Carve
Dana Jessen, bassoon


Featuring four newly commissioned works for bassoon and electronics, this album celebrates the blurred lines between composition, interpretation, and improvisation. Carved between each of the pieces are short acoustic improvisations reflecting the material used in the surrounding works. 


1 of an implacable subtraction (2015) Paula Matthusen 	 7:58
2 Carve (without reed)	 2:04
3 Points Against Fields, tombeau de Bernard Parmegiani (2014) Sam Pluta	 10:42
4 Carve (with teeth)	 1:04
5 Fireflies in Winter (2015) Peter V. Swendsen	 9:45
6 Carve (only reed)	 1:39
7 Cadenza & Degradations (2015) Kyle Bruckmann	 13:28
8 Carve (postlude)	 1:59
TOTAL TIME: 48:42


Carve your loved one’s name into a bench. Carve an obscenity on a school desk. Let your fingers pass over a stranger’s memory from the past, waiting in wood for more eyes to see.
Carve is for those who question the traditional route put before them and pursue their own path. 
Improvisation. Electronics. Bassoon.
Dana Jessen, 2016



Producer: Dana Jessen
All composers co-produced, edited, and mixed their own works
Audio Engineers: Paul Eachus and Andrew Tripp
Mastering: Paul Eachus
Album Design: Denise Burt
Photo Credits: Cover image: Rob Shenk, Tools of the Trade (CC BY-SA 2.0), reworked by Denise Burt
Inside left panel: Kevin O’Mara (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), reworked by Denise Burt
Portrait of Dana Jessen: Michel Marang  
Recorded at Oberlin Conservatory’s Clonick Hall, Oberlin, OH, on September 11, 12, 17 & 24, 2015 
and May 31, 2016.

Innova Director: Philip Blackburn
Operations Director: Chris Campbell
Publicist: Steve McPherson
Innova is supported by an endowment from the McKnight Foundation.
 
danajessen.com | paulamatthusen.com | sampluta.com | swendsen.net | kylebruckmann.com

Thanks to Paula, Sam, Peter, and Kyle for their beautiful music and ongoing friendships. To Paul Eachus and Andrew Tripp for their studio expertise. To my mentors Joe Morris, Frank Gratkowski, Wilbert de Joode, Wolter Wierbos, and Alban Wesly. To my family for their love and support. And a very special thanks to my husband, Mike, for his incredible insight, love, friendship, patience, and encouragement.

This project is supported by New Music USA