"The Difference Engine carried Reynolds into the practice of marrying sound and science while sharing the culture of inquiry central to both disciplines." -- PopMatters
Austin, TX composer Graham Reynolds is streaming in full today the reissue of The Difference Engine: A Triple Concerto via PopMatters. Hear and share at PopMatters and Spotify.
The album is remastered for the first time ever on vinyl. This release on Austin label Sonic Surgery Records (a division of Super Secret Records) includes never-before-released remixes from The Octopus Project, Demián Gálvez, Adrian Quesada, Peter Stopchinski, DJ Spooky, and Orión Garcia. The Difference Engine is available on 2xLP and download from Sonic Surgery.
Called "the quintessential modern composer" by the London Independent, Austin-based composer-bandleader-improviser Graham Reynolds creates, performs, and records music for film, theater, dance, rock clubs, and concert halls, with a wide range of collaborators across a multitude of disciplines. He recently scored Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying with Steve CareII, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne for Amazon Studios, the Rude Mechs' Stop Hitting Yourself for Lincoln Center Theater, Ballet Austin's Belle Redux, and a multi-year commission from Ballroom Marfa, The Marfa Triptych. His Creative Capital Award winning project, Pancho Villa from a Safe Distance, is a bilingual cross-border opera created with librettists Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol (Mexico City) and director Shawn Sides (Rude Mechs). Amidst touring with this opera and other endeavors, Reynolds is currently at work on Golden Hornet's The Sound of Science as both curator and composer.
The Difference Engine was Reynolds' first foray connecting sound and science, celebrating the shared culture of inquiry in the art and science disciplines. Infusing a loose concerto format with the story of Charles Babbage and his invention "the difference engine," Reynolds' composing voice finds itself in a work that is intense and driving, beautiful and intimate, personally expressive and broadly accessible all at the same time. Developed over a course of years, the initial ideas for each movement were introduced and inspired separately before being woven into this one piece. The musical onslaught of the opening movement came to Reynolds during a lecture by LB Deyo on Babbage and his work, inspired by the ferocious pace of both Babbage's thinking and the calculating speed of his invention. Not fully realized in his lifetime, "the difference engine" was the masterwork of the 19th century inventor and mathematician - and attempt to create the world's first computer.
The completed concerto The Difference Engine premiered in 2010 as a 35-piece orchestral performance presented by Golden Hornet in Austin, TX. Soloists Leah Zeger on violin, Jonathan Dexter on cello, and the composer himself on piano fronted the debut, with parts written specifically for their skill set and personal voices. Those voices were then captured for the recordings originally released in 2011. Beyond the original triple concerto and remixes of each movement -- by DJ Spooky, Octopus Project, Grammy-award winning producer Adrian Quesada, Peter Stopschinski, and Reynolds himself -- the vinyl release includes two brand new remixes contributed by Orion Garcia (Peligrosa) and Demian Galvez (Centavrvs). Both artists are driving forces leading the charge on re-energizing the sounds of Latin America's past, present, and future. The newly re-mastered vinyl fosters an incredible listening experience, whether hearing The Difference Engine for the first time, or re-discovering with a fresh perspective.
Graham Reynolds - Piano
Leah Zeger - Violin
Jonathan Dexter - Cello
Artist: Graham Reynolds
Album: The Difference Engine
Record Label: Sonic Surgery Records
Release Date: September 21, 2018
The Concerto
01) Movement I: The Cogwheel Brain
02) Movement II: Ada
03) Movement Ill: Cam Stack & Crank Handle
04) Movement IV: Late at Night/ The Astronomer
05) Movement V: The Difference Engine
The Remixes
06) The Cogwheel Brain (Octopus Project remix)
07) Cam Stack & Crank Handle (Graham Reynolds remix)
08) The Difference Engine (Demian Galvez remix)
09) The Astronomer (Adrian Quesada remix)
10) The Difference Engine (Peter Stopschinski remix)
11) Ada (DJ Spooky remix)
12) Cam Stack & Crank Handle (Orion Garcia I Peligrosa remix)
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