Philip Corner: Rocks Can Fall At Any Time LP (more mars team, 2013)

December 17, 2013 at 8:09 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Philip Corner: Rocks Can Fall At Any Time LP

This LP features 4 recordings dating from the early ’70s to the late ’90s, with side A focusing on unaccompanied metal percussion, and side B featuring fragile, intimately recorded drones. “Gong (Ceng-Ceng) / Ear” is the clattering of resonant handheld Balinese cymbals. “Two In Thailand” features constant clattering from finger cymbals (creating almost a forest-like audio environment) with a gong being struck in slow intervals. The instruments are slowly being moved around each other, which is audible with concentration. “Om. Duet: Jug And Bottle” is a very minimal duet for jug and bottle with microtonal breath fluctuations. There’s a heavy layer of hiss, presumably because the sounds are so quiet that they have to amplify them to make them more audible. “Satie’s 2 Chords Of The Rose+Croix … As A Revelation” is a Satie piece played on harmonium, a very intimate recording with plenty of surface noise. The instrument is old and beat up, and the wheezing and knocking and other external, non-musical sounds (coughing, kneeling, stretching) are intentionally left in, even celebrated.

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