{"id":3960,"date":"2025-06-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2025-06-06T11:44:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T09:44:28","slug":"barbara-hannigan-david-chalmin-electric-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/music\/barbara-hannigan-david-chalmin-electric-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Hannigan, David Chalmin \u2013 Electric Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Artist : <strong>Barbara Hannigan, David Chalmin<\/strong><br>Album : <strong>Electric Fields<\/strong><br>Label : <strong>Alpha Classics<\/strong><br>Link : <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barbarahannigan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.barbarahannigan.com\/<\/a><\/strong><br>Style : <strong>Classical<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barbara Hannigan joins forces with pianists Katia and Marielle Lab\u00e8que and producer\/musician David Chalmin for <em>Electric Fields<\/em>, an album at the frontier of contemporary classical music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In music, as in many other fields, the realization of an idea or a project is a matter of encounters and associations. Here, Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan, already a frequent partner of John Zorn, shows a certain appetite for breaking out of the rut of the contemporary classical repertoire. French pianists Katia and Marielle Lab\u00e8que are no strangers to musical adventures, as is David Chalmin, who can as easily be found behind an instrument as a console.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carried by Barbara Hannigan&#8217;s voice, this album shows the singer&#8217;s facility in mastering complex scores. She transports us to the songs of ecstasy composed by Hildegard Von Bingen, as well as avant-garde works such as Luciano Berio&#8217;s vocal exercises, or contemporary Bryce Dessner. The textures, brought to life by the synthesizers distilled by David Chalmin, are generally discreet, taking the ensemble to the threshold of ambient. However, it can happen that the electronics take precedence over the balance that holds most of the parts together, to the detriment of unity at times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contenting oneself with a voice and two pianos in no way prevents one from taking possession of a vast listening space and demonstrating great presence, as this disc seems to demonstrate. The voice is free and uninhibited, and we appreciate both the artist&#8217;s technique and that of the recording. The synthesizer adds an extra dimension, reminiscent of David Hykes&#8217; <em>Hearing Solar Winds<\/em>. The piano&#8217;s resonance and touch are just like the voice, unfettered, and help to draw us into a crystalline, brilliant world full of sparkle. Like a pop record, <em>Electric Fields<\/em> alternates energetic, gripping tracks with more soothing ones, like the reworked baroque pieces by von Bingen that open and close the album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Hannigan joins forces with pianists Katia and Marielle Lab\u00e8que and producer\/musician David Chalmin for Electric Fields, an album at the frontier of contemporary classical music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":3946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[142,140,143,141],"class_list":["post-3960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-alpha-classics","tag-barbara-hannigan","tag-classical","tag-david-chalmin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4012,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions\/4012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}