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There Never is No Light

by Joshua Rubin, clarinet

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1.
Mario Diaz de Leon: The Soul is the Arena (2010) 09:30
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Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms No. 12 (2006) 06:40
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Suzanne Farrin: ma dentro dove (2010) 08:33
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Ignacio Baca-Lobera: Salto Cuántico (2011) 17:37
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Joshua Rubin & Cory Smythe: Toast (2013) 04:26
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Olly Wilson: Echoes (1974) 10:42
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Joshua Rubin's debut solo recording, "There Never is No Light" (TUN 002) features landmark works representing forty years of electronic exploration in contemporary music. The album highlights music by Suzanne Farrin and Olly Wilson, newly commissioned works by New York-based composer/performer Mario Diaz de Leon and Mexican composer Ignacio Baca Lobera, alongside world-premiere recordings of computer music pioneer Mario Davidovsky and a new electroacoustic work co-composed with pianist Cory Smythe.

In his notes for the album, Rubin unifies these works by their humanized use of technology toward musical ends. Using visual artist James Turrell's early experiments with light as an analog, Rubin poses that these composers' use electronics in their music in a way that cannot exist without the performer and the listener: "There is never not light nor sound in the natural environment, but great composers (and artists like Turrell) expertly use tools to capture and manipulate it, rescuing it from a place of ambient ambiguity. Making sound into music is distinctly human; it happens at the moment that sound needs the ear it reaches."

credits

released February 10, 2014

* Joshua Rubin
clarinet and bass clarinet

* Cory Smythe
piano, track 5

Recording venues:

1, 2, 4 and 6 Oktaven Audio by Ryan Streber (Oktaven Audio)
3 SUNY Purchase, by Silas Brown (Legacy Sound)
5 Astoria Soundsmythe Studios, by Joshua Rubin (This Room)

Session producers:

2 Dan Lippel
4 Ross Karre

Mastering and mixing:
Ryan Streber

Photography:
Thomas Locke Hobbs (front and inside back covers)
Carl Gunhouse (inside front and back covers, disc)

Graphic Design:
Thomas Marquet

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Joshua Rubin, clarinet Los Angeles, California

Joshua Rubin has been praised by the New York Times as "incapable of playing an inexpressive note." He is a founding member and former Artistic Director of the International Contemporary Ensemble. He works with technologies to make electronic music easier for performers and composers, and builds software platforms to assist arts organizations that value transparency and collective management. ... more

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