(re)creation, by escapeVelocity

(re)creation

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1.	Jessica Mays: Le chaos avant la création 02:36	buy track
2.	Zeynep Toraman: Prelude (to a quasi-failed ballet rehearsal) 03:15	buy track
3.	Julie Zhu: flora & fauna 02:56	buy track
4.	inti figgis-vizueta: earthmaker 04:16	buy track
5.	Linda Leimane: Desire 03:01	buy track
6.	Darian Donovan Thomas: Spring/Appeasement. 03:24	buy track

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“(re)creation” originated as a collaborative project with the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (Florida) in the fall of 2019. Conceived as a concert program to be presented alongside the Museum’s exhibition “Art of the Stage: Picasso to Hockney” – featuring works by major artists who also designed for the stage – the performance, scheduled for March 20, 2020, was canceled due to the Covid-19 crisis.

In sculpting this program, we were intrigued by the sets and costumes – featured in the Museum’s collection – created by the French cubist artist Fernand Léger for the ballet “La création du monde,” scored by Darius Milhaud. Originally, we intended to commission six composers to re-imagine elements of Milhaud’s score. But as we spoke with the composers and began to see their pieces take shape, we realized that the central theme was not about re-imagining Milhaud, but about re-creation in a much broader sense.

These works interrogate tradition. They engage new possibilities within sound, texture, and performance practice. They take inspiration from the natural world, from myth, from ballet. They showcase virtuosity in many forms. They explore broad, elemental themes and feelings – chaos, desire, the formation of matter and life – with sonic and formal specificity.

Of course, we didn’t know in March 2020 that ultimately, two years later, we would be bringing these pieces into a world that itself had been re-created in a multitude of ways. Though all completed before the pandemic, these six works offer six distinct perspectives on creation, re-creation, and the blurred terrain in between.

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released April 1, 2022

escapeVelocity
Giancarlo Latta, violin
Robert Fleitz, piano

recorded May 2021 at Skillman Music (Brooklyn, NY)
mastered by Ehren L. Valmé
cover art by Julie Zhu
cover design by Giancarlo Latta

Special thanks to Margaret Murray and the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (FL) for assistance in the commissioning of these works. Additional thanks to Claire Chase, Susan Dadian and Chamber Music America, Benoit Glazer and the Timucua Arts Foundation, and Andrew Cyr and the Metropolis Ensemble. Finally, our deepest gratitude to the six composers who contributed so generously and thoughtfully to this project.

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