Saturday, January 3, 2009

Postal Pieces

I found a great paper on James Tenney's Postal Pieces. If you're not familiar with these, I highly recommend looking into them, both for the beautiful music and the idea of taking a simple idea and deriving a whole performance from it.

Here's the link.

I saw the bassist Robert Black perform "Beast" from the Postal Pieces, and it was so haunting and beautiful. I've heard that Sonic Youth also does a rendition of "Having Never Written a Note for Percussion".

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