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| | | antiopic (usa) #an 006 cd sakada “never give up on the margins of logic” three inch compact disc - never give up on the margins of logic (17:33)
| the first widely available recording (following a few i still haven’t seen on mattin’s w.m.o/r label) from this electro-acoustic freely improvising ensemble co-led by computer-musician mattin and (former?) amm percussionist eddie prévost; a transcription of a live-set (excerpt?) from the freedom of the city festival on may 3rd, 2003.
the 17.5 minutes go by in a whir of bowed cymbal harmonics, 12k sine tones, scrabbly contact-mic’ed elements, and the occasional guttural wail of a low-strung double bass. a highly succesful mix of chance elements referencing the history of live electronic music from david tudor’s first experiments in the 60s through richard teitlebaum’s synth-processing getup of the early 80s right on through contemporary computer-based algorithms... |
| | antiopic press release... |
| sakada
rhodri davies: harp
eddie prévost: percussion
mattin: computer feedback
margarida garcia: double bass
mark wastell: amplified textures
“for london's freedom of the city festival mattin's sakada materializes in a big band incarnation. unexpectedly, the larger the group, the smaller the sound. in contrast to sakada's dense previous recordings as the trio of mattin, prévost and rosy parlane, here the expanded sakada navigate a more restrained and open territory. droning passages rise and ebb in blocks, the sound folding over on itself, while minute textures dance on the edges. the emphasis on bowed sounds (prévost's cymbals, davies' harp, garcia's bass, wastell's objects and mattin's computer casing (!!!)) brings to mind the slow churning of a morton feldman composition, yet mutated further into the realm of the unexpected and abstract. this recording finds a group as attuned to the space in between as they are to each other. an intense document of precisely restrained improvisation.” |
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