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Debashis Sinha. Anudrutam.
Lean, economical and crisp, Anudrutam infuses a minimalist techno sensibility with acoustic percussion and naturalistic field recordings (collected by Sinha himself in Kolkata). While the bareness used by some similarly oriented artists tends to emphasize the cold, machine-like precision of each sound repeating ad infinitum, the clarity and simplicity of Sinha’s gestures tend to foregroundContinue reading “Debashis Sinha. Anudrutam.”
FURT. Sense.
Two methods of creation play out on this disc by FURT, the British electronic composition-performance duo of Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer. The track Uranus is a forty-six-minute studio composition developed over a two-year period. In contrast, Curtains, the second track on the CD, is a twenty-six-minute improvisation recorded live and dedicated to the memoryContinue reading “FURT. Sense.”
X Avant Festival. The Music Gallery, Toronto. October 21–25, 2009.
The fourth X Avant Festival at Toronto’s Music Gallery was entitled Convergence and Collaboration. As noted in gallery artistic director Johathan Bunce’s program notes, the theme was “inspired by ambient music forefather Brian Eno’s idea of ‘scenius,’ . . . the notion of co-operation in modern music making, as opposed to the glorification of individual genius.” TheContinue reading “X Avant Festival. The Music Gallery, Toronto. October 21–25, 2009.”
Nicolas Bernier, Jacques Poulin-Denis. Sur Fond Blanc.
It is not always easy to translate music composed for a theatrical setting back to a purely sonic form. Incidental music often relies on a different type of physicality, both in the movement of bodies through space and in the placement of speakers to facilitate the sound itself becoming a dramatic participant. Sur Fond Blanc,Continue reading “Nicolas Bernier, Jacques Poulin-Denis. Sur Fond Blanc.”
