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Syncope

from I Went This Way by Rachel Musson

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"Syncope" draws its title and aesthetic inspiration from Catherine Clément's book, 'Syncope: The Philosophy of Rapture,' representing a performer-centric experience of improvisation, attempting to translate the transporting sense of music that Rachel Musson has long felt when making it. As a meta-commentary on musical production, the text on this track explores the route of escape that improvisation offers the performer, allowing musicians to lose the strictures of rules, notation and fixed time to an unknown space where time expands. In this liminal and free-form space, the performer can pursue amorphous desires and lose themselves in the act of making music. Musson, who has been a masterful improviser throughout her musical career emphasizes the transporting sense of improvisation in her work, wherein “practicing and playing music regularly takes me to a place that I am rarely able to otherwise find in daily life, and one of music's great joys is being able to journey to that space with other improvising musicians.” Ironically, this track is one of the most composed on the record, offering a symbolic representation of the idea rather an embodiment of it, but the notions of rupture and rapture echo throughout the text and in the diverging time signatures played by the strings, suggesting the experience of the music as much as the music itself.

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from I Went This Way, released October 23, 2020

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