Apmonia Quartet: Work by Tony Conrad, Morton Feldman, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Anthony Braxton
Apmonia Quartet performs microtonally inflected works drawing on visual language, graphic notation, and the improvisation within the contemporary experimental music context. Tony Conrad's Minor (1995), only performed once before, takes an ideosyncratic approach to extended just intonation characteristic of his minimalist works such as the landmark drone album Slapping Pythagoras. Chiyoko Szlavnics's Gradients of Detail (2021), written for Quatour Bozzini, draws on a minimal graphical line-based notation. Morton Feldman's Three Pieces for String Quartet (1956) is an earlier work prefiguring his later patterning after Turkish rugs. Finally, Anthony Braxton's Composition No. 17 (1971) utilizes the composer's unconventual visual notation informed by the radical work of the AACM and other improvisation practices.