Empyrean Ensemble: “Spectral Music“

Grisey: Anubis-Nous Michael Hernandez, solo bass saxophone Debussy: Cloches à travers les feuilles Michael Seth Orland, solo piano Murail: Feuilles à travers les cloches Joanna Martin, flute | Hrabba Atladottir, violin | Michael Graham, cello Michael Seth Orland, piano Grisey: Stele for Two Bass Drums Chris Froh Vivier: Paramaribo Joanna Martin, flute | Hrabba Atladottir, violin | Michael Graham, cello Michael Seth Orland, piano Bolaños: Tessellations Joanna Martin, flute | Hrabba Atladottir, violin | Michael Graham, cello Michael Seth Orland, piano Spectral music—by composers that include Tristan Murial, Peter Eötvös, and others—heavily involves computer-aided manipulation and mathematical generation of music. Spectralism developed in the 1970s, in large part because of the Institute for Research and Coordination of Acoustic Music (IRCAM) in Paris, the Ensemble L’Itinéraire.