Sebastian Currier’s music reflects his fascination with “an ideal place to be, both in life and art: on the verge of extremity but not crossing it.” Journeying intriguingly and inquisitively around this border region, his music explores the tensions in a world of oppositions, shifting perspectives, and multiple meanings. The CD features the World Premiere recording of Static, a Copland House commission that won the coveted Grawemeyer Award in 2007, and probes the ambiguity of its title and the frontiers where ambient sound becomes ordered music. Other first recordings are Night Time, hailed by The Washington Post as “one of the best pieces of contemporary classical music,” and Variations on “Time and Time Again,” which flirts with a tune that may be real or illusory. Verge stands “on the edge of excess,” courting danger on every page at the boundaries of speed, intensity, cohesiveness, and inaudibility.
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