Album Overview:
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Label: Albany Records
Performers: Cindy Cox (piano), Earplay Ensemble, Continental Trombone Quartet
Tracks:
- Hierosgamos: Studies in Harmony and Resonance, for solo piano (2003) 28:38
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- Axis Mundi, for amplified flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, and live electronics (2004) 13:49
- Nature Is, for amplified trombone quartet and live electronics (2006) 18:01
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Composer’s Notes
Cindy Cox’s music emerges from a century whose loyalty oscillates between its concern for pure sound and pure form. But her deep attention to the sound world is held, shaped, and engaged through its purposeful structure, a synthesis that provides a third way. What Cox offers is more than a mere rapprochement one side with its other but a deep conjunction between them. Cox studied with, among others, Donald Erb, John Eaton, Bernard Rands and John Harbison. Cox’s own music is experimental yet has a “grounding” in traditional means of expression, dealing with issues of timbre and musical resonance. She is also an excellent pianist and interpreter, having studied with the famed Lili Kraus.