Katherine Balch: drip music | Talea Ensemble

[@programeditor1119]

This is truly amazing.

[@diallobanksmusic]

...so good

[@johnpcomposer]

I'm not a huge fan of sound effect music...a collection of extended techniques strung together with occasional references to the idea of chords and harmony. There are some interesting sounds and sonorities in the latter stretch of the piece. A lot of the chirping and whirring and clicking is not much different than other pieces like this...when there is so much depending on indefinite pitch...how does one distinguish a good rustle, click or pop from a so so string of clicks, pops and rustles....you can't rightly say if it makes any structural sense. You feel music being trapped in a very small and somewhat precious box, like jewelry or trinkets. You feel it's written just for the novelty of effect and with the idea of how tricky it is to perform.