Garden of Diverging Paths

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1.	Taylor Brook: El Jardin De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan I. Altercation 03:58	buy track
2.	Taylor Brook: El Jardin De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan II. Pedals 04:29	buy track
3.	Taylor Brook: El Jardin De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan III. Strumming 04:19	buy track
4.	Taylor Brook: El Jardin De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan IV. Following 04:33	buy track
5.	Taylor Brook: El Jardin De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan V. Lament 02:14	buy track
6.	Taylor Brook: El Jardin De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan VI. Coils 03:10	buy track
7.	Andrew Greenwald: A Thing is a Hole in a Thing it is Not 10:53	buy track
8.	Kate Soper: Nadja I. Fatima 08:15	buy track
9.	Kate Soper: Nadja II. Echo 08:36	buy track
10.	Kate Soper: Nadja III. Nadja 07:58	buy track

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The album’s title track, Taylor Brook’s El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan (The Garden of Diverging Paths), takes its name from a short story by the Argentinian magic realist Jorge Luis Borges. Brook explores Borges’s idea of alternative histories, creating six movements based on musical histories that could have been. He imagines worlds where musical evolution made slightly different turns, forever altering fundamental musical concepts of tuning and playing styles.
Andrew Greenwald’s A thing is a hole in a thing it is not borrows the title from a dictum by the American minimalist artist Carl Andre. Greenwald, a member of the composer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse, writes music of extreme complexity and timbral variety. In “A thing is a hole in a thing it is not”, Greenwald creates a kaleidoscope of choked bow sounds, fragile string harmonics, and startling silences.
In the album’s final work, composer/soprano Kate Soper joins Mivos for Nadja, a three song cycle which sets texts by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ovid, and André Breton. Soper, a co-director, performer, and composer with New York’s Wet Ink Ensemble, links these texts through their common focus: feminine love and desire. Similar to such previous works as “Cipher” for soprano and violin or “Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say” for soprano and flute, Soper masterfully blurs the traditional lines between vocalists and instrumentalists, sharing the dramatic role with her string-playing colleagues.

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released June 10, 2016

All tracks recorded and produced by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio

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Mivos Quartet is dedicated advancing & performing new music in all its variety to diverse audiences worldwide. The quartet commissions & premieres new repertoire for string quartet, working closely with composers over extended time periods, treating each new piece as a true collaboration. Mivos regularly collaborates with guest artists, presents multi-media projects, and performs improvised music. ... more

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