{"id":62,"date":"2007-05-15T22:03:23","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T03:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/projects\/2007\/pillaging-music\/"},"modified":"2007-05-17T14:27:32","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T19:27:32","slug":"pillaging-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/projects\/2007\/pillaging-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Pillaging Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Muhly names Pierre Boulez as the inspiration for Pillaging Music<\/em>, and it’s easy to hear the influence of pieces like Sur-incises<\/em> and R\u00e9pons<\/em> on this metallic piano\/percussion texture, with its wild, electronic antiphony. But where Boulez’s music wears, self-consciously, the sheen of the new, Pillaging Music has been painstakingly distressed. The percussion is complemented by a battery of found instruments, household objects chosen to approximate the pitches of the other instruments without matching them exactly. And the tape component was edited (by the composer and Valgeir Sigur\u00f0sson) with an ear-popping ruthlessness. More obviously, where Boulez’s convulsive rhythms and atonal harmonies reject the familiar, inhabitable spaces of classical music”\u201d”He takes the gargoyles,”\u009d composer Ned Rorem complained after hearing R\u00e9pons<\/em>, “and leaves the cathedral”\u009d”\u201dMuhly is willfully humane, pushing the drama of his tonal language across the threshold of camp. The aggression is ritualised, mitigated by an excess of style. A hushed, reverent interlude demonstrates that Muhly could never leave the cathedral too far behind, before the instruments literally race”\u201dNancarrow-like”\u201dto the piece’s rhythmically virtuosic conclusion. – Notes \u00c2\u00a9 2007 by Daniel Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n

Pillaging Music<\/em> is recorded on Bedroom Community Hvalur 001<\/a> (Nico Muhly Speaks Volumes<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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\nSam Solomon<\/a>, percussion
\nNico Muhly, keyboards<\/p>\n

laugh-pillage.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

Nico & Sam during Pillaging Music<\/em> rehearsal, Zankel Hall, 2007 <\/small><\/p>\n

recording-pillaging.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

Sam recording Pillaging Music<\/em> in Brooklyn, 2006<\/small><\/p>\n

Nico & Valgeir, Pillaging Music, Rotterdam<\/a><\/p>\n

Nico & Valgeir playing Pillaging Music<\/em> in Rotterdam, April, 2007<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Muhly names Pierre Boulez as the inspiration for Pillaging Music, and it’s easy to hear the influence of pieces like Sur-incises and R\u00e9pons on this metallic piano\/percussion texture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,4,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}