Review of David Beardsley's NYC1999

Greetings Tuners,

a review:

best wishes respects cordialities......

LB
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herewith : impressions of David B's 56 minute recording of "Sonic Bloom"
from a Knitting Factory performance:

A gong having a deep tissue massage......
A lion dreaming of the cosmos roaring, gently but loudly....

Digital delay? (can't tell) but there is a roughly 5 second cycle in play
Continual emergence of new cycles of melodic and or pitch
configurations......
This is gong like (even bowed gong) - resonant metallic space voyage or
exotic bush.......

Really satisfying ripples (blooms!) of sound, opens up the ears and the
imagination wonderfully.

It entices the development of sound perception and observation by delightful
means.....

A river of oozing cycling colours of sound,
Sounds that continue (and persist in continuing) to make appealing dimples
appear in themselves.

Bloom not boom (?) nature?

Its not really drones, its extremely developmental, once you settle into it.
LaMonte Young and Phil Niblock lend, but here there are more contours, if
still healthily detached in mood, redefining restraint.....

What ARE those voices and sounds - they're well integrated and bubbled
together, but, other than bowed metal, its hard to gauge, (that's a nice
position to listen from).

Really good! Do hear it!

Lawrence Ball wrote:

> Its not really drones, its extremely developmental, once you settle into it.
> La Monte Young and Phil Niblock lend, but here there are more contours, if
> still healthily detached in mood, redefining restraint.....
>
> What ARE those voices and sounds - they're well integrated and bubbled
> together, but, other than bowed metal, its hard to gauge, (that's a nice
> position to listen from).
>
> Really good! Do hear it!

Thank you very much! It's a bowed piano patch through two echos.
After a while it sounded like a gong to me too, although
that wasn't the original intent.

db

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--- In tuning@y..., David Beardsley <xouoxno@v...> wrote:
> Lawrence Ball wrote:
>
> > Its not really drones, its extremely developmental, once you
settle into it.
> > La Monte Young and Phil Niblock lend, but here there are more
contours, if
> > still healthily detached in mood, redefining restraint.....
> >
> > What ARE those voices and sounds - they're well integrated and
bubbled
> > together, but, other than bowed metal, its hard to gauge, (that's
a nice
> > position to listen from).
> >
> > Really good! Do hear it!
>
> Thank you very much! It's a bowed piano patch through two echos.
> After a while it sounded like a gong to me too, although
> that wasn't the original intent.
>
> db
>

Sonic Bloom:

Lawrence and David,

This was really interesting to me to see that we all heard this piece
as gong-like. Like an infinite sustain stage of a justly tuned gong
timbre. This was my thought too. Love it!

Jacky Ligon

--- In tuning@y..., Lawrence Ball <Lawrenceball@p...> wrote:

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Oh... and Beardsley, too. Hadn't read this one yet.

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Joseph Pehrson

--- In tuning@y..., Lawrence Ball <Lawrenceball@p...> wrote:

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Without getting sickeningly sentimental... sometimes I feel we
sometimes forget what we all are doing... and Lawrence Ball helps us
remember it!

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Joseph Pehrson