Roger Reynolds
WISDOM's Sources (2024)
1. Dedicated to Asehulus
2. Dedicated to The Thirukkural (Frondsl translations)
3. Dedicated to WE Bosed
'Ō'Ō (2018)
Primary Artist(s): Irvine Arditti, violin; Ralf Ehlers, viola; Robert Aitken, flute; Yolanda Bruno, violin; Mark Lee, violin; Leana Rutt, cello
Label: Ekkozone Records
Release date: 13 March 2026
Date of recording: WISDOM’s Sources was recorded July 24-27, 2024; Ō'ō was recorded on June 21, 2018
Recording: Conrad Prebys Music Center, UC San Diego & The Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto
Editing: Josef Kucera & Mathias Reumert
Mastering: Sebastian Vinther Olsen & Mathias Reumert
About:
Imagination unspent and curiosity as keen as ever, Roger Reynolds continues to write
music that explores how sound can reflect, question, and transform experience. The
two works gathered on this album, both of recent vintage, show that his experimental
fervor remains undimmed—the fire still fed by an ever-renewing fuel.
‘Ō‘ō and WISDOM’s Sources reveal a late style not of summation but of renewed
appetite: each discovers, in sound—and, in the case of WISDOM’s Sources, in image
as well—a way of thinking through the conditions of being alive in the 21st century.
At the same time, the two works are of special importance for the composer, “in two
distinctive, quasi non-musical ways,” as he puts it. Together, they testify to the depth
of his friendships and the range of his imagination.
