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| | | sedimental (usa) #sed 050 cd tim feeney / vic rawlings “in six parts” compact disc - 1. (7:38)
- 2. (8:33)
- 3. (6:46)
- 4. (9:22)
- 5. (5:22)
- 6. (13:21)
| | click the play button to hear an excerpt of "2." |
| a continuous improvisation (presented... you guessed it :: in six parts) by bostons vic rawlings (long the hidden jewel of our vibrant improvisation community due to his brilliant open-circuit playing/instrument designs and electronically-enhanced cello) and tim feeney (a younger entrant on percussion & electronics) captured at firehouse 12 in new haven, ct in december 2005.
a tense set of raucous hysteresis-laden electronics, post-lachenmann extended techniques (both players appear far more interested in the so-called non-musical properties of their respective acoustic palettes; nary a clean attack from feeneys percussion array, nor a double-stop from vic) ; with the faint whisper of a dying capacitor/zener diode never far out of earshot... marvelous. |
| | sedimental press release... |
| tim feeney / vic rawlings - in six parts (sedcd050)
vic rawlings is as careful and focused as any musician/improviser working today. over the years he has honed his prepared cello and electronic, open circuit device performances down to sparse, tight, violent little assaults. his many collaborative projects run long and deep in boston (undr quartet, the bsc) and beyond (nra, mawja) and this (relatively) recent partnership with the youngster tim feeney has produced immediate and excellent results as well. this release also finally gets rawlings properly into the sedimental roster, something that is long overdue.
so what do we have here? feeney, a percussionist, is less a foil than a multiplier of the rawlings aesthetic. the first five parts are static, lean, and pinpointed explorations of high pitches, specific gestures of scrapes and buzzes. cold, but organic. sparse, but rich. feeney does provide a modicum of warmth as heard on part six, the final section of the disc, which acts an emotional counterweight to the previous five. a rhythm emerges, slowly unfolding, repeating, a know-able signpost amid the desolation, a way out, but not exactly towards home. |
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