#Listening to The Visitor, by Jim O’Rourke

-

The Visitor is a masterpiece of arranging. Each sound has its place, and every element shifts in and out of presence so discreetly that you never notice the transitions. Despite requiring a reported 200 tracks to realise, the mix is uncluttered and the edits quite invisible; each event furthers the sonic narrative, then disappears when its job is done.

Bill Meyer, The Wire's Mag., September 2009

 

The Visitor, will be on air, tonight at www.ruc.pt (11pm, Lisbon Time), 107.9fm Coimbra, Portugal

Posted via web from Zoid's reading the Wide Web

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Meredith Monk

-
Image
Compositora e cantora, coreógrafa e bailarina, realizadora. Pioneira nas técnicas de extensão vocal, performer pluridisciplinar, figura ímpar das artes performativas nas últimas 4 (!) décadas. Regressa a Portugal e em três datas lança oportunidades para ajudar a descobrir as cores e texturas ilimitadas da voz humana: Lisboa (CCB) a 26 de Abril, em Torres Vedras a 30 e em Portalegre a 1 de Maio. Para os mais curiosos, um mergulho em Four American Composeres de Peter Greenaway , capítulo Meredith Monk : no UBUWEB
Read more

Iain McKell, "New Gypsies"

-
Image
"Historically despised the new Gypsies are there by choice, not heritage. Unrelated to the Roma, the movement began in 1986 when a group of Post-Punk Anti-Thatcher protesters headed out of London into the English countryside. McKell followed these New Age Travellers to the West Country and over the years he watched them become a hybrid tribe - the new gypsies - present-day rural anarchists, living the subversive lifestyle in elaborately decorated horse-drawn caravans." Iain McKell, "New Gypsies"
Read more