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1.	Jamie Drouin - Composition with Double Line, 1934 03:53	buy track
2.	Chris Harris - New York City, 1942 03:52	buy track
3.	C Diab - Composition in Line, 1916 03:17	buy track
4.	Khyex - Composition in Red, Blue and Yellow, 1930 04:36	buy track
5.	Ross Birdwise - Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red, 1939-42 01:39	buy track
6.	Alexandra Spence - Composition with Double Line and Yellow and Grey - Composition B, 1932 03:10	buy track
7.	Lance Austin Olson - Composition No 1, 1935 03:13	buy track
8.	Tuam - Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-43 04:38	buy track
9.	PrOphecy Sun - Lozenge Composition with Four Yellow Lines, 1933 01:49	buy track
10.	Benjamin Mauch - Composition with Grid 8 - Checkerboard Composition with Dark Colours, 1919 07:11	buy track
11.	Soressa Gardner - Composition C (No III) with Red, Yellow and Blue, 1935 02:52	buy track
12.	Norm Chambers - Composition 10 (Pier and Ocean), 1915 04:34	buy track
13.	Laurie Zimmer - Composition in Colour A, 1917 02:04	buy track
14.	Connect_icut - Composition with Four Yellow Lines, 1933 04:01	buy track
15.	Sean Evans - Tableau No 2, Composition No 6, 1913 08:24	buy track
16.	Camp of Wolves - Composition 8, 1914 03:33	buy track
17.	Mount Maxwell - Lozenge with Two Lines and Blue, 1926 03:16	buy track
18.	Ian William Craig - Composition in Oval, 1913 03:46	buy track
19.	Pulsewidth - Composition in Colour A, 1917 05:41	buy track
20.	Benoit Pioulard - Composition in Oval with Colour Planes II, 1914 05:58	buy track

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THE MONDRIANS is a collaborative sound project based on the work of dutch artist and theoretician Piet Mondrian (1872-1944). A leading painter of the De Stijl movement, and outspoken proponent of what he termed 'neoplasticism' in the arts, Mondrian was one of the key figures of 20th century art. For THE MONDRIANS, twenty contemporary electronic musicians and sound artists were presented with a simple premise: reimagine the Mondrian painting of your choice as a graphic score, and rigorously interpret it. There was no right or wrong way to approach this project, only an admonition to work directly from a reproduction of the painting itself. The result is a strange and unclassifiable collection of musique concrete, microtonal electronics and ambient abstractions that allow us to contemplate, as through a distorted prism, the work of one of the 20th century's most revolutionary artists.

A key inspiration for many of the musicians involved in the early stages of this project was the following proposal: 'Imagine you have been asked to describe, in full, the spatial and chromatic aspects of this painting to a blind person using only sound.' Direct responses to this challenge can be heard in the methodical severity of works by Khyex, Chris Harris, and PrOphecy Sun, in which the chosen paintings have been approached cartographically; every chromatic and spatial detail noted and accounted for. A second branch of contributors chose to meet the project's challenge halfway, extrapolating their own musical ideas from a close reading of the painting without necessarily replicating its every move (see Ian William Craig, Norm Chambers, and Benoit Pioulard). And finally, there are those interpretations born strictly of the artist's imagination, like C. Diab's ambitious attempt to burrow inside the mindset of Mondrian as he painted 'Composition in Line, 1916' or Tuam's complex reimagining of 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' as a towering Ballardian highrise.

A painter of traditional landscapes in his youth, Mondrian would continue to claim nature as his primary inspiration until the end of his life. To discard the outward appearance of realism in favor of primary colours and vertical/horizontal lines was, for him, not a rejection of the natural world, but a step closer to what he perceived as its fundamental attributes. He dreamed of a universal aesthetic language that would one day allow artists to better communicate the spiritual unity underpinning the world around them. THE MONDRIANS engages with this utopian vision by imagining a world in which such a language had come into being, a renaissance in sensory perception allowing everyday people access to a synesthesiastic view of the world. What would such a people hear in Mondrian's work, and how would they express it? What would red, blue and yellow sound like? The question is a quixotic puzzle, and the 20 pieces contained on this compilation can no more answer it than lead become gold or 2 + 2 yield 5. But somewhere in the absurdity of the attempt lies a trace of Mondrian's dream.

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released December 11, 2018

All works composed 2017-18 for Hotham Sound Recordings.

Mastered by Joshua Stevenson at Otic Sound, Vancouver, B.C.

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