NY composer & keyboardist Derek Baron meets with Minneapolis experimental composer & performer Luke Martin at Zeitgeist Center in New Orleans and at Resource Space in Minneapolis, MN to record these live performances on piano, keyboard, no-input mixing board and cassette recordings; minimal works of tension and release, incorporating movement, audience and room sounds into their contemporary improvisations.
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Derek Baron-piano, keyboards
Luke Martin-cassettes, no-input mixing board
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Edition of 100 copies.
Label: Notice Recordings
Catalog ID: NTR085
Squidco Product Code: 35079
Format: CASSETTE
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: USA
Packaging: Cassette
"Distinct" recorded at Zeitgeist Arts Center, New Orleans LA on November 10 2022. "Concealed" recorded at Resource Space in Minneapolis MN on March 9 2023. Mastered by Taku Unami.
"This meet-up between two thoughtful practitioners of minimal and process-oriented music succeeds not because it is resourceful but because its gestures are clearheaded. Disciplined and exploratory, it is like observing someone fixing a watch: methodical and calm, periodically getting up and selecting a tool, working for stretches of full concentration, and hearing the footsteps and rustle of clothing. The titles of the pieces - "Distinct" and "Concealed" - suggest tensions between public self-presentation and private self-knowledge, and yet these recordings were made live, with sounds of the room and the activity and movements of the players suggesting a theatricality that complicates both poles.
"Distinct" plays like a long-delayed catch-up session between friends, seriousness arising periodically before resolving into active and glassy communication. If "Distinct" is a catch-up, "Concealed" plays as a tense second meeting: piano-led, with zipped spoken-word loops and long stretches of pause, eventually falling into a satisfying equilibrium. The barely controlled nature of no-input mixing confronts the more manageable elements of electronics and tape, with keyboards complicating the relationship. In the hands of Baron and Martin, minimalism is a constant and active search."-Notice Recordings
Edition of 100 copies.
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Derek Baron "Derek Baron is a composer, writer, and teacher from Chicago and New York. They have released music with Penultimate Press, Regional Bears, OtoRoku, Recital, and other labels. Collaborative projects include the amateur chamber ensemble Cop Tears and the music/writing duo Permanent Six Flags. They also operate, with Emily Martin, the "Reading Group" record label for new and archival audio." ^ Hide Bio for Derek Baron
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Track Listing:
SIDE A
1. Distinct 32:01
SIDE A
1. Concealed 31:34
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