Music for The Man Who Grew Common in Wisdom / by Ellen Fullman

So excited to announce this will be released as an LP on Besom Presse!

The Man Who Grew Common in Wisdom was featured in Deborah Hay’s Re-Perspective, Tanz im August Festival, Berlin, Sophiensaele, August 16-18, 2019.

with Eva Mohn, after an astonishing performance by her of The Man Who Grew Common in Wisdom at Sophiensaele, Tanz im August Festival, Berlin 2019 – RePerspective Deborah Hay: Works from 1968 to the Present

with Eva Mohn, after an astonishing performance by her of The Man Who Grew Common in Wisdom at Sophiensaele, Tanz im August Festival, Berlin 2019 – RePerspective Deborah Hay: Works from 1968 to the Present

Staggered Stasis was written for The Navigator. Chord changes hover around a theme of Pythagorean intervals, microtonal shifts occur in a staggered fashion. There is a flatness in this drama, like what I imagine it must be like to be alone in the middle of an ocean.

Music for the Gardener uses the image of a curbside garden decorated with bits of broken glass and scrap wood. Recordings of these materials are manipulated with a Prophet sampler to build an audio mosaic out of discarded things.

Music for the Aviator is rooted in Deborah’s directive: “We contain the mystery, but we don’t know what it is.” The music illustrates this concept as a day at the circus with calliope music, starter pistols, large crowds and abrupt disturbances.

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Recording Music for The Gardener 1987

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It was swapping back and forth between a Studer Revox half track and PCM digital processor back then to multitrack. The Mac toaster was only powerful enough to be used as a control interface for the Prophet sampler. Those are shards of glass from a …

It was swapping back and forth between a Studer Revox half track and PCM digital processor back then to multitrack. The Mac toaster was only powerful enough to be used as a control interface for the Prophet sampler. Those are shards of glass from a broken Budweiser bottle on the concrete stepping stone.