Released on the wonderfully innovative, independent London label Erased Tapes, the New York-based composer joins with the French group on a mesmeric, 50-minute work of seven instrumental tracks for three vibraphones and 1-bit electronics. On this release the Ensemble 0 is pared down to just three musicians playing the resonant metal bars, accompanied by 20 speakers, each playing their own separate musical part of the composition. It’s a fascinating, interweaving musical experience of binary programming and live music, mixing simplicity and complexity, strangely beautiful and having a slightly hallucinatory aural effect, not unlike the album’s Bridget Riley-style cover art. Best as a start-to-finish experience, but of the seven, Sections 2-4 offer a particularly enthralling, alternative sequence of meditative music. Out on Erased Tapes.
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