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Nobody's

from Hazy Heart Pump by Ted Hearne

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NOBODY'S
notes by Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti

Nobody’s plays with the refraction and reception of American folk music. Inspired by Fluxus musician Henry Flynt and his avant-garde approach to Appalachian fiddle playing, Nobody’s freezes a few referential patterns and gestures, stitching them into an obsessively repetitive and dizzying form.

While the version on this album is played by violist Diana Wade, the work was originally commissioned by violinist Nicholas DiEugenio. In personal correspondence, Nick wrote to me:

I commissioned Ted to write a piece for solo violin in 2009 as part of a collaboration with quilting artist Janet Stafford and the Quilts of Valor initiative at the Wounded Warrior Project in San Antonio, TX. At that time, I was interested in bringing together various threads of my own life; four of my brothers have served at various points as officers in the US military, my mother is a quilter, and I was excited about what my friend and colleague Ted Hearne might hear in the patterns, textures, and colors of Janet’s work. I’m grateful and moved to have given its premiere at the Brooke Army Medical Center alongside Ms. Stafford’s quilt.

Ted takes the idea of quilting patterns—blocks of material overlaid with details in how they are stitched together—to structure Nobody’s. Elements of bluegrass violin playing such as movement over open string drones and repeated melodic gestures are treated as blocks of material. The player is asked to stamp their feet as percussion in time with these gestures, as a quilting needle holding the patterns together.

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from Hazy Heart Pump, released October 25, 2019
Diana Wade, viola

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Ted Hearne Los Angeles, California

Ted Hearne is a composer, singer and bandleader.

The New York Times has praised. Hearne for his "tough edge and wildness of spirit," and "topical, politically sharp-edged works." Pitchfork called Hearne's work "some of the most expressive socially engaged music in recent memory -- from any genre." ... more

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