autoschediasm |atrito-afeito 010

Pour ceux qui suivent le violoniste alto Ernesto Rodrigues, c’est l’occasion de l’écouter dans une dimension esthétique  différente par rapport à ses enregistrements « lower case / réductionnistes » publiés sur son label Creative Sources : sa remarquable maîtrise sotto voce est illustrée ici dans le cadre d’une musique libre jouée avec plus de possibilités sonores, vitesse, énergie, etc... Au piano, la remarquable pianiste canadienne Karoline Leblanc qui dirige aussi le label atrito - afeito et à la contrebasse Nicolas Caiola, lui aussi canadien et membre insigne du trio In the Sea avec Tristan Honsinger et Josh Zubot. Commençant en puissance, la première improvisation (Part 1 21 :26) évolue vers un jeu raffiné, la pianiste intervenant dans la table d’harmonie et le contrebassiste ponctuant le trilogue d’une main sûre. Le violon alto étire les sonorités en faisant miroiter les timbres de ses frottements délicats dans un tournoiement énergique aux cadences renouvelées. Vers la quatorzième minute, le clavier se soulève et emporte les cordistes dans une sarabande animée, orchestrale qui culmine dans des grondements dans les graves. Le contrebassiste pousse le trio avec ses doigts puissants et des vibrations (charlie) hadeniennes. Un bel enchaînement. La Part 2 s’entame dans un questionnement de la matière sonore, les vibrations des cordes du piano actionnées (frappes, frottements furtifs, frictions éthérées) dans la table d’harmonie auquel répondent des timbres délicats de l’alto (viola) traité de manière ingénieuse et originale. D’un état d’apesanteur attentiste, s’échafaude une construction sonore sombre basée sur un dialogue sensible d’effets sonores maîtrisés dont les affects convergent avec une belle finesse. Par la suite, on découvre un bruitisme minimaliste et expressif (Part 3  9 :13), avec une conclusion enlevée qui renvoie à l’atmosphère animée de la Part 1. Cette expressivité est due au talent des improvisateurs qui savent faire « parler » leurs instruments dans une démarche « réductionniste ». À noter la maîtrise du toucher de la pianiste dans les cadences qui clôturent l’album. C’est en tout point remarquable et les trois Parties offrent un panorama de plusieurs  états de l’improvisation libre avec une grande cohérence. Le contrebassiste Nicolas Caloia s’intègre parfaitement dans l’ensemble avec une belle sensibilité et un goût du détail, chose essentielle dans la pratique d’Ernesto Rodrigues. De la vraie musique improvisée aboutie, assumée qui rassemble trois sensibilités – expériences différentes pour célébrer l’écoute mutuelle active. Une belle production de Karoline Leblanc, une artiste à suivre à la trace.. Jean-Michel van Schouwburg (Orynx)

This powerful new disc from Karoline LeBlanc, Ernesto Rodrigues and Nicolas Caloia is true to its title. Autoschediasm isn’t just a synonym for improv. According to Oxford, its use suggests “something done on the spur of the moment or without preparation; a hasty improvisation.”
It is certainly all of that. This is Cecil Taylor-level intense. Times three.
The album feature Karoline Leblanc on piano, Ernesto Rodrigues on viola and Nicolas Caloia on double bass. Leblanc and Caloia are both Canadians. Rodrigues, who brings the most extensive discography to the project, was born in Lisbon, Portugal.
Leblanc earned a reputation for herself as a concert pianist in the 1990s, premiering a number of Canadian composers’ work. As the decade wore on, she found herself drawn to less structured music. Since 1998, Leblanc has been best known for her complex improv style.
In addition to being a respected double bassist, Caloia is a composer, band leader and artistic director of the Montreal production company Musique rayonnante. He composes and performs with both chamber ensembles and orchestras.
While Rodrigues is clearly gracious enough to place himself second on this album’s bill, he is the group’s main attraction.
His 40-year career has earned him a following that includes lovers of contemporary, free jazz and other improvisational music. An accomplished violinist and violist, Rodrigues says electronic music was a major inspiration early in his career. He’s known to leverage instrument preparations and micro-tuning in his work.
All of the performers shine on this exhilarating three-part disc. Its range extends from quiet intensity to hang-on-to-your-hat. Remarkably though, it never overwhelms. The performances are entirely complementary to one another. autoschediasm is the kind of recording that makes us optimistic about the future of classical music. Kevin Press (Badd Press)

A release from the trio of pianist Karoline Leblanc and double bassist Nicolas Caloia, both of Montreal, and Portuguese violist Ernesto Rodrigues, Autoschediasm, recorded in June at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal, is an example of discerningly improvised timbral polyphony. From the first instant Leblanc, Caloia and Rodrigues reveals themselves to be possessed of a fine collective chemistry based on keen listening and sensitive responsiveness. Each leaves adequate room for the others’ instruments to breathe and to sound; their music is the product of what appears to be an unforced, natural rapport. As instrumentalists, all three are primarily colorists working with the full palettes that piano, double bass and viola make possible. The group’s fluency in handling color is especially evident on the second track, an exploration of space and tone. The strings are particularly creative here, with Rodrigues spinning out a full spectrum of unpitched sounds against Caloia’s harmonics, plucked and struck notes, and pressure bowing. Leblanc’s discreet interventions serve as the keystone holding Rodrigues’s and Caloia’s centripetal forces in place. By contrast, on the first piece the trio craft a long but coherent improvisation on the basis of skillfully handled dynamics and a seamless blend of conventional and extended techniques. Leblanc is a deft player, playing inside and outside the piano as needed, and alternating lead and support–or simply staying silent–when the collective sound seems to demand it. Caloia gets a robust sound and provides a firm grounding with his powerful mid and lower registers; Rodrigues’s sense of texture comes out nicely in his use of rapidly bowed layers or plucked and tapped points of sound. Daniel Barbiero (Avant Music News)

Kontynuujemy w?tek improwizacji, tworzonej z du?? rozwag? I odpowiedzialno?ci? za pojedynczy d?wi?k. Przenosimy si? do Montrealu, w scenie tamtejszego Konserwatorium Muzycznego melduj? si?, w roli gospodarzy - Karoline Leblanc na fortepianie, tak?e preparowanym oraz Nicolas Caloia na kontrabasie, a w roli go?cia – Ernesto Rodrigues na altówce, przy okazji warto?ciowy kontynuator w?tku iberyjskiego dzisiejszej zbiorówki. Na p?yt? sk?adaj? si? trzy w?tki - najd?u?szy, krótszy i najkrótszy. Ca?o??, zarejestrowana tego lata, trwa niespe?na trzy kwadranse.

Pierwsza opowie??, stanowi?ca niemal po?ow? nagrania, up?ywa nam na wywa?onej, improwizowanej kameralistyce. Szumi?ce, chwilami wr?cz taneczne pasa?e na strunach altówki, kontrabas traktowany naprzemiennie pizzicato i arco, wreszcie skupiona pianistyka na klawiszach. Wszystko odbywa si? w atmosferze ?wietnej komunikacji, jakakolwiek akcja nie pozostaje bez reakcji. Liryka i dynamika, szeroki wachlarz wra?e? estetycznych. Szczególnie urokliwe chwile, to 11-13 minuta, gdy muzycy decyduj? si? na filigranowe rozmowy z akcentami preparacji na fortepianie i altówce, a tak?e chamber bowed bass tu? pod nimi. Pod koniec trio dzieli si? na nast?puj?ce po sobie duety, które ubarwiaj? ca?? narracj?. Precyzja, styl, dystynkcja, to elementy konstytuuj?ce jako?? tego nagrania.

Dwie krótsze improwizacje bardziej stawiaj? na sonorystyk?, zmienno?? akcji i moc intryguj?cych inspiracji ze strony ka?dego z muzyków. W drugim fragmencie smakowity jest moment, gdy ma?e gierki tocz? si? niemal na poziomie pod?ogi, cisza wokó? skwierczy, a muzycy stawiaj? na stylowe zaniechanie i przeurocze szuranie po strunach, tak?e na dnie fortepianu. Jeszcze atrakcyjniejsza akustycznie zdaje si? by? fina?owa opowie??. Szumi?ca altówka, kontrabas, który trzeszczy niczym stara szafa w samym ?rodku ciszy. Molekularna zabawa w wy??cznie udane koincydencje. Na ostatniej prostej muzycy czyni? ciekaw? p?tl? narracyjn? i wracaj? do kameralistycznej estetyki pocz?tku nagrania, czyli free chamber with meta jazz roots! Andrzej Nowak (Spontaneous Music Tribune)

“Autoschediasm” was released by “atrito-afeito” this year. Album was recorded by Karoline Leblanc (piano), Ernesto Rodrigues (viola) and Nicolas Caloia (double bass). These three musicians are interesting and creative jazz masters. Each of them has a new conception of avant-garde jazz. It’s formed by fresh ideas, innovative point of  view and wide imagination. Musicians like to make evocative musical decisions, inventive and experimental playing techniques, exotic combos, eclectic stylistic pairs and produce dozens of weird timbres. Their music is based on synthesis of avant-garde and experimental jazz, free improvisation and contemporary academical music. The music is filled with dynamic and rapid mood, who is contrasting with subtle, silent and peeaceful excerpts. The musicians are famous in avant-garde jazz scene – they are collaborating with numerous of other talented and interesting jazz stars. Together they create vivid, multi-colorful and bright sound.
“Autoschediasm” is filled with wide range playing techniques, interesting expressions and timbres. The music is somewhere between contemporary academical and free improvisation. The basics of avant-garde jazz are used here as the basic of whole musical pattern. It’s the main and the most important element of all – wild, free, subtle or dynamic collective improvisations are the main parts of each improvisation. The music is based on free and abstract musical pattern, who also is organic, multi-layed and polyphonic. Variable and dynamic rhythmic, modern harmony, rich musical language, intensive and impressive instrumentation, dozens of different layers, who are joined together – all these elements are interesting and brightly color whole musical pattern. The main idea of this album is to produce fresh, innovative and interesting sound. Musicians have a huge arsenal of instrumentation and expressions to do it. They manage to create fascinating and moving solos, impressive and roaring blow outs, vivid, remarkable and free improvisations, blowing, dizzy and wild passages, special effects and other elements. All these elements are gently fused together in one place. The music is based on different composing techniques – musicians have their own ways and fuse them with very well-known tendencies ofmodernism and contemporary academical music. Puantilism, repetitive rhythmic and melodic series, minimalism and post-minimalism, serialism, conrete music, ambient and other similar ways of composing are used here. All these elements make a strong relation with academical music. The musicians have a wonderful and precise playing technique – they can subtly and naturally passe through different moods, combine them without any effort or force and produce wide range of new and interesting timbres. The sound experiments, expansion of playing abilities and technical opportunities, search of new timbres are the main priorities of the musicians. They are dedicated to create free and evocative avant-garde jazz – the willing to form and keep stable, remarkable and attractive melodic line is less important for them. Music is filled with dozens of different tunes, timbres, expressions, pairs and combos – it makes exotic, warm, bright, expressive, moving, attractive, or – aggressive, abandoned, angry and odd sound with all its colors and tunes. Karoline Leblanch is a great pianist. She likes to fuse together uncompairable playing techniques, manners and episodes. Her improvisations are filled with furious, dizzy and aggressive rhythms, repetitive and turbulent series, dizzy, gentle and flowing passages, vivacious melodies, strange timbres and passionate glissando. These elements contain the most effective and moving pieces of her improvisations. Ernesto Rodrigues is an experienced and innovative violist. His music is bright, has rich and wide musical language. It’s beautified with odd timbres, gorgeous sounds, crazy or weird musical decisions, ambient and deep tunes, special effects and experimental playing techniques. Moving and abstract glissando, bordering dynamics, stable tunes, repetitive rhythmic series are contrasting with bright, intense, touching and passionate solos. All improvisations of viola make a huge effort to whole album – it brings the energy, live and much more interesting sound to the compositions. The elements of contemporary academical music are used here a lot – it finds a gentle combo with other instruments and free improvisation. Nicolas Caloia’s double bass improvisations are fantastic and wild. It’s also filled with bright sounds, weird timbres, luminous solos, intense and vibrant energy explosions and deep tunes. Musician masterfully tries out huge range of different ways of playing and composing – all these elements and compounds gently go along together. Double bass and viola form and keep strong background, which is brightly illustrated by ambient tunes, vibrant and deep sounds, special effects, repetitive sessions and electronics. The music of this album has interesting, evocative and bright sound. (Avant Scena)

In casa della label canadese Atrito-Afeito, azione acustica e suoi stravolgimenti sono all'ordine del giorno.
Nel caso di questo bel live, registrato al conservatorio di Montréal, l'accento vien posto maggiormente sull'acustico.
Il piano e contrabbasso dei canadesi Karoline Leblanc e Nicolas Caloia e la viola del portoghese Ernesto Rodrigues, si esibiscono lungo il corso di tre numeri che inglobano attimi di burrasca, nervosa stasi e rapida liberazione conclusiva.
Con maggior aroma black (Cecil Taylor?) in chiusura e apertura (entrambi di reattiva e sensuale contemporaneità) e un espanso passaggio esplorativo sul corpo strumento (la seconda, strabiliante parte, tra suoni parassitari e decisa, minimale performance).
I naviganti navigano, noi seguiamo il loro ottimo percorso. Marco Carcasi (Kathodik)

Autoschediasm (the term indicates something improvised, offhand or casual) presents a three-segment collective improvisation created by Montreal-based pianist Karoline Leblanc and bassist Nicolas Caloia and Portuguese violist Ernesto Rodrigues. All are accomplished improvisers, but each brings different threads: Leblanc’s background stresses the classical avant-garde; Caloia’s career emphasizes free jazz; Rodrigues, who leads several distinct improvising orchestras in Lisbon, has championed free improvisation for over 30 years, appearing on scores of CDs.
While the title suggests something casual, the music sounds appropriate to its Conservatoire de Musique de Montreal setting, the trio bringing a high modernist discipline and precision to the work. The opening movement flows with an energy that is dense and light. Sparked initially by LeBlanc’s imaginative keyboard flights, in its later stages it settles into a churning rhythmic pattern that ignites Rodrigues’ radical virtuosity, resulting in a flurry of microtonal lines that sometimes create their own counterpart.
Offhand? Casual? The only thing that distinguishes it from composed music is the challenge of writing it down.
The second movement takes a contrasting approach, developing little sounds, arising discreetly, sometimes pointillist, at times muffled, at others percussive, a gently humming underbrush alive with detail. The final segment moves from delicate sonic events to a turbulent, vibrant world that recalls the opening, a formal motion that exaggerates a pattern evident since the early classical era. It’s an act of “autoschediasm” rich in taut attention to nuance and form. Stuart Broomer (The WholeNote)

O novo registro do selo canadense atrito-afeito apresenta um trio que grava junto pela primeira vez. Aos canadenses Karoline Leblanc (piano) e Nicolas Caloia (baixo) se junta o português  Ernesto Rodrigues (viola), em um encontro que aconteceu no Conservatoire de Musique de Montreal, em junho de 2018. A apresentação, de pouco mais de 40 minutos, se divide em três partes, apesar de ser uma peça só, autoschediasm, que dá título ao álbum. Aqui estamos no campo da improvisação livre coletiva, em que os três instrumentistas exploram vias que se completam em diálogos ora harmoniosos, ora conflitantes, podendo ir cada um a um canto distinto ou se unirem para formar um todo de coerência estética e discursiva. Músicos experientes, conseguem criar, no geral, uma peça de inventivas possibilidades, soando como um conjunto camerístico de linhas moderadas mas desafiadoras, com sonoridades que devem exibir seu melhor no ambiente de uma sala de concerto – isso fica ainda mais evidente na detalhista "Part 2" –, onde cada movimento gestual pode ser captado pelo público. Leblanc, uma das destacadas pianistas da cena contemporânea, mostra um pouco de seu melhor em "Part 3", quando duela com a viola, em empolgante desfecho a partir dos cinco minutos, que faz o registro encerrar de forma vibrante. O CD sai em edição limitada de 100 cópias numeradas. (FreeForm, FreeJazz)