Jazz Articles about Orthodox

Orthodox: Supreme

by Karl Ackermann
January 25, 2017

As part of a 2010 five-disc anthology, The NYFA Collection: 25 Years of New York New Music (Innova), one musician, Eric John Eigner, contributed a piece called “Music for Faucet" which consisted of the sounds from his Brooklyn bathroom faucet. By manipulating pitch and rhythm through the flow of hot and cold water, and adjusting the valves, Eigner produced a variety of sounds. It certainly has a musicality to it but is it noise or music? For many, noise is ...