QUARTETS by hedia
Composed and recorded by Bryce Hample
Bass Viola Da Gamba, Piano, electronics
recorded at Graft Gallery, ABQ, NM
Album artwork image by Lauren Kenward
A conceptual Viola Da Gamba quartet recording,
Recorded in stereo in the center of the gallery using only the natural reverberation of the concrete gallery space, Each voice was performed from a different location of the room, starting in the corners.
Microtonal passages swarm and press in against the droning overtones – compositional fingerprints from an otherwise invisible hand.
Accompanying these compositions are location-based videos full of overhead and drone landscape shots that breathe with a subtle movement that resist the temptation to fall into recognizable patterns. They hold on the inner stillness of winter or transient light dancing on the tops of trees.
Tracklist
| 1. | Quartet 1 | 3:30 |
| 2. | Quartet 2 | 2:56 |
| 3. | Quartet 3 | 4:48 |
| 4. | Quartet 4 | 3:15 |
| 5. | 4 tetrauq | 3:15 |
| 6. | 3 tetrauq | 4:48 |
| 7. | 2 tetrauq | 2:56 |
| 8. | 1 tetrauq | 3:30 |
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Hedia is the music of multi-instrumentalist Bryce Hample. Hedia is spacial music, creating a place to inhabit, if only temporarily. Musical spaces to encompass the listener, unfolding organically and spaciously, in a blanket of drifting piano chords, viola da gamba, cello, brass, subdued guitar, and tape manipulations.