Leslie Ting
What Brings You In

Out: March 1st, 2024 on people places records (PPR|045 2CD/DL)
Genres: Modern Composition, Free Improvisation, Solo Violin, Electroacoustic.

LESLIE TING — leslieting.com
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There’s very little about violinist and interdisciplinary artist Leslie Ting‘s debut album What Brings You In that is conventional, and much of that has to do with the fact that the project is so much more than just a record. The Toronto-based Ting is very much rooted in musical expression, but much of her creative output thus far has situated her playing within a larger context that draws upon elements of theatre, installation, and her experience from her former career as a practicing optometrist. What Brings You In broaches deeply personal territory: therapy, and here she enlists multiple collaborators while using interview research and personal experiences with talk therapy, hypnotherapy, dreamwork, sandplay, somatics, and reiki. Its program is presented both in stereo and as a binaural recording, the three-dimensional headphone choreography of the latter serving to map the interior worlds of its thematic content. Beginning with Linda Catlin Smith‘s beloved violin and percussion piece Dirt Road, Ting quickly veers away from the pre-composed, plunging into a spontaneous exchange with brilliant Torontonian percussionist Germaine Liu. On the third work “Sandplay” listeners hears Liu’s penchant for manipulating found objects, as she performs in (and on) an amplified sandbox, referencing the practice of sandplay therapy. She’s joined by the inimitable Matt Smith on electronics, who was also the architect of the rich binaural environments that the second disc of album inhabits. “Beholding” by acclaimed composer Rose Bolton and Important Records alumnus, metaphorically traces Bolton’s own internal transformation via the therapeutic process using electronics-augmented violin. Meanwhile Julia Mermelstein‘s “Folds in Crossings” deploys electronics in an almost orchestral manner, sometimes imparting the solo violin with an otherworldly glow, other times swallowing it an oceanic mass of sound.

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