Label: Primordial Void

100部限定。Bill NaceやNate Youngとのコラボレーションで知られ、過去20年間は主に米国ノイズシーンで精力的に動いたJames Twig Harper。なんとクラシック曲に挑んだ異色のタイトルを米Primordial Voidより出版!![Positive Charge]、[Negative Charge]、二つの長編作品で構成されており、主に音響合成されたサウンドにてエレクトロニクスクラシックを構築。解説にリゲティ、ザッパ、ブーレーズとありますが、まさに先鋭的な作曲技法に挑戦しています。



CD in 4-panel digipak. Includes the exclusive bonus track "Valley".

Twig Harper’s second release of 2021 is a game-changing work of contemporary classical music. Consisting of two longform pieces, 'Two Variations for the Shadow of the Absolute' builds on the “classical electronics” of the Baltimore artist’s recent tape for Radical Documents, incorporating synthesized instrumentation and digitally manipulated studio recordings. The one-two punch of “Positive Charge” and “Negative Charge” falls somewhere between Ligeti’s electronic works and Boulez conducting Zappa, yet Harper’s trademark compositional techniques are present, and, above all, these two variations could only have been made by him and his shadowy cohorts (Dolphin Webinar, anyone?).

Known for his collaborations with musicians such as Bill Nace and Nate Young, Harper has been a prominent figure in the U.S. noise scene for the past two decades. 'Two Variations for the Shadow of the Absolute' serves as the follow-up to March’s excellent 'Classical Electronics'. Mastered by Jack Callahan (aka die Reihe).