{"product_id":"reidy-jules-clerestory","title":"Reidy, Jules: Clerestory","description":"\u003cp\u003eA clerestory is an upper section of wall, most often in a church punctuated by windows. It is a powerful image for grasping this luminous new music from Jules Reidy. Light casts shadows, of course, and logics of shadowing, mirroring, and distorted reflection—of key importance for Reidy’s work as a whole—inform the sumptuous surfaces of Clerestory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Shadow Symmetric’ is a string quartet commissioned and performed by the JACK Quartet as part of their JACK Studio program. Reidy’s pairing with the quartet is felicitous: JACK are one of the preeminent new music ensembles working today, with a particular interest in just intonation, an important component of Reidy’s music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe piece’s gentle pacing and constrained dynamic range invites us to become immersed in its language of static resonance, complex beating tones, and subtle harmonic surprise. Through it, there threads a melodic theme, passed between instruments and tuning systems, almost at the threshold of perception but with the same yearning quality familiar to listeners of Reidy’s guitar works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Clerestory Windows’ offers up a distorted mirror image of the string quartet, arranged as a series of episodes that each remake the material in their own way. It begins with an arrangement of the string quartet material for MIDI strings and voices, then moves into a lyrical 12-string acoustic guitar air performed at the installation opening, before the strings from the first side reappear, now frozen and stretched into slow-moving waves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom this emerge flickering arpeggios, achieved by arranging the string quartet material for the RMI. This cues a move into more active terrain, preparing the way for the delirious final episode, where the string quartet material is re-arranged once more, eventually giving way to spacious chords shadowed by a pair of ringing sine tones.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THRILL JOCKEY RECORDS","offers":[{"title":"Indie Exclusive Metallic Gold Vinyl","offer_id":55152432152922,"sku":"FBR-14127","price":41.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":55152432185690,"sku":"FBR-14128","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1481\/5374\/files\/369_20260903_1244_121115_140_p_0790377066326_026.jpg?v=1794324469","url":"https:\/\/freebirdrecords.com\/products\/reidy-jules-clerestory","provider":"Freebird Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}