like nobody else
Jürg Frey (1953-), String Quartet No. 4 (Mvt. I), 2018-20, 22; Quatuor Bozzini, 2024
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago (Georgia O’Keeffe: “My New Yorks“, through 9/22/24)
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), The Shelton with Sunspots, N.Y. (1926), detail
like nothing else
Jürg Frey, “Architecture Circulaire” (2017), for 5 contrabass clarinets and 5 percussionists (clarinets: Armand Angster, Hans Koch, Theo Nabicht, Ernesto Molinari, Olivier Vivarès; percussion: Eklekto [Alexandre Babel, Sébastien Cordier, Louis Delignon, Florian Feyer, Dorian Fretto]), live, Geneva, 2017
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other day, Chicago
How about something quiet, delicate, beautiful?
Jürg Frey (1953-), Extended Circular Music No. 8 (2014): Klaus Lang (organ); Ranjevš & Óbasz (Jakub Švejnar, percussion; Štefan Szabó, electric guitar); Prague Quiet Music Collective (Anna Paulová, clarinet, bass clarinet; Milan Jakeš, violin; Luan Gonçalves, bass; Ian Mikyska, string and wind instruments), live, Prague, 2022
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
Why not begin the week with something quiet?
Jürg Frey (1953-), Extended Circular Music No. 4 (2014); Absolut Trio, live, Switzerland (Basel), 1/22/20
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yesterday, Chicago
Some sounds offer solace.
Jürg Frey (1953-), Extended Circular Music No. 7 (2011/2014); Singularity, live, New York, 2018
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Empty mountains:no one to be seen.Yet—hear—human sounds and echoes.Returning sunlightenters the dark woods;Again shiningon the green moss, above.
—Wang Wei (699-759), “Deer Park” (translated from Chinese by Gary Snyder)
what’s new
His sound-world is like no other.
Jürg Frey (1953-), Elemental Realities, for orchestra (2019); SWR Symphonieorchester (Tito Ceccherini, cond.), live (world premiere), Germany (Donaueschinger), 10/20/19
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
Ever feel a hunger for less?
Jürg Frey (1953-), Ephemeral Constructions (2015-2016); Erik Carlson (violin), Jürg Frey (clarinet), Greg Stuart (percussion), University of South Carolina Experimental Music Workshop (Greg Stuart, director), 2017
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a solitary
crow on a bare branch—
autumn evening—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
more
Jürg Frey (1953-), Extended Circular Music No. 4 (2011-2014); Flex Ensemble (Kana Sugimura, violin; Anna Szulc-Kapala, viola; Martha Bijlsma, cello; Endri Nini, piano) with Yoann Trellu (video art), live, Germany (Hannover aka Hanover), 2017
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Moon, plum blossoms,
this, that,
and the day goes.—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by Robert Hass
Why not begin the week with something slow, and quiet, and beautiful?
Jürg Frey (1953-), Petit fragment de paysage (Ko Ishikawa, shō; Mari Adachi, viola), Wen 16 (Seiko Takemoto, cello), Petit fragment de paysage (Mari Adachi, viola; Seiko Takemoto, cello); Wen 29 (Mari Adachi, viola); Petit fragment de paysage (Ko Ishikawa, u; Seiko Takemoto, cello), live, Tokyo, 2016
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even poorly planted
rice plants
slowly, slowly . . . green!—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue
sounds of Chicago
Jürg Frey (1953-), more or less normal, a.pe.ri.od.ic, live, Chicago, 2011
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