"Forgetting and Remembering" |
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| I like the way Paredes describes it himself: "Both works on this disc are compositions/improvisations originally committed directly to tape. I think of them variously as a kind of painting or drawing (or writing) in which the surface of the tape constitutes a repository (not unlike a canvas) for etchings or inscriptions; traces of tactile energies and shapes (gestures and levels of pressure) to be retraced as sound via the means of playback equipment... Altogether, an unfolding of different past-past-sounds speaking to one another within a present. How, I wonder, would it be (actually) to experience it this way?" "Forgetting and Remembering is seven simultaneously sounding clarinet improvisations, recoreded one track at a time on a single 8 track tape. Each one made on a different day. Each one made without having listened to any whole or part of a previous performance in order that I might have access to the past only through memory." #17 (Speakers):[in every moment{of}decay]...for 2 channel tape "Tape music made in the old style from the sounds of analog electronics, clarinet, kalimba, and assorted noise makers wherein "decay" as a connotative signifyer informs the music at levels large and small..." RP The piece grows as it decays , drones, electronic washes and mixtures.."From this layered and leveled world of sound, I can infer the inevitable decay of ways of creating , teaching, interacting...The inevitable decay of mediums of expression of passe technology operating at the edge of broken down...of non-conductive patch cords failing to enable the breathing of a circuit ((the emergence of a thought)), of painful surges from nowhere in particular)...the inevitable decay of the human body, of human connection, one to the other, possible only, yet doomed, through bodies...of dreams now nearly quiet, and in every moment of decay i can, as well, infer the sound(s) of an ineveitable and beautiful resistance thereto(o)." I loved this piece!
-Chaz Currier American Composers Forum |