Tag: electroacoustic
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AMN Reviews: Adriano Orrù – Palimpsest [pyr106]
A palimpsest—a manuscript page scraped of existing writing in order to receive new writing—represents something of an adaptation of old materials to new purposes. As such, it’s an appropriate image for this new release from Sardinian double bassist Adriano Orrù. Once an electric bassist, Orrù here takes up his old instrument again and puts it…
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AMN Reviews: Mike Bullock – Fermented…Earth/A Cat’s Tiger [shadowselves02]
The single nineteen minute track that makes up this second release from double bassist/sound artist Mike Bullock’s Shadowselves label is something of a paradox: a polyphonic soliloquy. In addition to playing double bass, Bullock creates sounds with synthesizer, voice and the movement of pens and pencils across paper. Bullock favors an elemental approach to the…
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AMN Reviews: Mike Cooper & Yan-Chiu Leung – Right (H)ear Side by Side
Mike Cooper & Yan-Chiu Leung: Right (H)ear Side by Side [linear obsessional] Right (H)ear Side by Side pairs Mike Cooper’s guitar, electronics and effects with Yan-Chiu Leung’s sheng, a Chinese reed instrument. The recording, which was made in January 2013 as part of the Around Sound Art Festival in Hong Kong, represents the first face-to-face…
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AMN Reviews: Alexander Sigman – Nominal/Noumenal
Alexander Sigman: Nominal/Noumenal (Carrier Records) Nominal/Noumenal is a release of recent acoustic and electroacoustic chamber work by composer Alexander Sigman. Like his teacher Brian Ferneyhough, Sigman uses thickly notated scores to create complex compositions exploiting a sometimes dense, sometimes sparse arrangement of conventional and extended methods of sound production. The seven pieces included in this…
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