CCi Artists
EVE BEGLARIAN
It’s
all too easy to assign a post minimalist label to Eve Beglarian’s
wide-ranging body of work when, in fact, her free spirited, open minded
aesthetic refuses to be pinned down. She plays the field from chaste
counterpoint for acoustic instruments to the wildest sonic barrages where
sampled sounds run amok yet leave clear paths in their wake. She manages
both to get away with yet make a personal statement from juxtaposing
the severest Chant and the sound of two people loudly copulating, or
cobbling together brainy written-out rock and roll with the most frenzied
sections
of Beethoven’s
Missa Solemnis.
While one often finds generous dollops of whimsy and
playfulness in a Beglarian opus, serious research, preplanning and forethought
informs her creative process. For example, her recent composition Sang
(Farsi for “stone”), written for the Los
Angeles Master Chorale and acclaimed Iranian-American musicians Manoochehr
Sadeghi and Pejman Hadadi resulted from a year of intense study and close
collaboration. “When
working in other traditions,” Eve told
CCi shortly before the work’s June 2007 premiere, “I’m
no so interested in the sort of standard ‘We Are The World’ mode
that others call collaboration, which is when somebody hears a fabulous
drummer from someplace and says ‘oh
wow, that’s really cool, will you play on my CD,’ and that
fabulous drummer comes in and plays what that fabulous drummer has always
done,
but it’s merely slapped into a new context. That is less interesting
to me than when both sides take a risk. What can we both do so that
we learn from each other and stretch?”
Affiliation: ASCAP
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Last Update 11/15/2007
