Another helping of Tenney, this time including arrangements of Beatles tunes.
Arbor Vitae developed beautifully, from slow, creeping, scratchy harmonics to fingered notes and back again. On occasions I heard hunting horn-like tones. I'm realising I like slowly developing tones in pieces. It reminded me of In a large, open space from last night, although shorter and faster developing.
Cognate Canons struck me as very cerebral music. I wasn't feeling it on an emotional level until I stopped concentrating on it, at which point I found it became much more engaging, ironically.
The final piece, saxony, started with a low drone manufactured by the string quartet's playing being fed into a delay line. The sound developed by adding extra trills and notes related to the first. The sound became very complex, with what sounded like snippets of Scandinavian folk fiddle emerging. I was reminded of a CD I possess: Milvus by Mats Eden. It finally collapsed to the original drone as the players stopped playing and the delayed version faded. Really excellent.
The Lennon/McCartney interludes were rather fun. Nice contrast from the other Tenney pieces. Interesting to hear such familiar tunes being exposed in such a different way.
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