David Crowell - This World and Another

Project Description

This World and Another is an album of electro-acoustic music featuring Vicky Chow, Unheard-of//Ensemble, jazz guitarist Gregg Belisle-Chi (Tim Berne, Henry Threadgill), and myself on saxophones. The electronics are constructed almost entirely from granularly manipulated samples of the musicians themselves, and explore the fragility of memory and the power and evanescence of dreams.

The three pieces on the album - Memories of the Imagined, Exoplanet, and This World and Another - were specifically composed to appear together on this album, with all of the composing and production happening nearly continuously over the course of close to three years.

Album Credits

Composed, Produced, and Mixed by David Crowell
Mastered by Christopher Botta
Engineered by Mike Tierney, Ryan Streber, and David Crowell

Memories of the Imagined
Unheard-of//Ensemble
Iva Casian-Lakos: voice and cello
Matheus Souza: violin
Ford Fourqurean: bass clarinet
Daniel Anastasio: piano

Exoplanet:
David Crowell: saxophones
Gregg Belisle-Chi: electric guitar

This World and Another:
Vicky Chow: piano

Album Art by Rebecca Crowell

Live Performance History

Memories of the Imagined
Tribeca New Music Festival, DiMenna Center (NYC, world premiere)
Tenri Cultural Institute (NYC)
University of Miami, Frost School of Music (Miami, FL)
Mission San Jose (San Antonio, TX)
Dennison University (Granville, OH)
Ohio University (Athens, OH)
Miami University (Oxford, OH)

Exoplanet
Not intended for live performance

This World and Another
World Premiere this summer at MASS MoCA, Loud Weekend