"It's the raisin ants" -- oh, I mean "resonance." GG is a listening exercise on a couple of levels. For one, the natural sound here is wickedly cool. Two, the voices on this piece have the Crocodile Dundee sort of accent that make you puzzlingly cock your ear toward the speaker. And that's why this piece works for me, because as I often strain to understand what the speakers are saying, the sound of a cackling bird suddenly shoots out my speaker and my ear takes all of it in. Then the piece unfolds and all of this beautiful resonance follows and wraps around the voices that drive this piece. If the nat. sound was consistently a bit higher in the mix, I would have nothing but praises for this piece. Very nice.
Review of Grey Ghost
Justin Grotelueschen
Posted on November 14, 2004 at 07:56 AM
"It's the raisin ants" -- oh, I mean "resonance." GG is a listening exercise on a couple of levels. For one, the natural sound here is wickedly cool. Two, the voices on this piece have the Crocodile Dundee sort of accent that make you puzzlingly cock your ear toward the speaker. And that's why this piece works for me, because as I often strain to understand what the speakers are saying, the sound of a cackling bird suddenly shoots out my speaker and my ear takes all of it in. Then the piece unfolds and all of this beautiful resonance follows and wraps around the voices that drive this piece. If the nat. sound was consistently a bit higher in the mix, I would have nothing but praises for this piece. Very nice.