Leap of Faith Orchestra & Sub-Units
At Third Life Studios
Power Series Expansions
Liner Notes by PEK
The fourth performance at Third Life Studios for this part of the overall Evil Clown project. A smaller orchestra, this time 10 players, perform a pure improvisation of 50 minutes duration. To open the show, we play 4 shorter (15 minute) trios/quartets by different Sub-Units…
We get two critical kinds of prep for the full orchestra performances of PEK scores: Concise improvisations by sometimes unique small cross sections of players from the roster and pure improvisations by the largest versions of Leap of Faith to perform without a score directing the development of the work. The only direction is for each player to lay out for about 1/3 of the total duration on the full length set…
Power Series Expansions:
Leap of Faith Orchestra & Sub-Units
Third Life Studios, Somerville MA – 28 October 2017
Disc 1:
1) Sub Unit 1: Interval |X| – 15:28
2) Sub Unit 2: Term by Term – 15:20
3) Sub Unit 3: Partial Sums – 15:10
4) Sub Unit 4: Radii of Convergence – 15:18
Disc 2:
5) Orchestra: Divergence to Infinity – 51:27
PEK (1,4,5) – clarinet, piccolo & contraalto clarinets, tenor & bass saxophones, tarota, contrabassoon, guanzi, metal, wood, crank siren, sheng, aquasonic, folk whistle, cymbells, crotales, melodica, fog horn, glockenspiel, hand chimes, crank siren, voice
Glynis Lomon (5) – cello, aquasonic, voice
Yuri Zbitnov (1,4,5) – drums, percussion, metal, wood, cymbells, crotales, glockenspiel, daiko, hand chimes. voice
Dan O’Brien (2,5) – tenor sax, clarinet & bass clarinet, flute
Bob Moores (3,5) – trumpet, wood flute, hand chimes, wood, metal, percussion
Kat Dobbins (4,5) – trombone
Reverend Grant Beale (2,3,5) – guitar, metal, wood
Eric Zinman (4,5) – piano, metal
Silvain Castellano (3,5) – bass
Kevin Dacey (1,2,5) – drums, percussion, metal, wood, cymbells, crotales, glockenspiel, hand chimes
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