This dazzling performance was recorded live in Ghent, Belgium in 2016, with the cellist accompanied by a tape part of his own tamboura-like lines. His 1960 work Piece for Cello and Saxophone exists on paper in what appears to be a sketch, but apart from a short excerpt recorded with cellist Charlotte Moorman in 1964, it was rarely heard until Young began adapting for himself, as a vocalist, and cellist Charles Curtis in the late 1980s, slowing it down and arranging it for just intonation with a clear injection of phrases drawn from Indian classical tradition. Jennings struggled with addiction and died tragically in 1981 at the age of 41.

He eventually followed Young to New York, where he sometimes played in the Theatre of the Eternal Music. Saxophonist and composer Terry Jennings was an early associate of composer La Monte Young, embracing the latter’s focus on music built from sustained tones soon after they met in Los Angeles in the mid-1950s. Even within the comforting timbre of gamelan, Alit has created something radically original marked by an organically flowing intricacy that leads to new discoveries with each listen. The ensemble uses different extended techniques to produce novel tones-overtones ring and collide melodies blend, evaporate, or mutate into new forms. Each work is larded with cross-cutting, stop-start rhythms that pile up as if dragged around on a computer desktop, defying human capabilities.

In these two pieces, he seems to be channeling a wide array of non-native approaches through the singular lens of Balinese gamelan. This new collection-the second released by Black Truffle-presents his most distinctive and gripping music yet. There are some recordings of his work performed by American and European ensembles, but in 2020 he began sharing music played by his own group, the 25-member Gamelan Salukat, which blends two different tuning systems within its practice. back in 20, but we’re finally getting more opportunities to experience his own vision. Alit helped American composer Evan Ziporyn mount his opera A House in Baliin the U.S. There’s long been a steady flow of new compositions for the instrument, although they’re rarely exported to the U.S. Pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to trackīalinese composer Dewa Alit grew up steeped in gamelan tradition, but he’s focused on pushing the tradition forward rather than simply preserving it.

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