Ex Uno Plures, by Geoffrey Deibel

Ex Uno Plures

by Geoffrey Deibel

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1.	New York Counterpoint (1985) 11:11	buy track
2.	Solo: For Bass Saxophone (1988) 10:08	buy track
3.	69F (2009) 05:13	buy track
4.	Karate (2001/03) 07:31	buy track
5.	Gray Faces (2011) 04:30	buy track
6.	Ali (2010) 06:04	buy track
7.	Sequenza VIIb (1969/1993) 08:45	buy track
8.	Assembly Line (2014) 07:09	buy track

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The saxophone is one of the first (and certainly most enduring) instruments produced during the Industrial Revolution. A postmodern concept invented before twentieth-century modernity took hold, the instrument was an innovation in that it combined materials from several different instrument families. This hybrid instrument yielded the power of a brass-bodied instrument, the timbral variety of winds, and the sensitivity of the strings. It was the first truly new instrumental modernist voice and fundamentally changed instrumental music performance and popular music. The instrument has often been thought of as the closest to the human voice in flexibility and character; this allowed for the progressive reinvention, one necessary to stay relevant for almost two centuries.

EX UNO PLURES (out of one comes many) refracts the paradigm
of synthesis embodied in the concept of the saxophone. This supposedly monophonic instrument becomes a tool for polyphony, multiplicity, and regeneration — all reified in different ways over the course of the album. We hear Reich’s complex layering of traditional sounds, Tostensson’s machine-like vision instrument as extension of the body, the regeneration of acoustic sound through electronic means, the unintended sonorities from a “broken” instrument, and Berio’s polyphonic fields transforming the saxophone into a truly polyphonic instrument. The saxophone is presented as the instrument of the 21st century and beyond, able to adapt itself to any musical context; out of one comes many.

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released May 5, 2022

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©℗ 2020 Blue Griffin Recording, Inc.
PO Box 15008 Lansing, Michigan 48901-5008. Phone: 517-256-2874
Produced and engineered by Sergei Kvitko.

Recorded on December 18–20, 2019, and September 2–5, 2020. at the Ballroom, Blue Griffin Studios, Lansing MI.
Photos by Gavin Peters and Sergei Kvitko.
Graphic design: Laura Grey, Vaishnavi Kumar, Molly Haig.

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Geoffrey Deibel Tallahassee, Florida

Geoffrey Deibel serves Associate Professor of Saxophone at Florida State University, and teaches at the Cortona Sessions for New Music and Great Plains Saxophone Workshop. He is a champion of new music and has taught at conservatories in Europe, Asia, and in many US Universities. He studied at Northwestern and Michigan State University. Geoff is a Yamaha/Vandoren/LeFreQue performing artist. ... more

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