Raphael Weinroth-Browne - Out Of The Ether [Official Video]

BUY THIS TRACK: STREAM ON SPOTIFY: Out Of The Ether was improvised in a single unedited take. Upon recording it, I felt that the piece embodied my cellistic voice and the raw, unrefined character of my playing style. Opening with an incantatory and austere atmosphere, the cello delivers a lonely supplication which then becomes a plaintive cry. The piece’s second act is far more elemental and abstract; rapid arpeggios swirl like winds before giving way to swift runs that bring the music to a rhapsodic close, disappearing back into the same ether from which it first emerged, as elusive and transient as an undulating wave. There is something about improvisation that is difficult to define with words, but its nebulous qualities are precisely what I find most fascinating about it. The creative process involves communing with a mysterious, non-physical world and bringing back some artifact that can be shared with others. Improvisation is particularly special to me because it is the precise moment of creation, when expression is pulled like a thread out of the ether. Recorded and mixed by Dean Watson Mastered by Philip Shaw Bova Video by Andrew Robillard Filmed at The Gladstone Theatre in Ottawa, Canada See also: Kamancello (all-improvised world music duo): ​ The Visit (haunting metal-influenced cello/voice duo): ​ Musk Ox (progressive chamber folk trio): Glass Armour (progressive cinematic studio project):