{"product_id":"vear-hultgren-black-cats-blues","title":"Vear \/ Hultgren- Black Cats \u0026 Blues (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Metier catalog which includes all types of contemporary music from the sweetest post modernist song to the most challenging avant-garde works, has nothing like this totally unique piece. Composed by Craig Vear, professor of digital performance and music at de Montfort University in Leicester, England, the work (to put it very simply) is an interaction between an electronically generated score and an improvising cellist. The initial digital score sends the compositional idea to the player, who can then explore defined boundaries and materials, and introduce rerecorded sound (and in live performance, video). It's various movements are based on the 1949 book Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories by Boris Vian and aim to recreate in sound the imaginative realm created by the book, influenced also by jazz and the esoteric aesthetic of 'pataphysics. Vear's work has been described as 'pioneering' and 'hugely exciting'. The work was composed between 2014 and 2018 and is dedicated to Rick O'Donnell and Anna Lum. Cellist Craig Hultgren is a major figure in American new music with over 300 works written for him. After more than 30 years with the Alabama Symphony he now works as a farmer-cellist in Iowa. He has taught in several fine music schools and is a performer of the highest caliber.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack Cats And Blues: I. The Plumber\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack Cats And Blues: II. Pins And Needles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack Cats And Blues: III. Blues For A Black Cat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack Cats And Blues: IV. Cancer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack Cats And Blues: V. Dead Fish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack Cats And Blues: VI. Journey To Khonostrov\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack Cats And Blues: VII. Blue Fairy Tale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack Cats And Blues: VIII. Fog\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack Cats And Blues: IX. Good Students\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack Cats And Blues: X. One Way Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eUPC \u0026gt; 809730859427\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormat \u0026gt; New CD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabel \u0026gt; Metier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShop online at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46982424789213,"sku":"809730859427","price":138.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3713005-2508089.jpg?v=1762923434","url":"https:\/\/darksiderecords.myshopify.com\/zh-cn\/products\/vear-hultgren-black-cats-blues","provider":"Darkside Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}