Sō Percussion and Bergamot Quartet play Jason Treuting's "Oblique Music for Four Plus (blank)"

Описание: Engineered by Matt Poirier and Scoops Dardaris.
Edited, mixed, and mastered by Matt Poirier.
Bergamot Quartet:
Ledah Finck, violin
Sarah Thomas, violin
Amy Huimei Tan, viola
Irène Han, cello

Jason writes:

Oblique Music for Four Plus (blank) was originally commissioned as a concerto for Sō and string orchestra by the League of Composers Orchestra. I don’t have a strong relationship with the concerto. I have played a couple and never imagined writing one. I never fell in love with the ideal of the heroic soloist or soloists pitted against the orchestra and, until now, I never figured out an alternative relationship that struck my fancy. But in the end, a concerto is just music for two groups to play together. In this case, it is music for four plus (blank). I am happy that this version is music for four plus (four) and that the (four) is the Bergamot Quartet!

In Oblique Music for Four Plus (blank), I picture the two groups as partners. Sometimes they act together as one big group and sometimes they act independently in support of each other. Within the groups are smaller groups: the percussionists are paired up as units and the string quartet find teams in moments too. Between the groups are pairs as well: each percussionist is teamed with a string player: a percussionist with violin 1, a percussionist with violin 2, etc.

In the three connected sections that make up this oblique music, I have tried to play on these connections. In some way, the piece comes as much from abstract social politics as from abstract sound conceptions, though I find both interesting.

The title is a soft nod to Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, which have gotten many musicians around a dead end. Thank you Mr. Eno! - Jason Treuting

Bergamot Quartet
Sō Percussion - vibraphones, pipes, crotales, loose glockenspiel bars, marimbas, paper and other white noise, kick drums, tom toms, bongos, hi hats, wood slats, and miscellaneous junk metal



Oblique Music for Four Plus (blank) was commissioned by the League of Composers Orchestra.
Treuting’s Oblique Music for Four Plus (blank) exists in two forms: a concerto with string orchestra and an octet with string quartet. Like Steve Reich in his quartet Different Trains, Jason asks the string players to think at times like a percussionist, playing complex rhythmic cycles in unison. The Bergamot Quartet have become frequent Sō collaborators, joining us for both Angélica’s and Jason’s pieces in this collection.