SPUN, by Sarah Saviet

SPUN

by Sarah Saviet

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1.	The Su Song Star Map by Liza Lim 13:20	buy track
2.	Falter by Lisa Streich 08:05	buy track
3.	Wolke über Bäumen by Evan Johnson 16:23	buy track
4.	spun by Arne Gieshoff 08:51	buy track
5.	Habitual by Lawrence Dunn 12:36	buy track

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Sarah Saviet is a violinist based in Berlin who performs extensively as a soloist and ensemble musician. Her multifaceted artistic practice encompasses extensive collaborations with composers, theater and movement work, and composition.

Spun is Saviet’s debut solo album, a collection of physical and risk-taking works for solo violin. From incessant gestural retunings to barely audible wind-born phrases, these works explore the extremes of the instrument through five timbrally rich soundworlds.

In Liza Lim's The Su Song Star Map, scordatura and throaty bow utterances create a tactile and sensual environment, while Lisa Streich's Falter instructs the performer to ‘be a lepidoptera' (moth or butterfly) and barely graze the strings. Evan Johnson's Wolke über Bäumen played with gut strings and baroque bow involves constant re-tuning of the instrument, giving rise to fascinating inconsistencies and artefacts. The most overtly virtuosic work on the album, Arne Geishoff's spun features bursts of flourishing melodies and sparks of fragmented passages. Lawrence Dunn's Habitual offers an introspective resolution to the album, and focuses on a private expression of an inner song.

This release showcases the development and realisation of five distinct solo pieces, and exemplifies a significant aspect of Saviet's practice - the process of long-term collaborative relationships with composers through and beyond these solo works.

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released August 4, 2023

Sarah Saviet, violin
Recording engineers Moritz Bergfeld (1, 2, 5) and Aaron Holloway-Nahum (3,4)
Editing, mixing and mastering by Aaron Holloway-Nahum
Cover photo by Camille Blake

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