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"Eight cellos in a circle. The audience can sit around the octet, or even inside the circle. The cellists start to play, and the resulting music spirals around like a moving object. 8 is part of a series of works that started with Timber for six percussionists playing amplified simantras, and includes Rushes for seven bassoonists and Amplified for four electric guitarists. Each of these works is meant to induce a quasi-meditative, almost ecstatic state, in the listener as well as the performer.

"The series for like-instruments is meant to be played seamlessly and grow to encompass an entire day. The innovation in this piece is that the sound travels around the circle in both directions. If you are in the middle of the circle, you can hear the dimensionality and perspective of the sound clearly. If you put on headphones and listen closely to the recording, you can hear the bass notes traveling in space independently of the melody line. Each cellist plays both the melody and the bass, switching back and forth in a choreography of musical roles. I think of this perspective of sound a bit like moving from two-dimensional art to three-dimensional art. Sound isn’t a flat line — now it takes on multiple roles in space and time. It is a sculpture of three-dimensions. I picked the title 8 because the number is a beautiful rounded gliding symbol that looks like the cellos when they play together." — Michael Gordon

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released April 16, 2021

Cello Octet Amsterdam: Alistair Sung, Claire Bleumer, Esther Torrenga, Geneviève Verhage,
Rares Mihailescu, René van Munster, Sanne Bijker, Sanne van der Horst

Recorded at the Oosterkerk in Zeist, Netherlands on July 8-11, 2019

Recorded, edited, produced and mastered by Frerik de Jong (Kleinman Audio)

8 was commissioned by Cello Octet Amsterdam with support from Cello Biennale Amsterdam and November Music.

It premiered at the Cello Biennale Amsterdam, presented by the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, on October 20, 2018.

Michael Gordon’s 8 © 2018 by Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP)

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Michael Gordon's music merges subtle rhythmic invention with incredible power embodying, in the words of The New Yorker's Alex Ross, "the fury of punk rock, the nervous brilliance of free jazz and the intransigence of classical modernism."

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