Experimental
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“This sound composition is easily the most challenging, noisy and difficult piece I’ve ever made,” writes multimedia artist Charles Edward Fambro in the notes to his latest sound composition Dream Recovery. The prolific and enigmatic artist has produced a harsh, unforgiving 24-minute study of Betty and Barney Hill. The married couple earned a degree of…
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The first time Lou Reed was handed a Moog guitar, shortly after its development in 2008, he understood immediately how important an innovation it was. “There’s nothing else you can do this on,” he said, dabbing at the fretboard. “This opens the door.” A decade later, the stringed instrument designed by a synthesizer company is…
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A New Wave Of Jazz is readying a package of three Tonus albums for release next month. A double-live album called Intermediate Obscurities I-IV and two studio-recorded discs: Texture Point and Cagean Morphology. Tonus is a rotating ensemble built primarily around the dual-axis of Martina Verhoeven and Dirk Serries. “Tonus as an ensemble grew out…
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Olivia Block’s new 49-plus-minute live concert and sound installation is breathtaking in its scope. 132 Ranks, composed for pipe organ between 2016 and 2017 is a slow moving, gorgeous beast of a recording. The Chicago-based experimental music/sound composer and media artist wrote the work for the giant Skinner organ in her hometown’s Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.…
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Jeff Snyder and Federico Ughi have been performing together for the better part of a decade. They’re both members of the Federico Ughi Quartet, Life Station and the Listening Group. This new recording is their first as a two-piece. The suitably titled Duo showcases both talents in a setting that deserves repeat performances. Snyder plays…
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Electronic music producer Nick Sutton has partnered with Matthew Faulkner and Scott Darby on an ambitious project that occupies the extremes of both electronic and new classical music. Preludes/Renders offers seven preludes by Sutton and six renders – which is to say compositions featuring samples from Sutton’s preludes – by Faulkner. Darby’s video work accompanies…
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