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Tendrils In Vigne

from Tendrils In Vigne by Gregg Kowalsky

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release from this Bay Area composer, electronic musician and dronologist Gregg Kowalsky. A one sided lp documenting part of his Master’s Thesis, which entailed taking one of his electronic compositions, scoring it for a live ensemble and then conducting the performance.

Kowalsky enlisted the Contemporary Performance Ensemble, directed by Fred Frith, who also contributed violin. Recorded in 2005 at Mills College, the result was sublime. A gorgeous organic piece that references Feldman and Part and Melnyk as much as Kowalsky’s previous works.

The strings are low and buzz and throb dramatically, the piano is minor key and delicate, fluttering in brief little flurries, streaks of high end run through the swirling moodiness, over the top voices soar in choral fragments, washes of cymbals sizzle, horns moan, all manner of instruments are smeared into a heaving organic whole, shakuhachi, vibraphone, flute, a sonic cloud constantly expanding, intensifying chordal whir, like some moody rock band with the bones pulled out, leaving just a gloriously amorphous sound shape, slithering and drifting, creeping and billowing, building and building, some sort of classic chorale stretched out into a shimmering dreamlike blur.

On the surface, it’s a dark drift, but beneath the surface, sounds are roiling and churning, a sonic sea of tension and emotion, subtly psychedelic, a gorgeous, organic, orchestral drone. --Aquarius Records

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from Tendrils In Vigne, released January 1, 2006
Gregg Kowalsky: Composer, Conductor

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Gregg Kowalsky Los Angeles, California

Kowalsky began composing and performing electro-acoustic music using cassette tape loops, sine oscillators.His work explores multi channel, site-specific performances with a focus on psychoacoustic phenomena.

He currently resides in Los Angeles after a decade in Oakland, California where he completed a MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media at under the guidance of Fred Frith, Maggie Payne
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