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{"id":8788553924858,"title":"Stephen Whittington \/\/ Final Fragments - piano music of David Kotlowy LP","handle":"stephen-whittington-final-fragments-piano-music-of-david-kotlowy-lp","description":"\u003cp\u003eオーストラリア・アデレイドの実験音楽家Stephen Whittingtonが、2021年にアデレイドの実験レーベルde la Catessenからリリースしたレコードです。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eミニマルなピアノ独奏12曲を収録。廃盤です。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2766948113\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/delaca\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e \/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/delaca\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more de la Catessen releases available at Tobira.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e----------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12\" black vinyl.\u003cbr\u003e2nd edition of 50. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. piano 25-7-94 11:17\u003cbr\u003e2. Well-Fed Preludes - Half Asleep 02:37\u003cbr\u003e3. Well-Fed Preludes - Winter Warmth 02:00\u003cbr\u003e4. Well-Fed Preludes - Da Lontano 04:12\u003cbr\u003e5. piano 26-7-93 04:22\u003cbr\u003e6. piano 25-7-93 04:29\u003cbr\u003e7. piano 27-7-93 04:28\u003cbr\u003e8. final fragments - one 01:57\u003cbr\u003e9. final fragments - two 01:40\u003cbr\u003e10. final fragments - three 01:38\u003cbr\u003e11. final fragments - four 01:08\u003cbr\u003e12. final fragments - five 01:55\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText excerpt written by \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003eJon Dale, via the label: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“...\u003cem\u003eThe music in this LP comprises some of my early post-graduate work,” Kotlowy says, reflecting on the works compiled here. “Finding my own way through the spell of John Cage, Japanese aesthetics, and process music... My musical ethos was, and continues to be informed by Japanese musical aesthetics, particularly the desire to produce a maximum effect from a limited amount of material, and the principles of honkyoku shakuhachi.” From these constituent elements, guided by such principles, Kotlowy has navigated his way to a composer’s voice that admits limitation as inspiration, restriction as the spur to invention, and finds a way to reflect its forebears without ever being beholden to their voices.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eListening to these pieces, I can hear a gentle steeliness in their repose; these works are uninterested in excess, rather locating a sturdy eloquence in saying only what need be said. Adelaide composer, and De la Catessen label head, Luke Altmann recalls meeting Kotlowy at 2000’s Barossa International Music Festival, where the latter was a guest speaker in a student workshop. “At a time when many young composers were looking for ways to sound more impressive through filling in all the gaps in their scores, David’s gave counter-intuitive but sage advice: to look for things to leave out. Not to develop ideas, but to reduce them until only their essence remained, and that in itself would be your music.” Reflecting on the implications of this approach, Altmann concludes, “It seemed radically austere.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt is also radically beautiful, and perhaps, most of all, radically human. This may come, at least in part, from Kotlowy’s interest in breath as a compositional tactic. The mid ‘90s pieces use breath to determine tempo and duration. “This is a direct influence of honkyoku shakuhachi music,” Kotlowy says, drawing parallels with the twelfth-century tradition that is associated with Zen Buddhism, “and is quite simple: relaxed inhalation at a bar line, then breathe out, playing the notes in the bar for the duration of the exhalation. Structurally, the breath phrasing acts like flexible time frames, and so, with musical duration intimately linked to a performer’s breath, the music achieves an elasticity and unpredictability that expresses the individuality of each musician and the singularity of each performance... The breath- based works are the heart (or perhaps the lungs) of my compositional output for the twenty years from 1990 to 2010.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eElsewhere, there are the gorgeous Well-Fed Preludes, which Kotlowy reflects are “a clear acknowledgment of the music of Erik Satie, and America's West Coast minimalists,” and there’s a homage in the titling of 2003’s Final Fragments, drawing as it does from the titles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eof two Morton Feldman pieces, Last Pieces (1959) and Turfan Fragments (1980). “The sonic palette is larger than the earlier pieces,” Kotlowy acknowledges, “but the music is still restrained. I was aiming for a ‘beauty without biography’, a phrase Feldman used to describe his music.” Throughout, I am struck by the music’s poetics, its capacity to still the moment, and its ability to balance rigour of praxis with gentleness of touch. This surely is also down to Whittington’s masterful, beguiling performances...\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Stephen Whittington\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : de la Catessen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecat no : DLC003\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-12-01T11:23:47+09:00","created_at":"2025-05-19T13:09:15+09:00","vendor":"Tobira Records","type":"","tags":["contemporary \/ sound poetry","de la catessen","lp","new"],"price":399000,"price_min":399000,"price_max":399000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":47324657746170,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Stephen Whittington \/\/ Final Fragments - piano music of David Kotlowy LP","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":399000,"weight":430,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/fin1_4b5dbd1d-4b12-40a4-9331-a14241865718.jpg?v=1747627531","\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/fin2_e66f65b6-a9f2-4b1a-9ced-97b0f19fafe1.jpg?v=1747627531"],"featured_image":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/fin1_4b5dbd1d-4b12-40a4-9331-a14241865718.jpg?v=1747627531","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":36052048281850,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"width":700,"src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/fin1_4b5dbd1d-4b12-40a4-9331-a14241865718.jpg?v=1747627531"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/fin1_4b5dbd1d-4b12-40a4-9331-a14241865718.jpg?v=1747627531","width":700},{"alt":null,"id":36052048314618,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.412,"height":850,"width":1200,"src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/fin2_e66f65b6-a9f2-4b1a-9ced-97b0f19fafe1.jpg?v=1747627531"},"aspect_ratio":1.412,"height":850,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/fin2_e66f65b6-a9f2-4b1a-9ced-97b0f19fafe1.jpg?v=1747627531","width":1200}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eオーストラリア・アデレイドの実験音楽家Stephen Whittingtonが、2021年にアデレイドの実験レーベルde la Catessenからリリースしたレコードです。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eミニマルなピアノ独奏12曲を収録。廃盤です。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2766948113\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/delaca\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e \/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/delaca\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more de la Catessen releases available at Tobira.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e----------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12\" black vinyl.\u003cbr\u003e2nd edition of 50. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. piano 25-7-94 11:17\u003cbr\u003e2. Well-Fed Preludes - Half Asleep 02:37\u003cbr\u003e3. Well-Fed Preludes - Winter Warmth 02:00\u003cbr\u003e4. Well-Fed Preludes - Da Lontano 04:12\u003cbr\u003e5. piano 26-7-93 04:22\u003cbr\u003e6. piano 25-7-93 04:29\u003cbr\u003e7. piano 27-7-93 04:28\u003cbr\u003e8. final fragments - one 01:57\u003cbr\u003e9. final fragments - two 01:40\u003cbr\u003e10. final fragments - three 01:38\u003cbr\u003e11. final fragments - four 01:08\u003cbr\u003e12. final fragments - five 01:55\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText excerpt written by \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003eJon Dale, via the label: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“...\u003cem\u003eThe music in this LP comprises some of my early post-graduate work,” Kotlowy says, reflecting on the works compiled here. “Finding my own way through the spell of John Cage, Japanese aesthetics, and process music... My musical ethos was, and continues to be informed by Japanese musical aesthetics, particularly the desire to produce a maximum effect from a limited amount of material, and the principles of honkyoku shakuhachi.” From these constituent elements, guided by such principles, Kotlowy has navigated his way to a composer’s voice that admits limitation as inspiration, restriction as the spur to invention, and finds a way to reflect its forebears without ever being beholden to their voices.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eListening to these pieces, I can hear a gentle steeliness in their repose; these works are uninterested in excess, rather locating a sturdy eloquence in saying only what need be said. Adelaide composer, and De la Catessen label head, Luke Altmann recalls meeting Kotlowy at 2000’s Barossa International Music Festival, where the latter was a guest speaker in a student workshop. “At a time when many young composers were looking for ways to sound more impressive through filling in all the gaps in their scores, David’s gave counter-intuitive but sage advice: to look for things to leave out. Not to develop ideas, but to reduce them until only their essence remained, and that in itself would be your music.” Reflecting on the implications of this approach, Altmann concludes, “It seemed radically austere.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt is also radically beautiful, and perhaps, most of all, radically human. This may come, at least in part, from Kotlowy’s interest in breath as a compositional tactic. The mid ‘90s pieces use breath to determine tempo and duration. “This is a direct influence of honkyoku shakuhachi music,” Kotlowy says, drawing parallels with the twelfth-century tradition that is associated with Zen Buddhism, “and is quite simple: relaxed inhalation at a bar line, then breathe out, playing the notes in the bar for the duration of the exhalation. Structurally, the breath phrasing acts like flexible time frames, and so, with musical duration intimately linked to a performer’s breath, the music achieves an elasticity and unpredictability that expresses the individuality of each musician and the singularity of each performance... The breath- based works are the heart (or perhaps the lungs) of my compositional output for the twenty years from 1990 to 2010.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eElsewhere, there are the gorgeous Well-Fed Preludes, which Kotlowy reflects are “a clear acknowledgment of the music of Erik Satie, and America's West Coast minimalists,” and there’s a homage in the titling of 2003’s Final Fragments, drawing as it does from the titles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eof two Morton Feldman pieces, Last Pieces (1959) and Turfan Fragments (1980). “The sonic palette is larger than the earlier pieces,” Kotlowy acknowledges, “but the music is still restrained. I was aiming for a ‘beauty without biography’, a phrase Feldman used to describe his music.” Throughout, I am struck by the music’s poetics, its capacity to still the moment, and its ability to balance rigour of praxis with gentleness of touch. This surely is also down to Whittington’s masterful, beguiling performances...\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Stephen Whittington\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : de la Catessen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecat no : DLC003\u003c\/p\u003e"}