John Cratchley
Nearly every Braxton recording seems to fall into the category of "landmark"...this is no exception, I think.
Everybody performs live, everybody samples...the iPod as creative instrument...fascinating.
Bob Ross
It is going to take some time to Grok all this! Compelling..I would love to be a fly on the wall for rehearsals (or maybe more precisely...training) of some of Mr. Braxton's systems. Perhaps no.377 just grabs me the most
Favorite track: Composition No. 377.
Carl Baugher
Focused, superlative performances of Mr. Braxton's forward-leaning conceptual compositions. Never less than fascinating.
Favorite track: Composition No. 373.
Pure Audio Blu-ray includes 2.0 Stereo LPCM and 5.1 Surround in DTS HD MA and LPCM formats. 4 panel digipack includes 24-page booklet with liner notes by composer Anthony Braxton and engineer Nick Lloyd.
Includes unlimited streaming of 3 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
8 panel digipack boxset with 20-page booklet including liner notes by composer Anthony Braxton detailing the Echo Echo Mirror House Music system
Includes unlimited streaming of 3 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 2 days
Purchasable with gift card
$30USD
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Digital Album
Streaming + Download
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Includes 20 page PDF booklet with EEMHM composition notes by AB.
3 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011 features the first studio recordings of Braxton’s Echo Echo Mirror House Music—the latest conceptual innovation in Braxton’s five-decade career. With his Ghost Trance Music, Braxton created a framework for his musicians to freely explore his entire compositional output in each concert; with his Diamond Curtain Wall music, he brought his own interactive electronics into his improvisational palette. Now with Echo Echo Mirror House Music, Anthony Braxton brings these ideas to the next level. In this ensemble of longtime collaborators, all the musicians wield iPods in addition to their instruments, while navigating scores that combine cartography and evocative graphic notation, creating a musical tapestry combining live performance and sampled sound from Braxton’s extensive recorded discography.
Impeccably recorded at Firehouse 12’s state-of-the-art studio, the music is available in two formats: a traditional three-CD box set and a 5.1 Surround Sound audiophile Blu-ray disc. “As a culture, we are slowly moving away from target linear experiences that are framed as stationary constructs that don’t change on repeated listening, to a new world that constantly serves up fresh opportunities and interactive discourse,” Braxton says. “American people have made it clear that the new times will call for dynamic inter-action experiences.”
credits
released April 1, 2016
Anthony Braxton: composer, sopranino, soprano and alto saxophones, iPod;
Taylor Ho Bynum: cornet, flugelhorn, trumpbone, iPod;
Mary Halvorson: guitar, iPod;
Jessica Pavone: violin, viola, iPod;
Jay Rozen: tuba, iPod;
Aaron Siegel: percussion, vibraphone, iPod;
Carl Testa: bass, bass clarinet, iPod
Recorded May 20th, 2011 at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, CT
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Nick Lloyd
Recording Assisted by Greg DiCrosta
Layout & Design by Yesim Tosuner
Produced by Anthony Braxton
Co-produced by Nick Lloyd
Firehouse 12 Records is the label arm of Firehouse 12, an award-winning bar, recording studio, and unusually intimate music
venue located in New Haven, CT. Co-founded in 2007 by Firehouse 12′s chief engineer Nick Lloyd and cornetist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum, Firehouse 12 Records was created to ambitiously document the creative ethos of some of improvised music's most innovative practitioners....more