Eric Whitacre: Eternity in an Hour LP + Signed Art Card
Eric Whitacre presents his next album, Eternity in an Hour, a 60-minute work inspired by William Blake’s poem, Auguries of Innocence. Eric conducts the work which combines his first love of electronica and synthesisers, with his choir, the Eric Whitacre Singers, strings and piano. This album explores the connection between the opening line “To see a world in a grain of sand” and granular synthesis. Eric even ‘grainified’ the poetry, taking slivers of each line for each movement, where only those words are sung. Eternity in an Hour is a culmination of Eric’s life as a musician. Identifying as a long time ‘synth nerd’, Eric uses the raw, mystical sound of the Lyra-8 synthesiser, alongside a Tasacm 424 tape recorder, whilst playing all the piano parts on his grandmother’s 125-year-old piano, the sound of his childhood. The second half of the album (available on the digital and CD formats) is Auguries of Innocence – a collection of ambient remixes based on Eternity in an Hour, featuring artists such as IDRA, Jess Gillam, and Elin Piel.
Eric created this lithograph inspired by the 'emotional architecture’ sketch of Eternity in an Hour. The emotional architecture is a process that Eric goes through before writing a note of the music to design the emotional journey for the audience. Each circle represents one of the movements of the piece, and was the inspiration for the album artwork. Every lithograph is hand-signed by Eric and is printed on onto 550 gsm Recycled Uncoated card. (edited)
Tracklist:
Eternity in an Hour
I. To See a World
II. In a Grain of Sand
III. And a Heaven
IV. In a Wild Flower
V. Hold Infinity
VI. In the Palm of Your Hand
VII. And Eternity
VIII. In an Hour
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