Stephan Mathieu - Radiance (2018) {12CD Box Set Schwebung Étendue I-XII}

RADIANCE is a new work by Stephan Mathieu comprising twelve album-length pieces, each of them following the concept of stasis, the unfolding of time and sustained frequencies, deep listening, and immersive soundscapes.

The sequence for the whole set is conceived as one album in twelve parts:

Works on this record:

I. ALAP FOR STEEL NEEDLE, RECORD AND THEORBE
A dedication to early music pioneer and instrument maker Arnold Dolmetsch

II. MUSIC FOR THE ANSWER
A score by France Jobin and Stephan Mathieu for Cedrick Eymenier’s film The Answer

III. BLACK SQUARE FOR ROBERT FLUDD
For 78rpm records

IV. A RAINBOW OF MOONLIGHT
For voices and gongs

V. FOR FRANZ WRIGHT
For Frafisa Pro piano, tabletop zither and shortwave radio

VI. KEPLER
For piano and planetary movements

VII. PROCESS
For Renaissance strings, mechanical-acoustic gramophones and binary code

VIII. TO HAVE ELEMENTS EXIST IN SPACE
An interpretation of Earle Brown’s seminal graphic score December 1952*

IX. FOR MORTON FELDMAN
For percussion and strings*

X. HER DARK GAZE DROWNED IN LIGHT
A re-narration of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr

XI. MUSIC WITH MAGNETIC STRINGS
For ebowed virginals. Dedicated to Alvin Lucier

XII. PACIFIC
For Farfisa Pro piano and gong