

At this point, you are practically salivating at the mouth in anticipation to finally use your brand new guitar. You flick on the lights and load up your favorite DAW. As you get in the house, you jet up the staircase and into your man-cave. You quickly complete the transaction and floor it on your way home. As you drool over the shine from the guitar you think of all the magic you will create when you return home. Walking into the store with extra cash from your last paycheck and slamming the money on the counter demanding the clerk lead you to a brand new electric guitar.

Imagine visiting your favorite music store in the latest shopping mall. I couldn’t get my song to sound quite like the melody I heard in my head. My mind would create beautiful leads, riffs and harmonies but when it came time to translate that thought into a real song, it seemed like I was the biggest dunce in the world. I used to have the same problem when I was gaining experience as a music producer. Producer for Sound American: Nate Wooley Design and cover photography by Federico Peñalva.Сайт производителя:Продолжительность:11h8mĭo you love writing songs and get stuck completing your melody?
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Harmonielehre and Torrent were recorded on September 8th, 2016. Pendulum VII was recorded on June 14th, 2016. Producer: Alex Mincek Recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, NY Recording Engineer: Ryan Streber Assistant Engineer: Michael Quick Piano Technician: Dan Jessie Edited by Hansdale Hsu and Ryan Streber Mixed and Mastered by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio Yarn / Wire & Mivos Quartet Laura Barger: Piano / Ning Yu: Piano / Ian Antonio: Percussion Russell Greenberg: Percussion / Olivia De Prato: Violin / Josh Modney: Violin Victor Lowrie: Viola / Mariel Roberts: Cello / Eric Wubbels: Conductor Torrent - 17:50 (2016) - for string quartet, 2 pianos and 2 percussion Josh Modney: Violin / Eric Wubbels: Pianoĩ. Selected movements from Harmonielehre (2013-ongoing.) - for violin and piano Wet Ink Large Ensemble: Michael Ibrahim: Saxophone solo / Erin Lesser: Flute / Laura Weiner: Horn Gareth Flowers: Trumpet / Weston Olencki: Trombone / Ian Antonio: Percussion Laura Barger: Piano / Josh Modney: Violin 1 / Marina Kifferstein: Violin 2 Carrie Frey: Viola / John Popham: Cello / Greg Chudzik: Bass / Eric Wubbels: Conductor

Pneuma - 13:22 (2015) - for tenor saxophone and large ensemble Envelopes - 3:55 Josh Modney: Violin / Eric Wubbels: Pianoĥ. Chorale II: Head against wall (For Petr Kotik) - 4:06Ĥ.

(2013-16 and ongoing.) - for violin and pianoģ. Wet Ink Large Ensemble: Erin Lesser: Flute 1 / Laura Cocks: Flute 2 / Alex Mincek: Saxophone Ian Antonio: Percussion / Ron Stabinsky: Piano / Josh Modney: Violin Carrie Frey: Viola / John Popham: Cello / Greg Chudzik: Bass Eric Wubbels: Conductor Pendulum VII - 11:16 (2010/11) - for alto saxophone and ensemble The disc comes in a beautiful hardcover book-like case along with 28 pages of notes including the composer’s conversation with Sound American Editor and experimental trumpeter Nate Wooley and in-depth interviews with musicians working closely with Mincek, including Ian Antonio, Eric Wubbels, and Josh Modney.ġ. Torrent is being released as a deluxe art object meant to give the listener a multivalent overview of Mincek’s history, aesthetic, and impact on the contemporary music world. Alex Mincek is hyper-aware of his surroundings while actively developing (and refining) his own voice. This approach is clear from the music on Torrent – from the knotty push and pull of the Stravinskyesque Pneuma to the epic slow growth of the title track, which harkens to the quiet turbulence of Klaus Lang. As the composer told SA editor Nate Wooley in their interview for this release, he wants to enter in a “conversation” with the composers that he studies, a virtual give and take of ideas as opposed to rote learning. Mincek does all this without becoming banal or derivative.
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Torrent is the first recording of Mincek’s music since his 2011 self-titled debut on Carrier Records and launches Sound American’s Young Composer Portrait (YCP) series, which introduces emerging artists by releasing music from the span of their career alongside a series of interviews and essays that contextualize the ways in which their history, aesthetic, and sound thinking have informed their work to date.Īlthough he has gained acclaim for his early work with the post-rock group Zs, Alex Mincek is receiving long overdue attention for his chamber music – an iconoclastic combination of timbral rigor with frightening rhythmic drive and mastery of melody.
