Listen With Others No.3 – August 1st 2025
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1. Transversal Time by Rhodri Davies (excerpt)
“Transversal Time was composed by Rhodri Davies in 2017. For its starting point it assigns different time systems – Standard Time, Decimal Time and Hex Time – to individual musicians. As a composition it encompasses many of those sensations and perceptions of time that are embodied by music. Improvising musicians develop acute sensitivities to body clock, breath, pulses and the silent transformations of time-between-time. So a musician’s heightened, fluid time becomes enfolded in this narrative situated within the house of clocks, all of them ‘telling’ different times. Also buried under the surface of the piece is François Jullien’s book, In Praise of Blandness, an exploration of the ancient Chinese value system based on simplicity, extreme subtlety and the paradox of sounds that deepen in the mind of the listener if they are not fully sounded, better still left silent so that they retain something secret and virtual within.”
https://confrontrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/transversal-time
2. Woven Processional by Ellen Fullman 11’38’’ (1980?)
“Ellen Fullman began developing her installation The Long String Instrument in 1980, in search of tonalities that could not be achieved with traditional instruments. This large-scale work consisted of 70-foot-long metallic wires, anchored by a wooden resonator, across which the performer moves backwards and forwards with rosin-covered fingers. The overall effect has been rightfully compared to the experience of standing inside an enormous grand piano.” https://ellenfullman-sv.bandcamp.com/album/the-long-string-instrumen
3. Osoi by FUJITA Yosuke 10’12’’ (2020)
“Fujita explores the idiosyncratic sound qualities of the pipe organ he has built all by himself in 2009. This – quite literally unique – instrument features only eleven pipes, an air pump called »fuigo« which was modelled after a traditional blacksmith’s one and has no keyboard. Osioi is an overall melancholic piece that explores the relationship between different tone colours through minute changes in pace.” https://fujita.bandcamp.com/album/iki
4. Phase III by Lucy Railton 8’58’’ from Blue Veil (2025)
“recorded at Église du Saint-Esprit in Paris, Blue Veil invites listeners into the realm of precision-tuned states of resonance: states made manifest through Railton’s careful traversal of her cello’s most subtle acoustic characteristics as they harmonically interlock with mind’s embodied modalities of attention and imagination.” https://lucyrailton.bandcamp.com/album/blue-veil
5. Further Selections from the Electric Harpsichord by Catherine Christer Hennix 46’50’’
“focuses on the transcendental potentials of precise tuning, inspired by their studies with Pandit Pran Nath. Composed of bursts of oscillating, synthetic tones using a carefully retuned synthesizer and a tape-based system for feedback delay, the sounds swirl, twinkle, and appear to bend time, space, and perception” https://blankformseditions.bandcamp.com/album/further-selections-from-the-electric-harpsichord-2
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