Anthony Paul De Ritis: Electroacoustic Music
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Anthony De Ritis' music is fascinating transforming acoustic instruments into a rainbow of sound color.

Composer Anthony Paul De Ritis began studying with David Wessel at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies after returning from his studies at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau. Wessel exerted a tremendous influence on De Ritis, both as a teacher and as a person. This recording of De Ritis' music is a tribute to David Wessel.The pieces on this recording span more than 25 years. Listening to the music is captivating. Written for Western instruments or Asian instruments, the music sounds like a successful syntheses of East and West, where real-time processing devices transform the sound of acoustic instruments into a rainbow of sound colors. Having received a thorough Western education and then traveled the world, Anthony Paul De Ritis has come up with a music that is far more than the sum of its parts -- music that is imaginative and a wonderful balance of tone colors.
Contents:
Anthony Paul De Ritis, composer
Tangled Impressions
Vicky Chow, piano

Anthony Paul De Ritis, composer
Plum Blossoms
Xiao-Fen Min, pipa

Anthony Paul De Ritis, composer
Shui. Life
Zhantao Lin, erhu

Anthony Paul De Ritis, composer
Tine Curve Preludes
Jennifer Hymer, kalimba

Anthony Paul De Ritis, composer
Five Movements for Piri
Kang Gamin, piri

Anthony Paul De Ritis, composer
Leo
Vicky Chow, piano

Anthony Paul De Ritis, composer
Erhu-Flute
Orlando Cela, flute

Anthony Paul De Ritis, composer
Elegguá 1
Bill Lowe, trombone; Anthony Paul De Ritis, laptop

Anthony Paul De Ritis, composer
Five Moods
Amy Advocat, Bohlen-Pierce clarinet

Anthony Paul De Ritis, composer
Sheng
Patrick Owen, cello; Jianbing Hu, sheng

Anthony Paul De Ritis, composer
Filters
Demetrius Spaneas, saxophone
Review:
"When synthesizers first started really coming on the scene in the 1960s and 1970s, one of the reactions against them was rooted in the concern that they would take the place of analog and acoustic instruments. But to me, what always made synthesizers interesting wasn’t how good they were at imitating other instruments, but the enormous variety of sounds they could create that couldn’t possibly be made by any other instrument. And when synthesizers actually interact with acoustic instruments–well, the sky’s the limit. In the mid- to late-20th century, some of the most interesting avant-garde music consisted of exactly such interactions, and over the past 25 years composer Anthony Paul De Ritis has continued developing that tradition. This disc brings together a large and varied assortment of electroacoustic pieces for such instruments as piano, alto saxophone, kalimba, trombone, and Chinese instruments like the erhu, pipa, and sheng. The music is sometimes whimsical and sometimes stark, and always interesting." (CD Hot List)