Marcel Zaes — Parallel Prints (MP3)
Tracklisting
1. Parallel Prints #1: Nineteen Rhythm Fragments for Grand Piano (42:28)
2-20. Parallel Prints #2: Nineteen Rhythm Fragments for Drum Pads, Synthesizer, Grand Piano, and Crotales (34:24)
Format 320kbs MP3
Catalog Number EVSFT004
Press Release (PDF)
About
With Parallel Prints — the fourth release in the Editions Verde series "Seeing the Forest in a Tree" — Marcel Zaes explores one conceptual idea through 38 iterations realized by the prolific and idiosyncratic new music group Yarn/Wire. The first 19 iterations (for grand piano played by 4 people) are combined in “Parallel Prints #1” while the rest (versions for piano, croatles, drum pads, and ARP 2500) are spread within 19 tracks in “Parallel Prints #2.” Zaes’ Parallel Prints provides the listener with a fascinating sonic terrain which is, no less, further highlighted by Yarn/Wire’s stellar performance over the 3 years spent rehearsing, recording, and algorithmically processing their sounds.
Artist Bio
Marcel Zaes (b. 1984 in Bern, Switzerland), is a performer-composer, artist, and artistic researcher. He holds an M.A. in Music & Media Arts from Bern University of the Arts, an M.A. in Music Composition from Zurich University of the Arts and has additionally completed composition studies with Alvin Curran in Rome and with Peter Ablinger in Berlin. In 2021, he received his Ph.D. from Brown University and in early 2022 he is starting the position of Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Technology at SUSTech School of Design in Shenzhen, China.
Yarn/Wire is a new music quartet dedicated to the promotion of creative, experimental new music in the US and abroad. Yarn/Wire achieves this by supporting composers and audiences through live performances, educational activities, and large-scale collaborative projects.
Credits
released January 7, 2022
Composed by Marcel Zaes
Performed by Yarn/Wire
Recorded at Oktaven Audio (2019), Brown University (2019), Girard College (2021), and coded in Frankfurt (2021)
Mixed and mastered by Jordan Dykstra
Artwork images generated from digital video shot across Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Indiana by Eli Backer
Design and layout by Jordan Dykstra
First printing by Atomic Disc in 2022
© Marcel Zaes (SUISA), 2022
℗ Editions Verde, 2022