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Title:  May 6, 2001 Artist:  Taylor Dupree, Kenneth Kirschner, Thomas Korber, Steinruechel, Aaron Ximm Compilation Label:  And/Oar Format:  CD Price:  € 9.50   Mp3 samples: none

Title Description:
On the night of Sunday, May 6, 2001, composer Kenneth Kirschner, as part of
a series of pieces documenting the sounds of different New ÊYork City
neighborhoods, took his tape recorder to the Financial ÊDistrict of Lower
Manhattan to begin field recordings for a new Êpiece. The resulting
low-resolution portrait captured the sounds of a Êdeserted urban landscape: the
empty, winding streets of old Dutch New ÊAmsterdam, its modern, towering
skyscrapers -- and a region of the Êcity that, several months later, would be
renamed Ground Zero.

and/OAR is proud to present "May 6, 2001", a collection of five interpretations by
five renowned Êcontemporary composers of the aforementioned Êfield recording
portrait.

With excerpts from Kirschner's original Ê2001 composition based on the field
recording, the CD also includes pieces Êby Taylor Deupree (USA), Tomas
Korber (Switzerland), Ralph ÊSteinbrŸchel (Switzerland), and Aaron Ximm
(aka Quiet American; USA), Êall utilizing the 2001 Financial District field
recording as their Êsole source material. The result is a project that obliquely and
Êsubtly evokes the source recording and its subsequent meanings, while Êalso
standing on its own as an estimable example of each artist's Êmastery of his
craft.

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