So excited to announce this will be released as an LP on Besom Presse!
The Man Who Grew Common in Wisdom was featured in Deborah Hay’s Re-Perspective, Tanz im August Festival, Berlin, Sophiensaele, August 16-18, 2019.
with Eva Mohn, after an astonishing performance by her of The Man Who Grew Common in Wisdom at Sophiensaele, Tanz im August Festival, Berlin 2019 – RePerspective Deborah Hay: Works from 1968 to the Present
Staggered Stasis was written for The Navigator. Chord changes hover around a theme of Pythagorean intervals, microtonal shifts occur in a staggered fashion. There is a flatness in this drama, like what I imagine it must be like to be alone in the middle of an ocean.
Music for the Gardener uses the image of a curbside garden decorated with bits of broken glass and scrap wood. Recordings of these materials are manipulated with a Prophet sampler to build an audio mosaic out of discarded things.
Music for the Aviator is rooted in Deborah’s directive: “We contain the mystery, but we don’t know what it is.” The music illustrates this concept as a day at the circus with calliope music, starter pistols, large crowds and abrupt disturbances.
Recording Music for The Gardener 1987
It was swapping back and forth between a Studer Revox half track and PCM digital processor back then to multitrack. The Mac toaster was only powerful enough to be used as a control interface for the Prophet sampler. Those are shards of glass from a broken Budweiser bottle on the concrete stepping stone.
