O. O. DISCS, INC. is pleased to announce the release of OO #32, WALLS OF
SOUND with music by John Cage, James Tenney, Joseph Celli and Phill Niblock,
performed by saxophonist/composer Ulrich Krieger. The disc features 64:00
minutes of very thick textural music with dense, multi-layered over-lays of
sound. Krieger feels that, "... this is a kind of music that is truly
American. It started with composers like LaMonte Young with a profound
devotion to sound, putting texture and sound as the primary compositional
interest in contrast to the traditional European concern for basic
compositional parameters of rhythm, melody, harmony, structure...."
Cage's FOUR5 is recorded here so that there are 20 layers of saxophone
resulting in a work that is '... humming and throbbing as a result of the
minute pitch differences...." James Tenney's SAXONY and Joseph Celli's VIDEO
SAX use the complete sax family and Niblock's DIDJIRIDOOS AND DON'TS has the
didjeridoo with tape.
James Pritchett's provocative essay accompanying the disc begins with,
"Sounds that are continuous: refrigerators, power transformers, computer
fans, fluorescent lights; the heat pump, the attic fan, the neighbor's air
conditioner; the spring peepers; distant traffic, tornado sirens, high-flying
jets; a tree full of grackles, another full of starlings, and another full of
house sparrows; lawn mowers and leaf blowers. A continuous sound defines the
space that it occupies; it is not just an acoustic phenomenon. It has a
center and a radius and intensity curve that peaks at the center and trails
off to the edges. Place two drones into a space and then you have the
interpenetration of their domains."
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experimental music we most often times do not have the resources to
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release 'sound art' for the home listener. We work hard to develop good
graphics and intelligent writing to accompany the music. Visit us at our
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