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break me

by Aaron Michael Smith

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l'anamnèse (Ashot Sarkissjan) 09:43
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between fragments of touch and skin (JACK Quartet) 30:29
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two companion pieces written for my Master's degree at Boston University

one night in a loft in Paris I randomly came across a book left behind by a friend who had stayed there previously and was transporting their books internationally - that book was Barthes's "A Lover's Discourse: Fragments" which absolutely shattered my brain - it opened up the language I was looking for in thinking about memory, touch, sensitivity, and attention - I would say that these pieces were inspired by that book but writing this in 2022 I think everything I do since then has been inspired by that book - immediately after discovering the Barthes I began writing the piece for amplified string quartet

at the time I was experimenting and exploring compositional notions of chance inside of highly structured containers, the after-effects or traces of musical gestures, physical touch and sensitivity, instrumental intimacy, translation, and fragmentation

so many thanks to Ashot Sarkissjan and JACK Quartet for their time and attention
love and thanks to Georg Kári Hilmarsson & Joshua Fineberg for their help recording and editing

more info:
aaronmichaelcomp.myportfolio.com/lanamnese
aaronmichaelcomp.myportfolio.com/between-fragments-of-touch-and-skin

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released July 2, 2022

l'anamnèse
for amplified violin
recorded by Ashot Sarkissjan on 2/27/18 at CFA Hall as part of a residency at BU
composed between 9/2017 - 12/2017

between fragments of touch and skin
for amplified string quartet
recorded by JACK Quartet on 9/22/2018 at CFA Hall as part of a residency at BU
composed between 10/2015 - 9/2018

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Aaron Michael Smith (UN/NO) is a composer, violist and artist currently based in Boston, MA.  Aaron is interested in exploring the way that various practices and mediums overlap, reflect and contradict one another.  He is often engaged in collaborations with filmmakers, visual artists, philosophers and other musicians. ... more

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