Trust Fall, by James Ilgenfritz

Trust Fall

by James Ilgenfritz

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James Ilgenfritz & New Thread Quartet

Premiered during James Ilgenfritz's 2018 Stone Residency at John Zorn's The Stone At The New School series, Trust Fall blends brazen improvisational gestures with intricate notated material.

composed for the New Thread Quartet:
Geoffrey Landman (soprano saxophone), Kristen McKeon (alto saxophone), Erin Rogers (tenor saxophone) and Zach Herchen (baritone saxophone)

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Trust Fall organizes discrete sound-worlds into a series of scenes that inform each other and ultimately form a network of interwoven approaches to gesturality. Like moss or ivy, the ideas grow together and provide a feeling of continuous intuitive invention. Just as with a very flowing and interactive conversation, the ideas segue smoothly, but continue to move towards or away from primary thematic material.

The different sections focus on different saxophone techniques, like slap tongue, multiphonics, glissando, or different types of air sounds. Whether the result favors calm or surprise, motion or stillness, sonority or noise, the piece flows forward through these ideas in a conversational way.

New Thread Quartet was extremely generous with their time and insight in the development of this piece, offering giant gobs of insight into the most efficient way to communicate the ideas in the piece. So the development was as conversational as the music is intended to feel, and the material is infused with the ideas and conversational nature of how the material developed.

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released August 7, 2020

James Ilgenfritz, composer.

New Thread Quartet
Geoffrey Landman (soprano saxophone), Kristen McKeon (alto saxophone), Erin Rogers (tenor saxophone) and Zach Herchen (baritone saxophone)

Recording: Don Mount

Cover image: James Ilgenfritz
Design/Layout: Andrew Heuback

Recorded live at James Ilgenfritz's 2018 Stone Residency at the New School.

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James Ilgenfritz New York, New York

Composer/bassist James Ilgenfritz is recognized in The Wire & The New Yorker for his “characteristic magnanimity” and "glint of mischief.” James had residencies at John Zorn’s The Stone in 2015 & 2017. He’s worked with Anthony Braxton, Thomas Buckner, David First, Pauline Oliveros, & Roscoe Mitchell. He directs Infrequent Seams & has recorded for Cuneiform, Clean Feed, Important Records, & Tzadik. ... more

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