{"product_id":"occam-xxv","title":"Occam XXV","description":"\u003cp\u003eComposed by Éliane Radigue. Performed by Frédéric Blondy. Commissioned by Organ Reframed, curated by Claire M Singer. Recorded on 8 January 2020 by Daniel Halford at Union Chapel on the organ built by 'Father' Henry Willis, 1877.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2018 Organ Reframed commissioned Éliane Radigue to write her first work for organ, 'Occam Ocean XXV'. Radigue worked closely with organist Frédéric Blondy at the Église Saint Merry in Paris before transferring the piece to Union Chapel for its premiere at Organ Reframed on 13 October 2018. The recording on this compact disc was made at a private session at Union Chapel on 8 January 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOccam XXV\u003c\/i\u003e inaugurates the very special record series of works exclusively commissioned by Organ Reframed, the organ-only, one of a kind experimental music festival, carefully curated by Scottish composer\/performer and London's Union Chapel organ music director Claire M Singer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParis-born Éliane Radigue is one of the most innovative and influential living composers of all time. After working under Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry in the late 1950's\/early 60's she mainly worked with tape before developing a deep relationship with modular synthesis in the early 1970's. Over the next three decades she pushed her own conceptions of musicality forward developing a deep relationship with her ARP 2500. Through endless exploration and drawing on her personal journey as a practicing Buddhist she created an entirely new landscape of experimental sound. In the early 2000's she made an extraordinary shift into writing predominantly for acoustic instruments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOccam XXV\u003c\/i\u003e is the latest chapter of Radigue's broader series of works Occam Ocean which she has been composing in the last decade. Carefully selected by Radigue she has closely collaborated with various extremely experienced yet sensitive instrumentalists. For \u003ci\u003eOccam XXV\u003c\/i\u003e Radigue collaborated with pianist, organist, composer, improviser, artistic director of the Orchestra of New Musical Creation, Experimentation and Improvisation (ONCEIM) Frédéric Blondy, which is their second collaboration in the Occam Ocean series. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Organ Reframed","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50452355645771,"sku":"1146087","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ea6def3e-ad5b-4834-8ad1-bd6a644a3618_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727148892","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/occam-xxv","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}