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Rajesh Mehta
Reconfigurations

Album DE 2000 on between the lines label
Jazz and Classical (Free Jazz, Contemporary)

"I've been preoccupied with that question since my earliest days in Calcutta. Couldn't avoid it in that environment - population statistics pressed all around , the sheer density of sensory impressions and happenings was awesome. But there were many other takes on number. Number mysticism pervaded daily life: from the number of repetitions of a mantra before one went to sleep, to the collective obsession with astrological calculations, and even the X number of hours or days that one had to fast. Of course, mastering numbers and their properties was also a sport: how facile one could play and manipulate them - a prevalent game. However, I've been allured by the poetic dimension in mathematics. Numbers have always been animated, numinous entities for me ... possessing a snake like charm. Reconfigurations is a reflection of that ongoing affair I have woth number and mathematics and their relationship to music. The organization of the extended piece divieded invot three parts was created by the application of a self-designed pattern generating tool. The resulting graphiec score visualizes the dialectic between the micro-level metric material and the sonic regions defined by similar patterns which govern the macro-form of the entire piece. The structure I provided within which the musicians had to navigate reveals a certain act of mathematical persuasion on my part- but that was the extent of it. These creative musicians filled this skeletal architecture with the meat of their personal languages and imaginations yielding the "mehta-metric" result I had hoped for." Berlin, August 2000 Recorded at Traumton Studios, Berlin, June 22nd and 23rd, 2000 Mixed and mastered at True Muze Studios, Hamburg, August 24th and 25th, 2000 Total Time 53:05 ℗ & © between the lines 2000 · Made in EC between the lines GmbH & Co. oHG · Westendstrasse 24 · D-60325 Frankfurt/Main · Germany This work has been made possible with the support of Deutsche Structured Finance Packaging: 6 panel cardboard sleeve

Musicians

	Rajesh Mehta tr, *1964 US trumpet, composed by, liner notes, trumpet, slide, bass, hybrid, extensions, album by
	Vlatko Kuçan ts, ss, *1963 BA clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, melodica, mixed by, mastered by
	Peter Niklas Wilson cb, 1957-2003 DE double bass
	The Mehta-Metric Ensemble ensemble
	Ray Kaczynski dr, perc, *1960 DE percussion
	Aleks Kolkowski vn, vl, *1959 GB stroh violin, viola

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