Frolic Architecture by Howe, Susan / Grubbs, David (CD, 2011)

Bcht, Blue Chopsticks

0781484702221

12046063493

Howe, Susan / Grubbs, David

CD

2011

Frolic Architecture

Alternative Rock

5.66in

0.38in

4.96in

0.24lb.

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Frolic Architecture drops the listener into a soundworld that germinates wildly from this most multiple and heterogeneous of Howe's celebrated collage poems. For long stretches, it is impossible to separate Howe's real-time performance of her fragment-strewn text from Grubbs's further deformations, scatterings, and layerings. These aberrant vocalizations are placed in a landscape in which individual pitches pulse autonomously within thick chords: gravel and cicadas duet. There is no foreground, no background. Frolic Architecture is the most radical and abstract of Grubbs's and Howe's work together.

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