{"product_id":"jules-reidy-clerestory","title":"Jules Reidy - Clerestory","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"60\" data-end=\"415\"\u003eA clerestory is an upper section of wall, most often in a church, punctuated by windows. It is a powerful image for grasping this luminous new music from \u003cstrong data-start=\"214\" data-end=\"229\"\u003eJules Reidy\u003c\/strong\u003e. Light casts shadows, of course, and logics of shadowing, mirroring and distorted reflection—of key importance for Reidy’s work as a whole—inform the sumptuous surfaces of \u003cem data-start=\"402\" data-end=\"414\"\u003eClerestory\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"417\" data-end=\"748\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"417\" data-end=\"437\"\u003e“Shadow Symmetric”\u003c\/em\u003e is a string quartet commissioned and performed by the \u003cstrong data-start=\"492\" data-end=\"508\"\u003eJACK Quartet\u003c\/strong\u003e as part of their JACK Studio program. Reidy’s pairing with the quartet is felicitous: JACK are one of the preeminent new music ensembles working today, with a particular interest in just intonation, an important component of Reidy’s music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"750\" data-end=\"1127\"\u003eThe piece’s gentle pacing and constrained dynamic range invites us to become immersed in its language of static resonance, complex beating tones and subtle harmonic surprise. Through it threads a melodic theme, passed between instruments and tuning systems, almost at the threshold of perception but with the same yearning quality familiar to listeners of Reidy’s guitar works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1129\" data-end=\"1573\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1129\" data-end=\"1151\"\u003e“Clerestory Windows”\u003c\/em\u003e offers up a distorted mirror image of the string quartet, arranged as a series of episodes that each remake the material in their own way. It begins with an arrangement of the string quartet material for MIDI strings and voices, then moves into a lyrical 12-string acoustic guitar air performed at the installation opening, before the strings from the first side reappear, now frozen and stretched into slow-moving waves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1575\" data-end=\"1912\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eFrom this emerge flickering arpeggios, achieved by arranging the string quartet material for the RMI. This cues a move into more active terrain, preparing the way for the delirious final episode, where the string quartet material is rearranged once more, eventually giving way to spacious chords shadowed by a pair of ringing sine tones.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thrill Jockey Records","offers":[{"title":"Indie Exclusive Metallic Gold Vinyl LP","offer_id":58392192647513,"sku":"SDZ-47781","price":41.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":58392192680281,"sku":"SDZ-47782","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/0045694927_10.jpg?v=1782319933","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/jules-reidy-clerestory","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}