Duras: Duchamp (1997)
Track Listing
Duras
1. Premiere Livre 14:41
2. Deuxième Livre 0:51
3. Troisième Livre 16:46
4. Epilogue 1:46
Étant Donnés
5a. 69 Paroxyms For Marcel Duchamp: 1-43 8:00
5b. 69 Paroxyms For Marcel Duchamp: 44-57 3:15
5c. 69 Paroxyms For Marcel Duchamp: 58-69 2:02
Personnel
Christine Bard: Percussion
Anthony Coleman: Piano
Cenovia Cummins: Violin
Mark Feldman: Violin
Erik Friedlander: Cello
John Medeski: Organ
Jim Pugliese: Percussion
John Zorn: Conductor
Production
Produced by John Zorn
Associate Producers - Kazunori Sugiyama
Duras recorded by Jim anderson at Avatar, NYV on May Day 1997
Etant Donnes recorded by Jason Baker at Shelley Palmer Studio, NYC on April Fool's Day 1997
Mastered by Allan Tucker at Foothill Digital
Design: Kimsu Theiler
Cover Photograph M'a brule les mainsen mourant and photograph at left by Claude Cahus (1936) courtesy UBU Gallery amd Zabriskie Gallery
Special Thanks to Adam Boxer
TZADIK Blurb
France has been the birthplace of some of the greatest creative minds of the 20th Century. Duras:Duchamp is a tribute to two timeless figures who have forever changed our view of the world.
Over thirty minutes in length, Duras is a major new composition inspired by the romantic writings of Marguerite Duras and the mystical music of Olivier Messiaen. Seductive, elusive, ritualistic. Duras is a hypnotic work of startling clarity and complexity.
Étant Donnés is the perfect companion piece to Duras: a provocative noise trio inspired by the enigmatic last masterpiece of Marcel Duchamp, one of France's greatest conceptualists.
Series: Composer Series
Catalogue Number: TZ7023
Release Date: 1997