{"id":23745,"date":"2023-11-29T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=23745"},"modified":"2023-11-30T23:00:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T23:00:14","slug":"atomos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/11\/29\/atomos\/","title":{"rendered":"Atomos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Winged Victory For The Sullen (2011) \/ Atomos (2014) \/ The Undivided Five (2019) \/ Invisible Cities (2021).<\/em><\/p>\n

A quartet of albums by A Winged Victory For The Sullen<\/a> (Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O’Halloran) that have been regular visitors to my CD player over the past couple of weeks, especially the second one Atomos<\/em>. Wiltzie and O’Halloran have been active as A Winged Victory For The Sullen since 2011 but their discography is a small one so I’ve been doing my usual thing of looking around for lengthy live recordings to avoid over-playing the studio albums. What you have here are four different performances of Atomos<\/em>, most of which don’t vary much on the visual side but, for three of them at least, music is the primary concern.<\/p>\n

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Atomos<\/em><\/a> (2014).
\nThe music was originally commissioned by Wayne McGregor as a score for a dance piece so I was pleased to find a recording of the whole thing at McGregor’s Vimeo channel. Atomos<\/em> works well enough as a standalone composition but seeing it presented like this throws a new light on the music. This is also the only place you can hear Atomos IV<\/em> which for some reason is missing from the CD and vinyl releases.<\/p>\n

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Boiler Room, Barbican, London<\/a> (2014).
\nBoiler Room concerts are always good value, being long sets, professionally filmed and recorded.<\/p>\n

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Fl\u00e8che d’Or, Paris<\/a> (2014).
\nA performance filmed in a smaller venue with a single camera. The camera-work is from the amateur “hosepiping” school but the sound is excellent and you get a lot of close shots of the string players.<\/p>\n

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BBC Proms<\/a> (2015).
\nMary Anne Hobbs presents the group at the cavernous Royal Albert Hall, together with a performance by pianist Nils Frahm who, at the time, was sharing a label with AWVFTS. A few of Wayne McGregor’s dancers also appear in this one. Half of the session is devoted to Frahm but he’s very good so it’s worth staying with.<\/p>\n

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A Winged Victory For The Sullen (2011) \/ Atomos (2014) \/ The Undivided Five (2019) \/ Invisible Cities (2021). A quartet of albums by A Winged Victory For The Sullen (Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O’Halloran) that have been regular visitors to my CD player over the past couple of weeks, especially the second one Atomos. … Continue reading “Atomos”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3],"tags":[11239,11281,11282,8909,4340,13195],"class_list":["post-23745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance","category-music","tag-a-winged-victory-for-the-sullen","tag-adam-wiltzie","tag-dustin-ohalloran","tag-mary-anne-hobbs","tag-nils-frahm","tag-wayne-mcgregor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sq7rV-atomos","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}