Morphic Resonances is the third Meta/MOD Technologies
co-release of Adam Rudolph's music and the 23rd as a leader featuring his
compositions. It is also the final installment of Rudolph's trilogy of CDs
following on the heels of 2 other Meta/MOD Technologies co-releases: The Epic
Botanical Beat Suite (2015) by his electro-world percussion ensemble Hu:
Vibrational and Glare of the Tiger (2017) by his Moving Pictures Octet.
The three
releases sound very different from one another and Rudolph explains the trilogy
connection this way: "I drew upon the same intervallic and rhythmic
materials in creating the music for all three recordings. Using these materials
as kind of musical DNA allowed me to create this trilogy of CD releases. Each
sounds so different from the other because I used a different process to create
the music on each. I feel that when we generate our own creative processes,
then the music is bound to sound prototypical. It is what I call "organic
music" whereby the spirit and the feeling can project through the music
unencumbered by styles of the past. It sounds like itself."
Morphic
Resonances also reveals a new side of Rudolph's musical journey by putting the
spotlight on his through-composed music. Some of the pieces were commissioned
by the ensembles on this release, while others were written when Rudolph was
living in Copenhagen as a recipient of the prestigious D.I.V.A. award from the
Danish government. "I tried to project my inner voice and spirit as well
as my experiences as a hand drummer and improviser into the compositions. Being
an autodidact, it was interesting to use the "Western classical"
notational system to do that. I was fortunate to have outstanding musicians
from both the USA and Europe to bring this music to life."
TRACKS
Morphic
Resonances / Momenta String Quartet
13:18
Syntactic
Adventures / Momenta String Quartet
13:12
Garden,
Ashes / Kaoru Watanabe & Marco Cappelli
8:55
Strange
Thought / Sana Nagano 2:45
Orbits /
Odense Percussion Group 10:30
Coincidentia
Oppositorum / Figura / Kammeratorkestret Ensemble 3:59
Lamento /
Kaoru Watanabe & Marco Cappelli
3:50
TOUR DATES:
Monday,
October 2
University
of Massachusetts, Amherst
Adam Rudolph
with Hamid Drake and Ralph Jones
Tuesday,
October 3 and Wednesday, October 4
Jazz
Gallery, New York City
ADAM
RUDOLPH'S MOVING PICTURES
Thursday,
October 5
October
Revolution Festival (opening for Sun Ra Arkestra), Philadelphia
Adam Rudolph
with Hamid Drake and Ralph Jones
Saturday,
October 7
Angel City
Jazz Festival, Los Angeles
ADAM
RUDOLPH'S MOVING PICTURES and GO: ORGANIC ORCHESTRA
conducted by
Adam Rudolph and featuring Bennie Maupin
Sunday,
October 8
Motherland
Music, Inglewood
Adam Rudolph
and Hamid Drake "Karuna Percussion Duet"
Tuesday,
October 10
Rhizome,
Washington, DC
Adam Rudolph
and Hamid Drake "Karuna Percussion Duet"
Wednesday,
October 11
The Windup
Space, Baltimore
Adam Rudolph
and Hamid Drake "Karuna Percussion Duet"
Friday,
October 20
BOP STOP -
The Music Settlement, Cleveland
ADAM
RUDOLPH'S MOVING PICTURES
Saturday,
October 21
Edgefest
Kerrytown, Ann Arbor
ADAM
RUDOLPH'S MOVING PICTURES
Sunday,
October 22
Lafontsee
Galleries, Grand Rapids
ADAM
RUDOLPH'S MOVING PICTURES
Friday,
November 17
Firehouse
12, New Haven
ADAM
RUDOLPH'S MOVING PICTURES
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