OTSEGO
Stephanie Lamprea, voice | Richard Craig, flutes | Alistair MacDonald, live electronics
Album release 5 July 2024
Stephanie Lamprea, voice | Richard Craig, flutes | Alistair MacDonald, live electronics
Album release 5 July 2024
Stephanie Lamprea - voice (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6)
Richard Craig - flutes (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6) Alistair MacDonald - live electronics (all tracks) Recorded by the artists on 26 June 2024 at Stereo in Glasgow, UK. Mixed and mastered by Alistair MacDonald Produced by Stephanie Lamprea, Richard Craig, and Alistair MacDonald Artwork by George Kampolis Album design by Stephanie Lamprea |
OTSEGO is an album of improvised voice, flute, and live electronics performed by Stephanie Lamprea, Richard Craig, and Alistair MacDonald. The album was recorded live at Stereo Glasgow on 26 June 2024. The tracks blend avian and mythological themes with fragments of Susan Fenimore Cooper's writings and Albert Roussel's music to craft curious and uncanny soundscapes.
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Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea is an architect of new sounds and expressions as a performer, recitalist, curator, and improviser, specializing in contemporary classical repertoire. Trained as an operatic coloratura, she uses her voice as a mechanism of avant-garde performance art, creating “maniacal shifts of vocal production and character… like an icepick through the skull” (Jason Eckardt). She has performed as a soloist at Roulette Intermedium, Constellation Chicago, Sound Scotland, Southbank Centre, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, National Sawdust, CCA Glasgow, the Hidden Door Festival, and Casa da Música (Porto). She has collaborated with leading new music ensembles and bands including Riot Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, the City of London Sinfonia, Sō Percussion, and Post Coal Prom Queen. www.stephanielamprea.com/
Richard Craig has a multifaceted career as teacher, performer, composer/improviser and independent researcher. He studied flute at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with Richard Blake, and later with Mario Caroli at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, France. Richard has performed with groups such as Klangforum Wien, Musikfabrik and ensembles in the UK such as Ensemble Octandre and the Riot Ensemble. As a recording artist he has released two solo discs (INWARD and VALE) on the Mètier label, as well as numerous chamber music recordings and radio broadcasts. Richard is currently Director of Performance at the University of Edinburgh. richardcraig.net/
Alistair MacDonald is a composer & performer based in Glasgow. Much of his work is collaborative; with musicians, artists and choreographers from different media and backgrounds he makes work for performance, broadcast and installation. His work encompasses field recording, interactivity and improvisation with live electronics. Recent work includes music for voice (with Stephanie Lamprea, 2023 and Taylor Wilson, 2022), film (with Kim Beveridge, 2021; with Phil Minton and Vlady Bystrov, 2018, for F.W. Murnau’s silent film Nosferatu); for dance and theatre (Reckless Sleepers, 2018-22); trumpet (Tom Poulson, St Magnus Festival 2016) and in a live electroacoustic duo, Strange Rainbow, with Scottish harp player Catriona McKay. http://alistairmacdonald.co.uk/
Richard Craig has a multifaceted career as teacher, performer, composer/improviser and independent researcher. He studied flute at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with Richard Blake, and later with Mario Caroli at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, France. Richard has performed with groups such as Klangforum Wien, Musikfabrik and ensembles in the UK such as Ensemble Octandre and the Riot Ensemble. As a recording artist he has released two solo discs (INWARD and VALE) on the Mètier label, as well as numerous chamber music recordings and radio broadcasts. Richard is currently Director of Performance at the University of Edinburgh. richardcraig.net/
Alistair MacDonald is a composer & performer based in Glasgow. Much of his work is collaborative; with musicians, artists and choreographers from different media and backgrounds he makes work for performance, broadcast and installation. His work encompasses field recording, interactivity and improvisation with live electronics. Recent work includes music for voice (with Stephanie Lamprea, 2023 and Taylor Wilson, 2022), film (with Kim Beveridge, 2021; with Phil Minton and Vlady Bystrov, 2018, for F.W. Murnau’s silent film Nosferatu); for dance and theatre (Reckless Sleepers, 2018-22); trumpet (Tom Poulson, St Magnus Festival 2016) and in a live electroacoustic duo, Strange Rainbow, with Scottish harp player Catriona McKay. http://alistairmacdonald.co.uk/
