Devolution: A Concerto for DJ and Symphony Orchestra
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Label: BMOP/Sound
Catalog #: 1022
Composer: Anthony Paul De Ritis; Performer: DJ Spooky (Turntables); Conductor: Gil Rose
Orchestra/Ensemble: Boston Modern Orchestra Project View Original Flash Website
[1] Devolution: Concerto for DJ and Symphony Orchestra, featuring DJ Spooky (Turntables)
[2] Legerdemain
[3] Chords of Dust
“Listening to Anthony Paul De Ritis’s Devolution is somewhat akin to watching a Tarsem film: The mixture of influences, references and textures is both blindingly apparent and blindingly gorgeous.”
–Olivia Giovetti, wqxr.org
”a genuinely American composer… [De Ritis’s] music lies rooted in its determination to meld science with humanity.”
–Laurence Vittes, Gramophone
“Just the premise is utterly astonishing: a live turntable jockey with a vast array of mixing, digital processing devices and effects at his disposal plays with a live symphony orchestra.”
–Daniel Coombs, Audiophile Audition
”Devolution is a musical evocation of the tactile malleability of music itself”
–Matthew Guerrieri, for New Music Box “Sounds Heard”
