Experimental
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This extraordinary new disc from Antonella EYE Porcelluzzi & Deaf Society stands out for both its severe modernism and warm embrace of historical figures Mina Loy and Saint Teresa of Avila. Porcelluzzi reads both authors over the course of the disc’s five parts, in addition to her own writing. She’s chosen two fascinating historical figures.…
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This powerful new disc from Karoline LeBlanc, Ernesto Rodrigues and Nicolas Caloia is true to its title. Autoschediasm isn’t just a synonym for improv. According to Oxford, its use suggests “something done on the spur of the moment or without preparation; a hasty improvisation.” It is certainly all of that. This is Cecil Taylor-level intense.…
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A pair of lengthy recordings land this month that illustrate two extremes of long-form composition. Listening to them side by side (or mixed together if you’re feeling adventurous) reminds us that beauty isn’t just in the eye of the beholder. Beauty is expressed. And everyone gets to decide what theirs looks and sounds like. Monty…
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The jam session has long had a kind of mythic quality for rock music fans of a certain age. As what we now call classic rock gathered momentum in the 1960s and 1970s, many of the more cohesive bands would extend their hit songs with exaggerated bridges. This allowed the players to have a bit…
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At this time of year, references to houses take on a more evocative dimension. While it is doubtful that Geneva Skeen intended to dabble in the otherworldly, if ever there was a piece that captured what a haunted home sounds like it is her “The Sonorous House.” It opens with enough rattles, creeks and muffled…
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Sunday’s edition of The Moderns will feature Scanner’s latest, a 53-plus-minute re-release of his 1994 classic Mass Observation. Except that it’s not really a re-release. “I can remember this day so well, even though it was some 24 years ago,” writes Robin Rimbaud in this new release’s notes. “Standing up before a mixing desk in…
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