tapes is . well, it came about in a similarly practical way, where because of when the commission [from Ensemble Dedalus] came and where it was being played, I had a long time to make it. And I really, really wanted to challenge myself to make something with a lot of detail, to work harder on something than I had in the past. There's a Word-doc outline of Motor Tapes that's pages long because it got so complicated. And finishing the last 20% was so challenging; it had become so unwieldy that I had to make a to-do list of tasks because I couldn't view it as a totality anymore. And now that it's done and I can see it as a whole, there's a very clear order of events, a script, it follows a very birth-to-death trajectory .\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41692527820897,"sku":"0093228084426","price":22.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_12352074_964071.jpg?v=1716996015","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/0093228084426-motor-tapes","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}