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CHRISTOPHER CERRONE's Pulitzer-nominated
adaption of Italo Calvino's novel is now available
as a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD and
LIMITED-EDITION CD.
INVISIBLE CITIES IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD FROM:
THE LIMITED EDITION
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INVISIBLE CITIES BOX SET
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Designer Traci Larson has created a stunning limited edition CD package for The Industry Records' first release. A custom-made wooden box contains a collection of evocative postcards, with images and texts as relics of Calvino's mysterious cities. Only 500 copies available, each one signed by composer Christopher Cerrone.
“Listen to Christopher Cerrone’s ‘Invisible Cities’ on headphones,
preferably in the dark.
Your mind’s eye will fill with sonic phantoms, darting
shapes, tolling bells, snarling brass, plangent voices
and the rhythms of alien rituals.”
— Composer John Adams
" A beautiful and delicate opera. "
— Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times
Christopher Cerrone’s widely acclaimed opera, INVISIBLE CITIES, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Music, is now available as a studio recording produced, engineered, mastered, and mixed by Nick Tipp. The recording is released by The Industry, LA’s home for new and experimental opera, on its new independent record label, The Industry Records.
Adapted from Italo Calvino’s 1972 fantastical novel, Cerrone’s delicate, quiet score explores sonic qualities of decay and lushness with a haunting simplicity through the use of found objects as instruments and pre-recorded voices interweaving with live voices.
The opera imagines a meeting of the emperor Kublai Khan at the end of his life with the explorer Marco Polo. And the story depicts a host of fantastical cities that the explorer Marco Polo narrates to Kublai Khan: unreal cities of desire, of memory, of the imagination and mind.
MUSIC & LIBRETTO BY
Hailed as “a rising star” (The New Yorker), Christopher Cerrone writes music of profound intimacy and rigor. Cerrone has received awards and grants from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chamber Music America, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Opera America, the Jerome Foundation, ASCAP, and New Music USA. He was recently named to NPR’s 2011 crowd-sourced selection of young composers, “100 Composers Under 40.” In his hands, Italo Calvino’s novel becomes a deeply spiritual musical experience.
ChristopherCerrone.com
PRODUCED, ENGINEERED, MIXED & MASTERED BY
Nick Tipp is a recording engineer, mixer, and audio producer in Los Angeles. He specializes in acoustic studio recording, live recording and broadcast mixing of concerts, both acoustic and amplified.
With over 15 years of experience recording bands, ensembles and artists in an incredibly varied array of spaces. Nick seeks to create acoustic recordings that go far beyond the reality of the confines of the studio or concert hall and into the architecture of both his own mind and the imagined spaces the composer saw. NickTipp.com
CONDUCTED BY
Marc Lowenstein is the Music Director of The Industry. He has conducted the premieres of several new operas including The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth, Dice Thrown, The Scarlet Letter, The Peach Blossom Fan, and WET, and the American premieres of Schaeffer’s Loving and Aperghis’ Sextuor. He has conducted with the New York City Opera’s VOX new music festival, the Monday Evening Concert Series, Jacaranda, the Ear Unit, the Vinny Golia Ensemble, the Kadima Conservatory, the CalArts New Century Players, and Ensemble Green. He was the founder and music director of the Berkeley Contemporary Opera, a company that produced four seasons of contemporary operas.
He has been a professional whistler, plays klezmer clarinet, and he teaches theory, conducting, composition and history at CalArts.
BASED ON THE NOVEL BY ITALO CALVINO
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER YUVAL SHARON
WEBSITE & INTERACTIVE VIDEO BY DANIEL ANDERSON
GRAPHIC DESIGN & PACKAGING BY TRACI LARSON
LOGO DESIGN BY DANEL LUCAS
This recording of Invisible Cities was made possible with grants from THE COPLAND RECORDING FUND and NEW MUSIC USA. Additional support was generously provided by ELIZABETH & JUSTUS SCHLICHTING.
Microphones for recording provided by SENNHEISER.
