This album presents a mis•encyclopaedia, a fascinating exploration of imperfection by composer Márcio Steuernagel.

This album presents a mis•encyclopaedia, a fascinating exploration of imperfection by composer Márcio Steuernagel. Inspired by literary figures such as Borges and Pessoa, the works embody a profound poetic fragility. The music challenges the relentless pursuit of perfection in Western traditions by embracing imperfection as a dynamic, expressive force. With sounds that emerge from experimental techniques - unpredictable by-products, fragmentary structures, and explorations of physical and sonic boundaries - Steuernagel reveals new artistic dimensions. Each piece, meticulously crafted yet open to interpretation, creates an evocative, fluid soundscape that acknowledges the fleeting, imperfect nature of existence.

Track Listing

• Kaoko Amano - meditation: ex-/ins-piration
• Stefanie Alexandra Prenn - pilgrimage: once in our hearts
• Eric Lamb - étude: trills (it shimmers, shivers: lives)
• Kaoko Amano - meditation: vibrato, trillo, coloratura (terribilis iubilatio)
• Eric Lamb - eine Melodie
• Ángela Calvo Rios - étude: multiphonics (quasi un corale, quasi Monteverdi)
• Eric Lamb - étude: over/under-blowing (bodily: a pífano dance)
• Ángela Calvo Rios - étude: registers (a bird)
• Eric Lamb - étude: different articulations (molto parlante)
• Ángela Calvo Rios - étude: repeated notes (take a digeridoo)
• Eric Lamb - eine Melodie
• Stefanie Alexandra Prenn - étude: residual sounds (molto cantabile - ma segreto!)
• Stefanie Alexandra Prenn - pilgrimage: once again in our hearts
• Eric Lamb - étude: transitions (inbetweennesses)
• Kaoko Amano - meditation: impossibly slow (present tense)
• Eric Lamb - étude: diaphonic/multiphonic (...but how many voices unsung?)
• Stefanie Alexandra Prenn - étude: non-/harmonic (uncontrolled, unknown, yet wished-for)
• Veronica Klavzar - étude: basso (battuto, feroce)
• Eric Lamb - uma melodia
• Veronica Klavzar - étude: glissandi (pasacalle)
• Stefanie Alexandra Prenn - tuning prayer
• Veronica Klavzar - étude: ostinato (ad lib, ma veloce)
• Eric Lamb - une mélodie
• Stefanie Alexandra Prenn - pilgrimage: once again in our hearts
• Veronica Klavzar - étude: classical harmonics technique (a broken lullaby)
• Eric Lamb - étude: diaphonic/multiphonic (...but how many voices unsung?)
• Ángela Calvo Rios - aria: becoming
• Stefanie Alexandra Prenn - étude: non-/harmonic (uncontrolled, unknown, yet wished-for)
• Kaoko Amano - meditation: impossible vowels (a self-sung lullaby)

Additional Details

Label: Austrian Gramophone

Genre: Contemporary Instrumental

Run Time: 67:51 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 02/07/25

UPC: 9120010288319