Jazz Articles about HEAR

HEAR: ...Or What?

by Mark Corroto
September 1, 1999

I overheard a conversation the other day. It was recorded by the duo HEAR, Joey Oz and Hannes Giger. Not knowing where it started or how it ends, their banter was an inside joke...that I understood. The forty-seven tracks comprising this release include 30 musical haikus. But even the longer pieces are fragments of thoughts. Scraps of conversations, like lines from favorite movies repeated so often you forgot what movie and who were the actors. In our postmodern world, or ...