{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Memory/Vision | type = Live album | artist = Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble | cover = Memory-Vision.jpg|border=yes | alt = | released = 2003 | recorded = October 2002 | venue = Norges Musikkhøgskole<br>Oslo, Norway | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 70:53 | label = ECM<br>{{small|ECM 1852}} | producer = Steve Lake | chronology = Evan Parker | prev_title = Alder Brook | prev_year = 2003 | next_title = Set | next_year = 2003 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble | type = live | prev_title = Drawn Inward | prev_year = 1999 | title = Memory/Vision | year = 2003 | next_title = The Eleventh Hour | next_year = 2005 }} }} '''''Memory/Vision''''' is a live album by the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble recorded at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo in October 2002 and released on ECM the following year.<ref name="ECM discography">[http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1800/1852.php ECM discography] accessed November 15, 2011</ref>
==Reception== {{Album ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev2score = {{Rating|4|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=1126}}</ref> | rev3 = The Guardian | rev3Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="guardian">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/oct/24/jazz.shopping1 |title=Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Memory/Vision |first=John |last=Fordham |date=October 23, 2003 |website=The Guardian |access-date=May 29, 2022}}</ref> | rev4 = All About Jazz | rev4Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="aaj">{{cite web |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/memory-vision-ecm-records-review-by-jerry-dsouza |title=Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Memory/Vision |first=Jerry |last=D'Souza |date=September 15, 2004 |website=All About Jazz |access-date=May 29, 2022}}</ref> }} The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "this is one of the most emotionally resonant works Parker has given listeners. And one hopes that such a description will not insult his brilliant mind or his aesthetic sensibilities. Wonderful."<ref name="Allmusic">Jurek, T. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/memoryvision-r688683/review Allmusic Review] accessed November 15, 2011</ref>
The authors of the ''Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' awarded the album 4 stars, and wrote: "The single continuous performance has both a monumental quality and a strong sense of process and flux, like a sculpture made of plasma rather than stone or bronze."<ref name="Penguin" />
In a review for The Guardian, John Fordham called the music "an extended piece of composition deploying some comparatively orthodox narrative notions about highs and lows, episodes of dramatic intensity and quiet reflection," and commented: "It's for a pretty specialised audience, but close followers and new converts to Parker's uncompromising creativity may well be intrigued."<ref name="guardian"/>
Chris Kelsey, writing for Jazz Times, stated: "Textures ebb and flow; slow and sparse morphs into fast and dense. The musicians are all very sensitive and reactive free improvisers, as are the sound-processing guys, for the most part."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/evan-parker-electro-acoustic-ensemble-memoryvision |title=Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Memory/Vision |first=Chris |last=Kelsey |date=October 1, 2004 |website=Jazz Times |access-date=May 29, 2022}}</ref>
The BBC's Peter Marsh wrote: "This is music that hangs in the air, sometimes vaporous, sometimes almost sculptural in its weight. Parker's structures make this a rewarding (and repeatable) experience, and the spacious, pristine production gives each sound room to breathe. Luscious, alien stuff, and utterly beautiful."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/82cz/ |title=Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Memory/Vision Review |first=Peter |last=Marsh |year=2002 |website=BBC |access-date=May 29, 2022}}</ref>
In an article for All About Jazz, Jerry D'Souza remarked: "Time and structure go through various dimensions. Structure is broken, time fragmented, in a flow that ebbs and eddies. When the machines are the end voice, the ideas that leap out in jiggles and squeals and whirs are mesmerising. There is also the strength that derives from the playing."<ref name="aaj" />
Beppe Colli of Clocks and Clouds stated: "Evan Parker has succeeded in producing a work... which could not exist without modern technology but which is not slave to it in ways that today are all-too-common on a mass market—or à la mode. A work that is aesthetically accessible while being interesting at the same time. Which, given the present times, is definitely not to be underestimated."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cloudsandclocks.net/CD_reviews/parkereae_mv_E.html |title=Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Memory/Vision |first=Beppe |last=Colli |date=November 22, 2003 |website=Clocks and Clouds |access-date=May 29, 2022}}</ref>
==Track listing== :''All compositions by Evan Parker'' # "Part 1" - 10:22 # "Part 2" - 11:18 # "Part 3" - 5:09 # "Part 4" - 13:21 # "Part 5" - 12:43 # "Part 6" - 9:10 # "Part 7" - 8:31 ==Personnel== * Evan Parker - soprano saxophone, tapes and samples * Philipp Wachsmann - violin, electronics *Agustí Fernandez - piano, prepared piano * Barry Guy - double bass * Paul Lytton - percussion, electronics *Lawrence Casserley - signal processing instrument *Joel Ryan - computer, sound-processing * Walter Prati - electronics, sound processing * Marco Vecchi - electronics, sound processing
==References== {{reflist}} {{Barry Guy}} {{Evan Parker}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Memory Vision}} Category:ECM Records live albums Category:Evan Parker live albums Category:2003 live albums