tolerance stacks – song I – Thomas Edison
tolerance stacks – immolate yourself on the wires
not thinking about the elephants
tolerance stacks – song II – Charles Cros
a piece that is a size that is recognised as not a size but a piece
tolerance stacks – ideogrammophone
tolerance stacks – song III – Young Man’s Fancy
industrial drive

With each composition, Annesley Black embarks courageously on a new experiment with an open future; while at the beginning of the compositional process the material can still mean many things, it gradually ceases to do so. And at some point, all ambiguities are cleared up: the piece stands. The paths that have led to this point are ultimately paradoxical: they are “immensely labyrinthine and completely logical at the same time” (Black). In their own unique way, the pieces gathered on this CD precisely document this exuberant wealth of ideas from which, in her compositional work, Annesley Black draws and which she moderates through the certainty of her aesthetic approach.

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Recordings: February 22/23, 2021, Kammermusiksaal, SWR Stuttgart (tolerance stacks); June 19, 2018, SWR Stuttgart (Not thinking about the elephants); March 9, 2021, SWR Stuttgart (a piece that is a size…); June 14, 2021, SWR Stuttgart (industrial drive).