The Cryonic Chants

Chants, rather than songs form the melodic base of this concerto, because they better express their alien, or in some verses, their sacred origin: animal writings.
The letters making up the lyric phrases were actually chosen by a she-goat indicating the notes with her muzzle as she stood on a carpet laid down on her pasture and marked out with alphabetic symbols.
This method of composition shaves any poetic form down to ground level; or rather it reformulates it from the smallest linguistic unit, which is the letter.
The letter is a sound that needs a meaning, when it is taken as simply part of a word, but here it takes upon itself the entire density of the language yet to come. It contains within itself something of the power of the atom, something able to merge together light and darkness.
Chiara Guidi has harvested the clusters of letters gleaned by the goat, forming them into new words, which are structured exactly as “old” words, laden with meaning, the tools of poetry.
The lexicon of this language cannot be found in a book, but in music that is capable of reaching back down to the origin of the word, to the unity of the single letter.

The electronic-acoustic music of Scott Gibbons blows inside and outside the letters, like a bellows igniting those phonic and cosmic sparks that are the faculties of an order of discourse.
Gibbons and Guidi have composed the chants in a language that is utterly foreign, from another Earth, from another time and from another being, while continuing to use a human syntax.
The musical setting of the chants, in diatonic polyphony, is based predominantly on human sources, but the anthropomorphic component is indiscernible.

The result is a majestic symphony that unfolds over ancient harmonies and syncopations, offering flashes of a previous future. The blending and interrelationship of Gregorian and twelve-tone forms, the concerto’s precise mathematical proportions together with its metres and accents that cancel out isomorphisms, all combine to make this concerto an adventure in sound and in time.

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Scott Gibbons, Chiara Guidi - The Cryonic Chants (KML 2113)

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1.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - M. Sr. Qssv	5m 3s
2.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - Ser Val Tir	3m 47s
3.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - Frozen Spasm	1m 1s
4.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - Ski In Dlang	4m 51s
5.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - Gatvitn	3m 12s
6.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - Lastmy Flii	4m 10s
7.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - Tir Angasm	4m 33s
8.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - Alleu Met	2m 46s
9.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - Ala Cis	4m 3s
10.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - M. T. P. T. M. M.	2m 6s
11.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - Casus Belli	5m 16s

Scott Gibbons, Chiara Guidi - The Cryonic Chants (KML 2113CD)

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1.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - M. Sr. Qssv
2.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - Ser Val Tir
3.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - Frozen Spasm
4.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - Ski In Dlang
5.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - Gatvitn
6.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - Lastmy Flii
7.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - Tir Angasm
8.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - Alleu Met
9.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - Ala Cis
10.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - M. T. P. T. M. M.
11.		Scott Gibbons and Chiara Guidi - Casus Belli

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