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Georgia, etc. :: 4'55" :: 2003 i've written about this piece, but my friend newton armstrong wrote about it better. this is a review of the piece that appeared in The Open Space Magazine... "An assemblage of electroacoustic spaces and gestures, and recordings of environments on Earth, mediated by selections from a well-known track by Ray Charles: Georgia On My Mind." That's the program note, and that about sums it up. But as the strange coherence of this music emerges, the sense of discrete spaces and gestures dissolves. This is not an assemblage that has been thrown together from a collection of prefabricated parts. The material unfolds into spaces and gestures, and these spaces and gestures are unfolded in turn, at always higher levels of articulation, until the assemblage, the expression machine that is more than the sum of these parts, draws into focus. But this assemblage is not a stable entity. It's made of incongruous lines and perceptual discontinuities, and the already opaque semantics of the recorded materials is always—and always unexpectedly—called into question by the appearance of new materials and aggregations. This music is subtle, weird and devoid of heroics. It's the kind of music that still resonates for days after you've heard it, and its spaces and gestures continue to form into new and extraordinary geometries. |