{"product_id":"radiant-music-for-flute-and-electronics","title":"Radiant Music — for Flute and Electronics","description":"\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wisemusicclassical.com\/work\/34803\/Honest-Music--Nico-Muhly\/\" target=\"blank\"\u003eClick here to download the pre-recorded element (first link below the separator).\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease email \u003ca href=\"mailto:promotion@wisemusic.com\"\u003eWise Music\u003c\/a\u003e if you encounter problems downloading the audio file.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the page, the violin part for \u003ci\u003eHonest Music\u003c\/i\u003e looks something like Terry Riley's \u003ci\u003eIn C\u003c\/i\u003e, insofar as it's a collection of discrete, modular phrases to be recombined in “performance,” or in this case, by the electronic manipulation of the recording. But these aren't Riley's musical Lego blocks; most of these are long, expressive, idiomatic gestures, combining Nico's soaring English-choirboy diatonicism with Romantic, violinistic leaps and slides up and down the fingerboard. As these figures pile on top of each other, the close-miked, aberrant fiddle timbre comes to seem, as per the title of the piece, brutally candid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe other fragments, imitated in character by the sputtering harp and percussion of the accompaniment, sound more like scraps swept from a cutting-room floor somewhere - all false starts, warm-ups and afterbeats - and the glitchy, staticky noises in the background contribute to the sense of something rough, half-finished. The result is to suggest that all of \u003ci\u003eHonest Music\u003c\/i\u003e is an out-take, a rehearsal for another, wholly imaginary piece. But the gravity and authority of the harmonies (and the low drones) lend the makeshift nature of the piece an authentic drama in its own right: the sad beauty of things coming together and things falling apart.","brand":"St. Rose Music Publishing Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53494518284606,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/themusiciansclub.net\/en-ca\/products\/radiant-music-for-flute-and-electronics","provider":"The Musicians Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}