ICR 003

Dominant Curve celebrates the pioneering vision of Claude Debussy and his ongoing influence on music today. Centered on a fresh and vivid interpretation of the composer’s great String Quartet in G minor, Dominant Curve also includes four like-minded works created for Brooklyn Rider within the past year by Kojiro Umezaki (Japan), Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky (Uzbekistan), Justin Messina ( Brooklyn-based composer's electro-acoustic arrangement of John Cage's "In a Landscape") and Brooklyn Rider violinist, Colin Jacobsen. The extraordinary fin de siecle world of Claude Debussy and his friendship with many well-known musicians, writers, and artists of his day serves as a model for the multi-faceted community of Brooklyn Rider. Dominant Curve honors this not only through its musical collaborations, but also by featuring Boston-based artist Lennie Peterson, whose visual responses to each of the five works on this album comprise the accompanying booklet. Dominant Curve’s eclectic sound world is deeply reflective of the signature approach of Brooklyn Rider. Like much of the quartet’s output, the album is global in its scale: traditions from France, the United States, Uzbekistan, Japan, and beyond are represented.