• Source: Utp (album)

utp_ is the fourth collaboration between Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Ensemble Modern is featured on the CD as well.




Reception


After the opening pair of compositions, the remaining disc consists of four pieces, played twice over, perhaps in adherence to the notion that an event only receives signification upon its repetition. In any case, the compositions are cleverly elliptical, loose, but with a complexity of inter-action that displaces the listener just enough. In fact, this balanced exchange between the air-locked ambience and freshness and seeming spontaneity of the string ensemble is one of the works strongest appeals; if only it had been in the least bit upset now and again, one suspects the results would be stronger still.
When this set of pieces is played over for the second time, on the DVD, the lines undergo a re-harmonization, and the performance peaks with an enervated double-time section. Together with the visuals, this makes for a rich, steadily evolving continuum — Utopia in a surprisingly traditional sense.
—Max Schaefer, The Squid's Ear




Track listing


"Attack" – 7:24
"Grains" – 6:24
"Particle 1" – 6:40
"Transition" – 3:31
"Broken Line 1" – 6:32
"Plateaux 1" – 8:07
"Silence" – 6:51
"Particle 2" – 7:00
"Broken Line 2" – 6:29
"Plateaux 2" – 12:59




Personnel


Ryuichi Sakamoto – piano, electronics
Alva Noto – electronics
Aaron Baird – double bass
Rainer Romer – percussion
Rumi Ogawa – percussion
Johannes Schwarz – bassoon, contrabassoon
Eva Bocker – cello
Michael M. Kasper – cello
John Corbett – clarinet, bass clarinet
Nina Jansen – clarinet, bass clarinet
Detmar Wiesner – flute, piccolo
Patrick Judt – viola
Yuval Gotlibovich – viola




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