drift nowhere past / the adventure of sleep, by Reinier van Houdt

drift nowhere past / the adventure of sleep

by Reinier van Houdt

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	1.	disc 1: drift nowhere past (22 march 2020) 14:00
	2.	disc 1: friction sleep maze (22 april 2020) 08:51
	3.	disc 1: horizon without traveler (22 may 2020) 10:43
	4.	disc 1: skies waves trails (22 june 2020) 21:08
	5.	disc 1: bardo for Cor (22 july 2020) 07:48
	6.	disc 1: mystery of erasure (22 august 2020) 11:29
	7.	disc 2: a stitch in time 10:36
	8.	disc 2: parallel spaces 06:13
	9.	disc 2: -void- 12:25
	10.	disc 2: a fold 06:16
	11.	disc 2: a stitch in time (excerpt) 04:23

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elsewhere 021-1 / elsewhere 021-2

Rotterdam-based composer/pianist Reinier van Houdt created six pieces from March 22 to August 22, 2020 for a monthly 'quarantine' series of the online festival AMPLIFY 2020: quarantine, commissioned by Jon Abbey. Each of the six pieces on 'drift nowhere past' was recorded on the 22nd of each month (#18, #75, #128, #155, #194, #211).

"I've made these pieces from what I played, listened to, recorded, played back, read, watched, heard, or imagined, each during one specific day in the quarantine of 2020."

After the online festival ended along with the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Yuko Zama invited van Houdt to work on a counterpart later to be released together with the six pieces on two companion CDs.

"Where 'drift nowhere past' is a collection of journal entries and focuses on whatever is entering into the mind on a specific day each month, the new piece 'the adventure of sleep' concentrates on situations that recur every day: realizing the passing of time, hearing the sounds of neighbours, the moment of falling asleep, the moment of waking up. Like 'drift nowhere past’, 'the adventure of sleep' spans a six-month period and again the material simply came from what was already there, accessible, happening, remembered, imagined or otherwise.

For both these works, a quote by Franz Kafka served as a silent motto, its meaning even compounded by the Covid lockdowns during which the music was composed: “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”

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released May 3, 2022

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Disc 1

Reinier van Houdt - drift nowhere past

1. drift nowhere past (22 march 2020)
2. friction sleep maze (22 april 2020)
3. horizon without traveler (22 may 2020)
4. skies waves trails (22 june 2020)
5. bardo for Cor (22 july 2020)
6. mystery of erasure (22 august 2020)

composed, performed, recorded, mixed by Reinier van Houdt
in Rotterdam in March - August 2020
for AMPLIFY 2020: quarantine

mastered by Taku Unami
photography by Reinier van Houdt
design by Yuko Zama
produced by Jon Abbey and Yuko Zama

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Disc 2

Reinier van Houdt - the adventure of sleep

1. a stitch in time
2. parallel spaces
3. -void-
4. a fold

composed, performed, recorded, mixed by Reinier van Houdt
in Rotterdam in May 2021 - February 2022

mastered by Taku Unami
photography by Reinier van Houdt
design and produced by Yuko Zama

special thanks to: Yuko Zama, Jon Abbey, Rita Knuistingh Neven, the Otto Luening Trust, Takashi Makino, Thomas Mohr, Alan Courtis, MAZE, Martijn Tellinga

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