{"product_id":"ensemble-cairn_protulan_2019","title":"Protulan","description":"While he was one of the founders and main theorists of spectral music, this aesthetic movement that advocates a return to perception, in opposition to seriality or systematic combinatorics from the previous decade, Tristan Murail has since distanced himself from the gradual and sometimes narrow processes developed in the 1970s. It is sound itself that now captures his attention, as in this new album of relatively recent works, interpreted with finesse by the Ensemble Cairn - named after the mountain markers made of piles of stones. Murail enriches his acoustic music with sound experiments born from computer-assisted composition techniques, but remains attentive, throughout this Portulan cycle, to fluidity and simplicity. Since 1998, he has been revisiting, in this \"sort of autobiography by metaphors\" - still open today - personal landmarks, places of life, music, or books: four pieces are inspired, in substance, by nature and, in form, by the impressionistic soil of Claude Debussy; three others engage with literary references, Jose Luis Borges, André Gide, Jules Verne - even the composer’s own father, Gérard Murail, whose collection of poems bears the same title as the album. (Bernard Vincken)","brand":"Ensemble Cairn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58239973982552,"sku":null,"price":24075261.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/9120040732226.jpg?v=1787438148","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/ensemble-cairn_protulan_2019","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}