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Evelyn Glennie

Musicien/ne

Evelyn Glennie est une percussionniste surdouée, sourde à 90 %.

Travail avec Björk

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Composition : My Spine, Oxygen

Evelyn Glennie is one of the people I’ve had the good fortune of meeting. She is an amazing percussionist, one of the most respected in the classical world. She’s the same age as me which is quite young for that field. She’s amazing.

Björk

À propos du titre Oxygen

It is very difficult to explain the feeling when you meet someone for the first time and somehow magic happens. ’Oxygen’ was the first experiment Bjork and I made back in 1995. Everything we did we recorded ; this piece, with all the pops and rattles and other unrefined noises, shows that this was a totally spontaneous effort - without ’makeup’ or doctoring of any kind. This is how I like to make music. This piece remained untitled until appearing on this album. Why ’Oxygen’ ? I haven’t the foggiest

Evelyn Glennie

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Petit tour dans l’atelier d’Evelyn Glennie qui se rappelle la composition de My Spine

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MY SPINE ’My Spine’ is from a group of pieces Bjork and myself wrote and experimented with during our initial meeting.I say ’experiment’ because that is exactly what we did in my recording studio. Bjork was seduced by huge collection of percussion instruments and what did we decide to use ? Homemade tuned car exhaust pipes ! The effect when played with four hand glockenspiel mallets portrays a raw, busy, gamelan-like sound which is in huge contrast to the sustain of Bjork’s voice. The title was derived simply from us liking the sound and feel of the words ’My Spine’. OXYGEN It is very difficult to explain the feeling when you meet someone for the first time and somehow magic happens. ’Oxygen’ was the first experiment Bjork and I made back in 1995. Everything we did we recorded ; this piece,...

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