A work articulated around Pierrepont's main spiral poem and Ladd's traverse poems, with music improvised from a group inc. Hamid Drake, Roscoe Mitchell, Evan Parker, William Parker, &c.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2008 Country: France Packaging: Digipack Recorded between June 2007 and July 2008 in New York, Chicago and Paris. Mixed in Paris by Gymkhana, Alexandre Pierrepont and Mike Ladd.
Personnel:
Mike Ladd-voice, words & visions / sound constructor
Alexandre Pierrepont-voice, words & visions / sound designer
"On one level, both music and poetry are very much the same, that being sound - at least the spoken word would be. Here in "Haunted House" is a sound design or shape being put forth with multiple meanings psychoacoustically, linguistically, musically that I can only say very little about in terms of meaning, since ultimately it's meaning will be with each individual who experiences this work. This rhythmic engagement between these two art forms create a third reality of sound gestures and events that collide and integrate. Yet knowing these facts it still does not allow me to analyze or describe exactly what "Haunted House" is. Hopefully this experience will be a catalyst at some level for good."-Henry Threadgill, excerpts from the liner notes