<541> Vol.3
It has been said that complex times call for complex music. Here is that music. Tempered by the fact that the New Complexity movement (of Ferneyhough and Carter fame) is now several decades old and life in the pleasant surroundings of Stanford, California, can’t be that disturbing. Here, young composition grads apply their fierce minds and scurrying intellects to the problems of chamber music. They present it in a series known simply as 541.
This third collection of provocative hits from that series features six colorful new works inspired by such things as memory structures, psychosis (mild, severe, and chronic), claustrophobia, the motions of smoke, and the writings of Italo Calvino, Thomas Bernhard, and Julio Machado.
The international coterie of composers is outstandingly well served by the virtuosic talents of inauthentica, an ensemble that takes pages full of dense black notes in its stride.
