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Enmeshed (feat. Leslee Smucker)

by Conor Abbott Brown

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The ear is a go between; the eye a lover in unison with the beloved. The eye has the actual bliss while the ear has only the words that promise it.
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When the ear is subtle, it becomes an eye; otherwise, the words are enmeshed and cannot reach the heart. There is no intuitive certainty until you burn: if you desire that certainty, sit down in the fire!

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Enmeshed evokes the soul-charring premonitions that haunt dreams. Leslee Smucker's violin playing and voice are presented in their rawest forms and also layered and mangled via electronic manipulations.

Enmeshed was premiered as part of multimedia performance Meshes (2019), an evening-length exploration of silent film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) by Maya Deren.

The text is from the Mathnavi, by Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, a Persian mystic from the 13th century. Setting these particular texts was inspired by the composition Sound and Silence II (1971), by Tera de Marez Oyens, which includes the same texts as interludes between its graphically-notated movements.

If you would like to perform this piece, performance materials are available here: conorabbottbrown.bandcamp.com/album/enmeshed-performance-materials-fixed-media-score

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released May 25, 2019

Violin, voice, and artwork: Leslee Smucker
Composition, recording, and electronics: Conor Abbott Brown

Recorded in Altona, Colorado in early 2019.

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Conor Abbott Brown Altona, Colorado

Conor Abbott Brown's music could be the dream of a lost mountain range or the folk music of a culture that has never existed. Conor melds the avant-garde with ornamentation and rhythm abstracted from West Asian and European folk music to form a personal idiom. Conor is a member of the Code Switch Composer Collective, a group exploring how music can connect our diverse societies. ... more

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