Now widely available for the first time, this re-release documents the historic meeting of leading contemporary composer Jonathan Harvey and internationally renowned cellist Frances-Marie Uitti. Imaginings is a set of nine extracts from an improvisation for cello and synthesizers. Although taken from a single and spontaneously-conceived creation, each selected extract concentrates on particular musical ideas and timbric sources. The result is a collection of eerie and evocative sonic landscapes that explore a variety of innovative and often surprising techniques. Recorded in the Harvey studio in 1993, these experiments in sound are only lightly edited -- mostly to eliminate background 'noise' provided by the family dog Sappho. The cello is retuned but untreated electronically; the synthesizers used are the Yamaha SY77 and DX7 11. |