Moving to the phenomenal composer and friend Bill Bolcom's earlier solo piano music cracks open in me a deconstructed sense of muscle and bone: of constant disruption, fragmentation and a microscopic surveying of the impulses that ...See moreMoving to the phenomenal composer and friend Bill Bolcom's earlier solo piano music cracks open in me a deconstructed sense of muscle and bone: of constant disruption, fragmentation and a microscopic surveying of the impulses that punctuate my movement improvisations. The "twitch factor", as I like to call it, gets a thorough workout. It's built into the thorny sounds of the mid-century music, (or as Bill refers to it, "the post-war 'difficult' music period) characterized by an uneasy exchange between North American, South American and European composers as they all negotiated the influences of atonality and serial music. Written by
Peter Sparling
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