Annesley Black: Things That Didn't Work the First Time

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.