utp_ is the fourth collaboration between Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, performed with Ensemble Modern. Recorded live at the National Theatre in Mannheim, Germany, the work was commissioned for the city's 400th anniversary.
Reception
—Max Schaefer, The Squid's Ear
Track listing "Attack/Transition" – 7:24 "Grains" – 6:24 "Particle 1" – 6:40 "Transition" – 3:31 "Broken Line 1" – 6:32 "Plateaux 1" – 8:07 "Silence" – 6:51 "Particle 2" – 7:00 "Broken Line 2" – 6:29 "Plateaux 2/End" – 12:59
Personnel Ryuichi Sakamoto – piano, electronics Alva Noto – electronics Aaron Baird – double bass Rainer Romer – percussion Rumi Ogawa – percussion Johannes Schwarz – bassoon, contrabassoon Eva Bocker – cello Michael M. Kasper – cello John Corbett – clarinet, bass clarinet Nina Jansen – clarinet, bass clarinet Detmar Wiesner – flute, piccolo Patrick Judt – viola Yuval Gotlibovich – viola
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