rōnin phasing probes a multidimensional orchestral conception channeled through the limits of a solo wind instrument: alto saxophone. Independent melodic strains, each voicing distinct rhythms, sound simultaneously. Some very different sounding conceptual parallels to this polymelodirhythmic orientation might be heard in Bach’s solo violin works, in kora music, mantuno, mbira, or the musics of Bambuti forest peoples; but in addition to this, rōnin phasing explores the possibilities of multidirectional thinking (whether concurrent or sequential) that’s accessible through solo improvisation.
rōnin phasing LIVE 2/17/15
Introduction by Lazaro Vega
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Interview part 1
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Interview part 2
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Interview part 3
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rōnin phasing: 1+2+3 Series, Brooklyn 3/19/16
Monk’s Mood (Monk)
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Chronology (O. Coleman)
rōnin phasing: Vision Festival 2008
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The Sound of One Horn Playing
Three Paths for the Solo Saxophone:
Gianni Mimmo, Marco Colonna, patrick brennan
by Daniel Barbiero
Perfect Sound Forever, June 1, 2020
Because brennan’s metagroove music is rooted in what he’s described as a “multidimensional orchestral conception,” the translation of those ideas into concrete sounds for the alto saxophone posed the specific challenge of how to realize an essentially polyphonic music on an unaccompanied, monophonic instrument. .
…It begins with a staccato burst of notes with a percussive flavor and develops through a series of rhythmically complex, harmonically pregnant moves, chief among them asymmetrically accented phrases and variations in dynamics as well as the displacement of the downbeat through leaps of register and the off-balance placement of quasi-leading tones. The rhythms are further elaborated with accelerating and decelerating tempos and pauses.