Two clarinetists--John McCowen, also the composer, and Madison Greenstone, both on clarinet & bass clarinet--taking the title from Boethius' (427-524 AD) printed work on ancient Greek music: "De institutione musica", as they generate long-form drones using the harmonic interactions and interference patterns of similar tones, overtones, and difference tones; impressively intense.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2018 Country: Germany Packaging: Cardstock 3 page foldover in vinyl sleeve Tracks 1 - 4 recorded at Tiny Telephone Studios, in San Francisco, California, by Adam Hirsch.
Track 5 recorded at Figure 8 Recordings, in Brooklyn, New York, by Michael Coleman.
Two clarinetists--John McCowen, also the composer, and Madison Greenstone on clarinet & bass clarinet--taking the title from Boethius' (427-524 AD) printed work on ancient Greek music: "De institutione musica", as they generate long-form drones using the harmonic interactions and interference patterns of similar tones, overtones, and difference tones. The resulting music is intense, impressively concentrative, creating virtual loops or long passages of seemingly synthetic sound, elusively generated by the pure acoustic tones of their venerable reed instruments. For listeners of The International Nothing, Magic I.D., Sergio Merce, Kai Fagaschinski, or Michael Thieke.