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Stuart Dempster   In the Great Abbey of Clement VI   (NA013cd)

6/2/1991

 
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In The Great Abbey of Clement VI
solo trombone, didjeridu
 
All three works on this disc are slow-paced and meditative in style. Nonetheless, they include some daringly imaginative -- and unexpected -- sonic effects ... fascinating.
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While on tour with the Merce Cunningham Dance Co., Dempster, a renowned trombonist and pioneer of resonant improvisation, happened into the same abbey, and many of the same ghosts, that Umberto Eco evoked in The Name Of The Rose.
The very first note is the loudest, and should be overpowering. This single first note, after I stop playing, continues for 14 seconds into silence just before the next note. You will eventually learn to tell when I quit playing and leave only the echo, but at first you may be deceived. "Standing Waves - 1976" is straight-forward enough until you begin to hear multiphonics. Later on I merge into intense multiphonics with altered mouth shapes to emphasize various partials of the harmonic spectrum. Toward the end it almost sounds like crickets. The end comes when the bell tolls in the Abbey.


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