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Seven by Seven

by Wesley Fuller

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Time into Pieces 09:28
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Concertpiece 14:34
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The Camargo Trio 11:21
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sherds of five 10:10
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5.
Four Phases for Three 09:03
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details/lines 09:30
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phases/cycles 11:28
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Wesley Fuller (1930-2020) was no stranger to the electronic music studio. The wonderful proof is right here in these seven works spanning nearly half a lifetime. Mostly created for acoustic instruments and fixed media (formerly known as tape), they also demonstrate the evolution of electroacoustic music itself; from 1970s-era analog synthesizers housed in institutions to digital studios in the living room; from Buchlas to C-Sound.

As it turns out, this album also serves as a summation and celebration of a remarkable life in music; Wesley Fuller passed away in his 90th year as this album was going to press.

Composing for live instruments and electronic sounds has long been an adventure in acousmatic circles, and every artist approaches it differently. In Fuller’s case, neither predominates; computer and instrument establish a shared space in which to tease and converse on an equal basis:

“…the computer is being used as a composer, and it is, if you will, a kind of collaboration between composers. This is extremely important to this composer, as he does not wish to repeat a structure of an earlier piece.”

Several of the pieces have literary allusions: Jean Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers, marine biologist Sylvia Earle’s Sea Change, John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice, and Ezra Pound’s Cantos.

The listening experience plays with your head in uniquely fanciful ways, focusing on gesture, detail, shape, silent expanses. Fuller is a master of cajoling your attention and expectations. Never dense, whimsical yet dexterous, with wryly impish interjections. If these were inky brushstrokes – light and skittish as they be – they’d never repeat themselves or soak the paper.

The album is a family affair. Performers (seven of them counting the computer) include the composer’s spouse – Jacques Linder –, daughter Catherine Fuller, and other longtime friends based in New England and South Florida such as the McCormick Duo, Nancy Cirillo, and Maria Lambros. Seven by Seven is a testament to a musical life well lived, not by the numbers.

Wesley Fuller did his undergraduate work at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and graduate work at Boston University. In 1961 he was a fellow in Composition at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, where he studied with Wolfgang Fortner. In 1974 he studied computer music with Leland Smith at a summer workshop at Colgate University, and was subsequently invited back to Colgate to write a piece for piano and computer, Time Into Pieces (1976), which was premiered at the Computer Music Conference at UCSD at La Jolla in 1977. His later work for violin and computer, Concertpiece, was performed at the first International Computer Music Conference at Venice, Italy in 1982. Fuller taught and directed the Electronic Music Program at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., where his studio was one of the first of its kind on the East Coast. In 1990 the composer took an early retirement from teaching to work in his studio on the west coast of Florida.

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released March 26, 2021

1 Time into Pieces (1977) 9:28
for piano and computer
Catherine Fuller, piano

2 Concertpiece (1982) 14:34
for violin and computer
Nancy Cirillo, violin
3 The Camargo Trio (1990) 11:21
for piano, percussion and computer
Jacques Linder, piano
Robert McCormick, percussion

4 sherds of five (1994) 10:10
for computer

5 Four Phases for Three (1995) 9:03
for flute, percussion and computer
Kim McCormick, flute
Robert McCormick, percussion

6 details/lines (2006) 9:29
for computer

7 phases/cycles (2009) 11:29
for viola and computer
Maria Lambros, viola

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Wesley Fuller (1930-2020) taught and directed the Electronic Music Program at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., where his studio was one of the first of its kind on the East Coast. In 1990 the composer took an early retirement from teaching to work in his studio on the west coast of Florida. ... more

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