Available for pre-order here: https://sigerecords.bandcamp.com
LP version / limited to 300 copies / 100 on clear vinyl, 200 on black / housed in heavy weight tipon jacket with 18" x 24" oversized insert / art and design by Faith Coloccia.
1. Mettapatterning for Constellation
2. ))((Mettapatterning for Constellation <ll>
Mamiffer is Faith Coloccia + Aaron Turner
1. Mettapatterning for Constellation
Composition by Faith Coloccia (2016)
Orchestration and string arrangement by Eyvind Kang
Performed by Spółdzielnia Muzyczna contemporary ensemble (2017)
Małgorzata Mikulska - flute
Bartosz Sałdan, Aleksander Wnuk - percussion
Martyna Zakrzewska - piano
Paulina Woś, Barbara Mglej - violins
Gabriela Biel - viola
Jakub Gucik - cello
Mateusz Rusowicz - conductor
Aaron Turner - cassette players
Recorded by Robert Szczukiewicz (FS Audio) on 30th September 2017 in Nowohuckie Centrum Kultury, Krakow
Commissioned by and performed at 15. Sacrum Profanum Festival, curated by Krzysztof Pietraszewski
-))((- Mettapatterning for Constellation <ll>
Faith Coloccia: piano, mellotron flute, string patch, bells, cassette recordings
Aaron Turner: guitar, percussion
Jon Mueller: bells
Recorded to 4 track cassette by Faith Coloccia, 2016
Additional recording by Aaron Turner at The House of Low Culture, Vashon, WA, 2016
Artwork and design by Faith Coloccia
Score preparation by Brianna Atwell
All tracks mixed by Randall Dunn at AVAST! Seattle ,WA, fall 2017
Mastered by James Plotkin
Special thank you to Krzysztof Pietraszewski and Spółdzielnia Muzyczna contemporary ensemble.
C+P Faith Coloccia BMG/ASCAP
SIGE072
Faith Coloccia’s music as Mamiffer behaves as a living organism that feeds off its surroundings as it multiplies and evolves to live in harmony with its environment. This malleability is presented in Mamiffers’s latest record, Mettapatterning for Constellation. The album features two incarnations of a single composition by Coloccia, commissioned by the Sacrum Profanum Festival in Krakow, Poland. Side A documents the 2017 live presentation of “Mettapatterning for Constellation” as performed by the Półdzielnia Muzyczna contemporary ensemble, orchestrated by Eyvind Kang, conducted by Mateusz Rusowicz, and mixed by Randall Dunn. The B side features the initial pre-notation home recording of the composition, “))((Mettapatterning for Constellation <ll>,” as performed by Faith Coloccia, Aaron Turner, and percussionist Jon Mueller. Together the two tracks not only depict the emotional depth and textural vibrancy of Coloccia’s vision, they model the organic breadth and variability of the work. The two versions have distinct intentions and diametric harmonic spiritual relations. A perfect metaphor for Mettapatterning would be that of eukaryotic organisms: those that can live freely as single cells, but can also aggregate together to form multicellular reproductive structures, just as a lo-fi 4-track creation can evolve into its own distinct, transcribed, and orchestrated form when presented to the world.
-Brian Cook, August 2020
