Various Artists - Adam Mirza: Partial Knowledge (2024) Hi-Res

Composer Adam Mirza’s first solo portrait album, Partial Knowledge, features chamber works written between 2006 and 2022, in performances by loadbang, Unheard-of//Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, Bent Frequency Duo Project, Amorsima Trio, Alice Teyssier, Josh Modney, Cory Smythe, and Olivia De Prato. In these pieces, Mirza explores the ways in which chamber works are reflective of the collective merging of individual perspectives, informed by their role in the whole, but in other ways shaped by their unique perspective. To further facilitate this paradigm, Mirza employs unsynchronized parts, removing form as an imposed, external force, and instead allowing it to unfold as a circumstantial manifestation of how the individual parts are executed. In some pieces, Mirza includes live electronics, field recordings, and spoken text as other elements that complicate and enrich the real time dialogue that occurs between various parameters in the music.