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Tony Conrad / Arnold Dreyblatt / Jim O'Rourke // Tonic 19-01-2001 LP

Tony Conrad / Arnold Dreyblatt / Jim O'Rourke // Tonic 19-01-2001 LP

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Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt, and Jim O'Rourke performed in 2001 at the legendary experimental music box Tonic in New York.

"From composing to listening" and "Working on sound from within"ConradEgoless music that perfectly expresses the desire of

Labels and other works Click here for more information. ///Click here to see more Black Truffle releases available at Tobira. 

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Black Truffle:

"Celebrating its one hundredth release, Black Truffle is honored to present a major archival discovery: a stunning document of the only performance by the trio of Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt and Jim O'Rourke. Across a two-night program organized by David Weinstein at legendary New York experimental venue Tonic in January 2001, Conrad, Dreyblatt and O'Rourke presented individual projects before performing a collaborative set each night, the first with members of Dreyblatt's ensemble and the second the trio heard here. wonderfully informative and reflective liner notes written for this release, this was a collaboration across generations, reflecting the profound impact of Conrad's pioneering minimalism on Dreyblatt and O'Rourke. Both Dreyblatt and O'Rourke came to this collaboration armed with a deep appreciation of Conrad's music and the just intonation principles at its core, Dreyblatt having first encountered the incredible power of Conrad's precise Ly tuned violin chords during his tenure as an archivist for La Monte Young in 1975, while O'Rourke had performed with Conrad in various settings since the mid-1990s (as well as admiring, reissuing, and performing Dreyblatt's music).

The flyer for the concert promised 'massiveFrom the moment this keening stream of bowed strings begins, it is clear, as Dreyblatt writes, that we are in 'Tony's sonic universe', as massively amplified, slowly shifting combinations of Precisely chosen pitches fill the room with complex beating patterns and ghostly difference tones. final quarter, allowing for the listener's first recognition of the individual voices that make up this enormous, overwhelming harmonic edifice. The constant stream of bowed tones is broken by a beautifully rich pizzicato from Conrad on monochord, the sliding low tones and metallic shimmer of the Other strings taking the set's final moments on an unexpected detour into spacious pastoral psychedelia.

Though produced by three individuals known for their own distinctive bodies of the work, this is egoless music, the perfect expression of Conrad's desire 'to move away from composing to listening', to 'working "on" the sound from "inside" the sound '. Historically important and overwhelming in sonic impact, this release also serves as a moving tribute to Tony Conrad from two musicians profoundly marked by the example set by his art and life."

Artist: Tony Conrad / Arnold Dreyblatt / Jim O'Rourke

Label: Black Truffle

Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt, and Jim O'Rourke performed in 2001 at the legendary experimental music box Tonic in New York.

"From composing to listening" and "Working on sound from within"ConradEgoless music that perfectly expresses the desire of

Labels and other works Click here for more information. ///Click here to see more Black Truffle releases available at Tobira. 

----------------------------

Black Truffle:

"Celebrating its one hundredth release, Black Truffle is honored to present a major archival discovery: a stunning document of the only performance by the trio of Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt and Jim O'Rourke. Across a two-night program organized by David Weinstein at legendary New York experimental venue Tonic in January 2001, Conrad, Dreyblatt and O'Rourke presented individual projects before performing a collaborative set each night, the first with members of Dreyblatt's ensemble and the second the trio heard here. wonderfully informative and reflective liner notes written for this release, this was a collaboration across generations, reflecting the profound impact of Conrad's pioneering minimalism on Dreyblatt and O'Rourke. Both Dreyblatt and O'Rourke came to this collaboration armed with a deep appreciation of Conrad's music and the just intonation principles at its core, Dreyblatt having first encountered the incredible power of Conrad's precise Ly tuned violin chords during his tenure as an archivist for La Monte Young in 1975, while O'Rourke had performed with Conrad in various settings since the mid-1990s (as well as admiring, reissuing, and performing Dreyblatt's music).

The flyer for the concert promised 'massiveFrom the moment this keening stream of bowed strings begins, it is clear, as Dreyblatt writes, that we are in 'Tony's sonic universe', as massively amplified, slowly shifting combinations of Precisely chosen pitches fill the room with complex beating patterns and ghostly difference tones. final quarter, allowing for the listener's first recognition of the individual voices that make up this enormous, overwhelming harmonic edifice. The constant stream of bowed tones is broken by a beautifully rich pizzicato from Conrad on monochord, the sliding low tones and metallic shimmer of the Other strings taking the set's final moments on an unexpected detour into spacious pastoral psychedelia.

Though produced by three individuals known for their own distinctive bodies of the work, this is egoless music, the perfect expression of Conrad's desire 'to move away from composing to listening', to 'working "on" the sound from "inside" the sound '. Historically important and overwhelming in sonic impact, this release also serves as a moving tribute to Tony Conrad from two musicians profoundly marked by the example set by his art and life."

Artist: Tony Conrad / Arnold Dreyblatt / Jim O'Rourke

Label: Black Truffle