The Flow Cycle for Strings
Richard Carrick and Either/Or
Released August 2011
New World Records, #80719.
Apple Music, Spotify
“quietly virtuosic and addictive” The Wire UK
“a rich, beguiling composition” The New York Times
“Constructed as free fantasies, where moment-to-moment activity takes precedence over organizational unity, they articulate small details with energetic gestures - jolting, swooping, lilting rhythms; irregular phrase lengths and unexpected accents; string harmonics, bristling pizzicati, exaggerated bowing, and other tonal/textural effects.
But there is also an ever-present clarity of line and dramatic continuity that help the music sound subtly familiar and vigorously new at the same time."
Fanfare Magazine
01 “in flow” - Violin, 7’, Andrea Schultz
02 Shadow Flow - Viola, 12’, Dov Scheindlin
03 Moroccan Flow (unfolding from unity) - Cello, 9’, Alex Waterman
04 Duo Flow - Violin and Cello, 12’, Kuan Cheng Lu and Eric Bartlett
05 “à cause du soleil” Flow Trio - String Trio, 11’, Kuan Cheng Lu, Dov Scheindlin, Eric Bartlett
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