for a•pe•ri•od•ic featuring works by Michael Pisaro, Nomi Epstein, Billie Howard, and Kenn Kumpf.
As the album title suggests, all of the pieces on this recording were written specifically for a•pe•ri•od•ic. The first came in 2013 when Michael Pisaro, a friend, collaborator, and supporter of the ensemble wrote us festhalten/loslassen for a concert we played together, and continued in the following years with a•pe•ri•od•ic members Billie Howard, Kenn Kumpf, and Nomi Epstein writing new pieces for the group.
Each of the works navigate the relationship of solo to group, or individual to collective in their own unique manner. These indeterminate text scores required us to discuss and assign certain roles within the group during rehearsal, while other decisions were made individually while performing. In some cases, it was necessary to devise written structures based on the directives in the scores, and to experiment with each of them multiple times.
released in 2019
more or less featuring three works by Jürg Frey.
“This project began back in 2011, when I met with Jürg Frey in his hometown of Aarau, Switzerland to play for him a live-concert recording of More or less normal from a past a.pe.ri.od.ic concert, and to discuss the ensemble's plan to put out a CD of his works. Over the next year, three compositions- More or less normal, 60 Pieces of Sound, and Canones incerti - were chosen as pieces which best fit a.pe.ri.od.ic's size and instrumentation. Each of these three works creates a space where care and concern for the quality, weight and presence of a sound event dominates. The music captures a unique and unusual blend of beauty, sensitivity, and uncertainty both in performance and listening practices." - Nomi Epstein, Director of a.pe.ri.od.ic
released in 2014