Terry Fox Berlino Rallentando Lp 1988 NM
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Terry Fox
Berlino Rallentando
(Het Appolonius; 1988)
Inspired dronework from the master of the long thin wire. Vinyl and jacket Near Mint.
Two different applications of the long strings at play here. The first is a collage featuring piles of found sounds, mostly industrial actions, strung along a three piano wire tapestry. Fox has this knack for conjuring from long strings sounds that typically belong in the electronic realm, typically by giving a hard wap to slack strings, but on this he also opts for the taut and sonorous as well. The second installment features Fox manning three wires and Jan Van Riet, Paul Panhuysen, and Mario Van Horrik on either cello or doublebass. The lineup is essentially the Maciunas Ensemble with Fox pinch-hitting for Leon van Noorden. Their soundmass here could easily be mistaken for the biggest air organ known to man. --(From the "Twice Zonked" weblog.)
Sound is a means of communication, a universal language. It enters the healthy ear without impe-
diments of langage or prejudice It is perceived by every culture in the same way: via the auditory
canal. It enters the ear without consent of the listener. It vibrates the eardrum. It requires no intellectuali-zation. No intelligence is necessary. No common language need be spoken. Illiteracy is irrelevant. Sound pauses as pulses in the air.
Performance is, for me, an attempt to discover a language or method of communication which
bypasses these barriers as sound does. The most important aspect of performance is the elimination of media or mediating or condition. The action is performed live and in front of its receiver. It exists only on these terms and in this context and no other: like eating. My work with the labyrinth led increasingly to the almost limit less sculptural possibilities of sound.
—Terry Fox
Keywords: Drone, Fluxus, Organum, Coil, Nurse with Wound, Charlemagne Palestine, Mirror, Andrew Chalk, Sonic Youth, Minimalist, Minimalism
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