gregory taylor | amalgam : aluminum / hydrogen
Like Robert Henke, Keith Fullerton Whitman, or Christopher Willits, Gregory Taylor takes on the problem of developing new ways to originate pieces by setting aside typical compositional / improvisational techniques in favor of developing new sound technologies. Taylor unifies the practice of synthesis, sampling, processing and looping into a single, simultaneously occurring stream of events that the listener perceives in the same living moment in which the composer creates. The resulting music is a shifting, densely interrelated cloud of layered and juxtaposed materials which essentially make music out of music.
His first CD for PoL, Amalgam: Aluminum / Hydrogen proves to be a marriage of buoyancy and structure. It is a single unedited recording of a live improvised performance by a radiaL virtuoso that unites the tunings and epicyclic forms of gamelan music that characterized Taylor’s 80s cassette culture releases with the timbres and aural surfaces of glitch, ambient and lowercase musics.
Gregory Taylor's music is pure paradoxical delight! It seems simple but is extremely sophisticated, it casts a joyfully melancholy aura, and it tickles my intellectual emotions. Plainly put: these pieces are just terrific. Taylor is doing the kind of music that I wish Brian Eno and others would be doing, but it takes someone with Taylor’s command of contemporary technology coupled with his broad sensitivity to the nuances of sound to do this today. His work manages to evoke a rich musical history while simultaneously opening a doorway into a vibrant new sonic future. I could listen to this stuff all day. As a matter of fact, I have. I really like this music.
— Brad Garton, Director, Columbia University Computer Music Center
Amalgam : Aluminum / Hydrogen
- tracks
- Bem
- Gulu
- Dada
- Pelog
- Lima
- Nem
- Barang
- play
- Bem (edit)
| purchase | CD | $ | 12.00 |
| Flac download | $ | 6.00 | |
| MP3 download | $ | 6.00 |
© 2012 Gregory Taylor