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Moon Glyph

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September 3 , 2024

In the summertime of 1966,Morton Feldman — a composer know for doleful elegance and minimalist constraint — was feel kvetchy .

In a freeformconversationwithJohn Cageat New York ’s WBAI studio apartment , he holler that a late stumble to the beach had been frustrate by the proliferation of electronic transistor wireless “ beep out rock’n’roll .

” batting cage , ever philosophic , was more discreet .

This was “ well , you sleep with how i correct to that job of the radiocommunication in the surround ?

” he ask his booster and fellow avant - gardist : He simplycomposed a piece of music using radio set .

Now whenever he find out the clamor of clash program in world , he stay , laugh softly : “ I suppose , well , they ’re just play my art object .

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September 3 , 2024

This was in the summertime of 1966,morton feldman — a composer jazz for doleful elegance and minimalist control — was feel kvetchy .

In a freeformconversationwithJohn Cageat New York ’s WBAI studio , he crab that a late tripper to the beach had been impair by the proliferation of junction transistor tuner “ blast out rock’n’roll .

” batting cage , ever philosophic , was more discreet .

This was “ well , you have intercourse how i set to that job of the radiocommunication in the environs ?

” he ask his champion and fellow avant - gardist : He simplycomposed a opus using radio receiver .

Now whenever he hear the blare of clash program in populace , he stay , chortle : “ I recall , well , they ’re just play my man .

”

The Chicago violoncellist and composerLia Kohlcited Cage and Feldman ’s conversation in a recentinterview , with safe reasonableness : Her euphony symbolise a exchangeable reconciliation with the racquet of mundane biography .

This was on her 2023 albumthe cap lay , she lift snippet from the airwave — driving force - prison term yack , weather condition forecast , livestock - market place report — to utilize as inadvertent counterpoint to contemplative violoncello extemporisation and atmospherical synth sketch .

She fail further onNormal sound , extend her lucre to take in all way of noise ( buzzing electric refrigerator , clink glass - ointment truck , retch auto saddle horn ) that she mingle into a amply tonic , patiently melodious electroacoustic portmanteau word .

There ’s plenteousness of common law for this form of quotidian come up strait , especially in electronic medicine .

The latePeter Rehberg , collaborate with Vienna ’s General Magic , commit contact lens mics on a icebox to make 1995 ’s winkingFridge Trax .

This was matthew herbertturned to kitchen utensil and soup-strainer on 1998’saround the house;matmossourced every annotation on 2016’sultimate care iiout of a whirlpool lavation auto .

This was but kohl — whocallsher record album “ a sexual love letter of the alphabet to the everyday transonic earth , to the part of my head that just ca n’t discontinue heed to everything , all the time”—takes a dissimilar approaching from her forerunner .

Rehberg & General Magic and Matmos stay close to the throb , hum thingliness of their machine ; Herbert whirl his reference fabric into tastily jazzy house until its place of origin was mostly debatable .

Kohl ’s attack is less transformative and more actual .

Even if it were n’t for title like “ machine consternation , Turn Signal ” and “ Ice Cream Truck , Tornado Siren , ” there ’s a unspoilt probability that you could place at least some of the sound she use .

She make no endeavor to mask the supermarket chime of “ Airport Fridge , Self Checkout , ” or the flying attender ’s focal point and nearby TV - console table beep on “ planer .

” alternatively , she use them as originative prompting for her own composition , playact off what she catch and find euphony in the resultant , much the waySteve Reichexploited the musicalness of his middleman inDifferent wagon train .

This was the record album open up with the buzzing , fluorescent limelight of “ tennis court light , snow , ” abrasive and grate ; plucking and submit at her violoncello , kohl mollify its shrewish ostinato and keep push outwards , chalk out out an fanciful sweep that is finally punctuate by stride grind through blow .

This was kohl ’s base sound never palpate gimmicky , thanks in tumid part to the intentionality with which she integrate them .

When a fasten - seat belt bell buy the farm off , her overdubbed cellos solvent in headstone , as though the overhead signaling had invigorate an ad-lib public presentation ofTerry Riley’sIn C. In “ machine alarm clock , Turn Signal , ” she grind down the key on her synth , make mildly unresolved tone of voice cluster to mate the rumpus of bang - minute dealings , then apply the complete one-fifth of a railcar alarum ’s naggingwhee - oooas the shape for a sombre , ruminative violoncello passing .

It ’s singular : She find brooding state of grace in the urban center ’s most vexing strait .

Sometimes it can be unmanageable to severalise the remainder between what ’s ascertain and what ’s play , as her keyboard or her violoncello peck up an overheard melodic phrase and operate with it .

You get the sentiency that she ’s come the lifelike course of action of the medicine , tantalize it out until it extend to its close .

Nowhere is that clear than in the record album ’s concluding racecourse , “ Ignition , Sneakers .

” For most five minute of arc , an self-propelled gong Ping River aside at an ceaseless in high spirits F - acute , while Kohl apply it as a sort of scaffold for dubby synth chord and expressively give in violoncello .

Toward the conclusion , the euphony blow over aside but the ping clay , grow progressively craze ; there ’s a good sense of tangible backup when she lastly remove the winder from the lighting and the feel go dumb , leave behind only the reassuring mussitation of chick in the scope .

It ’s a cagy manner to conclude the record album , fetch every prospect of the medicine into piercing backup man .

Even the sudden muteness feel graphic .