Label: Cold Blue Music
Catalog#: CB0038
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2013
DISCOGS AMAZON OFFICIAL
1 Music For Airport Furniture 22:47
Ensemble – Zephyr Quartet
オーストラリアの現代音楽作曲家Stephen Whittington（スティーブン・ウィッティントン）。Cold Blue最新タイトル「空港の家具のための音楽」は、退屈、不安、絶望、孤独、別れ──人々の情感が縦横に通りがかる舞台・空港ラウンジのために作曲されたメランコリックな弦楽四重奏曲。Erik Satie「Musique d'Ameublement」（家具の音楽）、Brian Eno「Music For Airports」へのオマージュとして。
Music for Airport Furniture is Cold Blue's first release of Stephen Whittington's refined, beautiful music. Whittington is something of a musical vagabond, traveling widely and writing music that is often multicultural in its inspiration. With this in mind, this compelling and subline string quartet could be heard as a strange homage to the act of traveling, airport to airport. The composer writes about the piece, "Music for Airport Furniture is a work for string quartet that alludes to Erik Satie’s 'furniture music.' I was interested in the airport departure lounge as an arena for human emotions—boredom, apprehension, hope, despair, loneliness, the tenderness of farewells—all taking place within a bland, often desolate space." — Stephen Whittington
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