Revelation: Music in Pure Intonation (Complete and Abridged Versions, 1999-2006)
In October 2007 Bang on a Can’s Cantaloupe Music label will release the long awaited recording of Harrison’s Revelation: Music In Pure Intonation. Revelation utilizes innovative tuning relationships to further develop just intonation—an ancient tuning system where the distances between notes are based upon whole number ratios. The result is a 72-minute work where groups of notes played together rapidly with both hands form “…pulsating, shimmering walls of sound in which all kinds of ghost-like sound effects and structures appear” (The Wire). Mark Swed of the LA Times says of Revelation: “Perhaps the most surprising quality of Revelation is its straightforward sensuality…along with heaping doses of old-fashioned, jaw-dropping virtuosity that simply pull the listener along.” Revelation was awarded the Classical Recording Foundation Award (2006), IBLA Foundation International Competition Prize in Music Composition (2004), and Peter S. Reed Foundation Individual Artist Grant (2001). |
