Scott Fields

DIGIPACK EDITION

Sand is a Fields composition for 20 instrumentalists, three singers, and conductor. It combines three areas in which he has often worked: modularity, manipulation of text, and integration of composition and improvisation.

Like Fields’ previous modular works, Sand is constructed of units whose interrelationships vary from weak to strong. In performance a conductor spontaneously selects, combines, sequences, and layers modules. Sand also includes improvisational elements within structures and “organic cues,” in which characteristics of a musician’s natural performance, such as the duration of a single slow stroke of a bow or a single breath determines the timing of cues to other instrumentalists.

PERSONNEL:

• Axel Lindner, Carolin Pook - (violin)
• Annegret Mayer-Lindenberg - (viola)
• Katharina Hoffmann, Scott Roller - (cello)
• Jonas Gerigk, Miles Perkin - (contrabass)
• Tal Botvinik, Sergio Sorrentino, David Stackenä - (electric guitar)
• Daniel Agi, Norbert Rodenkirchen - (flute)
• Frank Gratkowski - (clarinet)
• Salim Javaid - (alto sax)
• Matthias Schubert - (tenor sax)
• Udo Moll - (trumpet)v
• Matthias Muche - (trombone)
• Melvyn Poore - (tuba)
• Shiau-Shiuan Hung, Arturo Portugal - (percussion)
• Tamara Lukasheva, Hanna Schörken, Sophie Tassignon - (voices)
• Scott Fields - (conductor

Recorded live at the Alte Feuerwache, Cologne, Germany, 20 February 2022.

TRACKS:

• 01. Sand 1
• 02. Sand 2
• 03. Sand 3
• 04. Sand 4
• 05. Sand 5
• 06. Sand 6
• 07. Sand 7
• 08. Sand 8
• 09. Sand 9