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Ogogo: Redux

Read "Redux" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il chitarrista russo residente in California Igor Grigoriev chiama alla sua corte il trombonista MIDI Rodney Oakes e parte per una lunga cavalcata nei territori dell'atonalità spruzzata di scordature da phase-shifter, circondata da nuvole esoteriche di origine elettronica e canti di uccello. I due sembrano poco interessati al dialogo basato sul botta e risposta e dimostrano invece di credere molto di più al soliloquio in simultanea, come due alieni provenienti da diversi sistemi solari che parlano ognuno il proprio linguaggio ...

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Rodney Oakes: Music for MIDI Trombone

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Experimental in the broadest sense of the word, the music on Rodney Oakes' Music for MIDI Trombone ventures into new realms, both technological and artistic. Electronic treatment of the trombone is thus far something of an oddity in music. Oakes takes a broad approach to this challenge, using a pitch-dependent MIDI controller and introducing sparse independently-composed electronic accompaniment. He offers similar treatment to the alp horn, a 9-foot long Polish instrument which exists solely to play a solitary E note. ...


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