This was kind of difficult to listen to because the distorted sounds were really jarring in some places, but it was definitely an interesting listen. It was way more musical than most of the musique concrete that I've listened to so far, which is definitely a nice change. It used some pretty familiar instruments in combination with some not so familiar sounds. It used a piano sound frequently, especially with bass sounds, and used all kinds of effects on it, changing the pitch part of the way through the sound, or reversing it, and some strings that were heavily distorted and became almost painful. There was also a gong used both forwards and backwards. The electronic pitched sound used was kind of squeaky, almost, it's really difficult to describe. And on top of so many of the sounds was this awful grating mechanical disrupting sound that I can't even begin to classify. All I know is that it was really overpowering and uncomfortable when it came in. I really did like the booming low piano lines though. I'm not really sure how exactly they were edited, but the slow movement up in pitch sounded really wild. I also really liked when something would be played in one speaker and then repeated in the other in this disorienting stereo canon.
This piece is definitely very musical, but it's also a very uncomfortable listen. I think that's part of the point.
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