[TR24][OF] The TANK Center for Sonic Arts - Slow Beethoven - 2023 (Classical, Contemporary)

foobar2000 2.0 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2023-11-15 17:29:03
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Analyzed: Ludwig van Beethoven / The TANK Center for Sonic Arts: Slow Beethoven
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR10      -0.80 dB   -13.15 dB      4:23 01-Slow Beethoven Radio Mix 1
DR9       -0.71 dB   -12.29 dB      4:52 02-Slow Beethoven Radio Mix 2
DR10      -4.53 dB   -19.08 dB      5:16 03-Slow Beethoven Radio Mix 3
DR10      -0.71 dB   -13.70 dB      4:18 04-Slow Beethoven Radio Mix 4
DR9       -0.71 dB   -12.41 dB      4:15 05-Slow Beethoven Radio Mix 5
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Number of tracks:  5
Official DR value: DR10
Samplerate:        96000 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   24
Bitrate:           2595 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Lara St. John \ Violin 1
Miranda Cuckson \ Violin 2
Milan Milisavljevic \ Viola
Jeffrey Zeigler \ Cello

This unusual and beautiful work, called Slow Beethoven, is the collaboration between a string quartet and The TANK Center for Sonic Arts, a nonprofit recording studio and concert venue centered around an extremely resonant empty water tank in the high desert of northwestern Colorado.
On June 17, 2021, at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, renowned cellist Jeffrey Zeigler led three other virtuosic players in an adagio movement, the fugue from Beethoven’s String Quartet Number 14 in C-sharp minor, Opus 131. As they played, they heard the sound of their performance resonating in the profound reverb of the Tank, in which sonic impulses may sustain for up to 40 seconds.
To allow each of the lush, Ludwiggy chords to ring out and fade in the Tank, the quartet had to slow the work radically, so that this short movement, some seven minutes long in the original tempo, took more than 45 minutes for them to play. The result is otherworldly, part Beethoven and part something entirely new. The work remains true to Beethoven’s emotions in this meditation on grief, resolution, existence itself, and these feelings may even feel intensified in this slower version.
The TANK Center for Sonic Arts is an unusual arts venue, organized around a tank, literally, an empty seven-story COR-TEN steel water tank in Rangely, Colorado, discovered in the 1970's to possess extraordinary acoustic resonance, a reverberation as long and rich as any in the world.
Today the Tank is a fully-equipped recording venue and concert site, as well as a 501(c)3 nonprofit arts organization. The place has become a haven for the local music community and a unique destination for artists, sonic explorers, and curious visitors who learn to listen in a whole new way.
released April 28, 2023