ROGER REYNOLDS * WATERSHED V * MATHIAS REUMERT

Watershed V (2020)
Solo Percussion, Stereophonic, algorithmically generated "Shimmer"

Composer: Roger Reynolds

Performing Artist: Mathias Reumert

Label: Ekkozone Records, First Inversion, LLC label
Released July 2024
Date of recording: July 2024
Producer: Mathias Reumert
Recording, mix, and mastering: Sebastian Vinther Olsen
Cover: sketch by Roger Reynolds, design by Mathias Reumert
Music publisher: Wise Music Classical
Recorded at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen
With support from Statens Kunstfond

[released through Ekkozone Records / a part of First Inversion, LLC label, July 2024]

About: The title "WATERSHED” describes a series of works involving a percussionist and a complex instrumental set-up that surrounds the performer. There is a version without technological elaboration (I), one with an instrumental ensemble (III), and one with multi-channel electroacoustic cues (IV). Percussionist Mathias Reumert approached me in 2018, asking if I could consider a stereo version of the electroacoustic component, a move that would greatly enlarge the work’s dissemination. I discussed this with my technical collaborator, Jacob Sundstrom, and we devised an approach for simulating the effect of reverberation in a novel way that I called “shimmer”. In Watershed V, the dimensionality of the original is attenuated, but the work's “usefulness” is enlarged.”

–Roger Reynolds