Mark Takeshi McGregor - Starts and Stops
Music for flute & electronics
Mark Takeshi McGregor, flute, alto flute, piccolo
With Liam Hockley, clarinet (on track 2)
Flute and electronics is a particularly rich pairing, perhaps because it connects one of the oldest sounds (the flute has existed, in some form, in nearly every world culture for thousands of years) with some of the newest. These five works explore this combination in different ways: sometimes to highlight the disparity between human and machine, sometimes to transform the familiar into the alien, and sometimes to fuse the two worlds into something entirely new.
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released March 1, 2023
CREDITS
Producer / réalisateur: Mark Takeshi McGregor
Hōrai
Recording date / date d’enregistrement: 2021
Recording location / lieu d’enregistrement: Pyatt Hall, VSO School of Music
Recording engineer, editing / preneur de son, montage numérique: Piotr Wieczorek
Electronics mixing / mixage électronique: Keiko Devaux
Duo Augmented
Recording date / date d’enregistrement: 2016
Recording location / lieu d’enregistrement: ICICS, University of BC
Recording, mixing, editing / preneur de son, mixage, montage numérique: Yota Kobayashi
If This Is A Man
Recording date / date d’enregistrement: 2020
Recording location / lieu d’enregistrement: Mark’s bedroom
Recording engineer / preneur de son: Mark McGregor
Electronics mixing, editing / mixage électronique, montage numérique: Farshid Samandari
fantasiae
Recording date / date d’enregistrement: 2017
Recording location / lieu d’enregistrement: VSO School of Music
Recording, mixing, editing / preneur de son, mixage, montage numérique: Annette Brosin
The Starts and Stops
Recording date / date d’enregistrement: 2021
Recording location / lieu d’enregistrement: Pyatt Hall, VSO School of Music
Recording engineer, editing / Preneur de son, montage numérique: Piotr Wieczorek
Electronics mixing / mixage électronique: Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
Overall album mastering / gravure général d’album: Piotr Wieczorek
Cover artwork / œuvre de couverture: Pender Street Mushroom by/par Preston Buffalo
Graphic design / conception graphique: Benjamin Siegl
Special thanks / remerciement:
Giovanni Aniello, Annette Brosin, Preston Buffalo, Jennifer Butler, Canadian Music Centre BC Region, Keiko Devaux, Mark Haney, Dory Hayley, Liam Hockley, Rachel Iwaasa, Yota Kobayashi, Sean McGregor, Jocelyn Morlock & John Korsrud, Jordan Nobles & Redshift Music Society, David Pay and Music on Main, Walter Quan, Farshid Samandari, Alfredo Santa Ana, Ben Siegl, Adrian Verdejo, Piotr Wieczorek.
Starts and Stops is dedicated to Shizu Hayashi and Ronald Hunt.
These almost heartbreakingly gentle felted piano compositions have the delicacy and loveliness of slow-falling snow. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 30, 2023