Anthony Braxton - 12 Comp (Zim) 2017 (2021) [Official Digital Download]

Early in his career, Anthony Braxton established a foundational taxonomy of musical concepts and gestural categories for improvisers and performers to use in the interpretation of his music - what Braxton calls Language Music. You can hear his first rigorous exploration of many of these on his celebrated 1969 record For Alto. There are only twelve basic varieties to his Language Music: long sound, accented long sound, trills, staccato formings, intervallic formings, and so on. An association with a particular variety of one of the Language Musics is a defining aspect of any of his individual works.

Braxton has also developed a series of compositional modalities: different ways of imagining and structuring how a musician, or musicians, may participate in a given piece. Since 1995, he has been primarily concerned with his Holistic Modeling Musics. Each is associated with one of the Language Musics: Ghost Trance Music (long sound), Falling River Music (accented long sounds), Diamond Curtain Wall Music (trills or ornamentation), Echo Echo Mirror House Music (multiphonics), and Pine Top Aerial Music (short attacks).

Firehouse 12 Records is pleased to release the latest iteration of Braxton's musical system, called ZIM Music, which is derived from language number 11: gradient logics. Gradient logics pertain to aspects of music that continually change, faster and faster, slower and slower, brighter and brighter, darker and darker. 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017 documents 12 performances over the course of two years, showcasing the development of ZIM music as the compositions and ensemble adapted to new musical situations.

TRACKLIST

1. Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 402
2. Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 408
3. Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 409
4. Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 410
5. Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 411
6. Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 412
7. Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 414
8. Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 415
9. Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 416
10. Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 418
11. Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 419
12. Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 420



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