Magnus Granberg has some interesting compositional work documented on the Another Timbre label… ist gefallen in den schnee might be my favorite. Several subsequent releases of his seem to touch on a similar template (improvisation within composed structures), and they don’t seem quite as successful
Toshimaru Nakamura plays ‘no input’ mixer feedback in this piece, along with several other people (Skogen (?) who play acoustic instruments, including unorthodox percussion objects like wine glasses, prepared piano, etc… it’s about an hour long, and apart from a small, stagnant instance (no longer than several minutes) midway thru, it’s largely successful, and well-affecting. It’s calming, engaging. The prepared piano sounds beautiful, and Nakamura’s contribution, while mostly atonal feedback / sounds, reminds me of what drew me to modular synthesis in the first place–piercing, raw, even percussive noise that’s a bit hard to control - basically shaping feedback sounds, which can be very pleasing if you’re into that (self-patching, feedback, industrial sounds, etc.) … the piece is based on an melody from an older piece of music (a folk song?) which i’m not familiar with. It’s one of my favorite albums on the AT label - highly recommended.
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