Pathological Curves
1 sound Serrations 19:15
2 Sensorias 05:47
3 Unlaced 04:43
4 night slices 06:31
5 Immer inner 08:07
6 Pathological Curves 15:55
Daan Vandewalle _ piano 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 Conrad Harris _ violin 1, 6
Felix Fan _ cello 1, 6
Margaret Lancaster _ flute 6 Matthew Gold _ percussion 6
TimeTable _ Percussion 5
– Matthew Gold
– Matt Ward
– Alex Lipowski
Recorded by Scott Lehrer
at 2nd Story Sound, NYC,
Editing, mixing, and mastering by
Elizabeth Hoffman, home studio, NYC
To sonically modify sound, not as a composerly or listenerly injunction but as a condition of its possibility: such is the task of Elizabeth Hoffman. Hers is not merely a music of the "verb" - that composers "do" something or "perform" something on the sonic. Hers is an "adverbial" music.
Above all, adverbial music modifies - sound, yes, but more fundamentally the space in which sound appears and the temporality that it solicits as it vanishes, always. Adverbial music, reticently and generously, yields control, or rather, distributes it unpredictably across an improbable or perhaps impossible community of performer, listener, and composer.
