Description
The first release to document the solo cello work of musician and composer Lucy Railton, the 40-minute composition Blue Veil recorded at glise du Saint-Esprit in Paris invites listeners into the realm of precision-tuned states of resonance: states made manifest through Railtons careful traversal of her cello’s most subtle acoustic characteristics as they harmonically interlock with minds embodied modalities of attention and imagination.
Blue Veil arises out of, is sustained in and finally dissolves back into Railtons momentary presence with her intimate connection to the cello, a way of hearing that allows for a deeper engagement with harmonic resonance, one that opens a space for immediate encounters of mind and sound.
Railtons exploratory practice of harmonic perception emerges from a focus on the physical qualities of intervallic and chordal sounds, their textural qualities, degrees of friction, and inner pulsations. Composing in the moment guided by resonances within the cellos body, her own, and their shared vibrational space, Railton moves through Blue Veil by giving sounds what they ask for: sounds of pure texture manifesting as a move through temporal transparency, sounds of rough texture marking regions of dimensionally dense space.
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