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Proxemic Studies: Volume I
Mike McCormick
Label: Smeik
Released: 2020
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Tracks
triptych: I; alvorada; in|takt; triptych: II; madness; moment: us; delicate matters; triptych: III; isaac
Personnel
Mike McCormick
guitarAdditional Personnel / Information
Laura Swankey: voice; Emily Denison: trumpet; Mike McCormick: electric guitar; Knut Kvifte Nesheim: drum kit, vibraphone
Album Description
The Proxemics Studies are a collection of songs that emerged from Mike McCormick’s exploration of intimate space in its various manifestations. In the summer of 2016, McCormick decided to address his performative limitations by composing a set of personalized technical studies for the electric guitar. Exploring the physical and practical distance between him and his instrument encouraged him to examine other “distances” in various aspects of his life. This lead him to compile a collection of saved letters, emails, and electronic messages sent to him from partners with whom he had been previously intimately involved in order to examine the emotional “spaces” he had created in his past. Spanning a lengthy period of time (the earliest letter is from 2009) and a variety of relationships, these correspondences reveal the complex nature of human intimacy – some messages show the unabashed beauty of unconditional love, others reveal the bitterness of heartbreak, and still others expose the volatility of passionate lust. Setting these texts to musical ideas derived from electric guitar etudes has resulted in a collection of compositions that explores the space between the guitarist and his instrumental capabilities, between the individual and his past relationships, and between the composer and his artistic output.
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