This work is process music where the process acts on a short phrase. The phrase is run on two loops that slowly go out of synch and this causes phasing. One loop is in the left field and the other is in the right field of the stereo spectrum. Because of this, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easy to hear the loops go out of synch, at least initially. But it sounds like there is more going on than just the initial phase shifting. After awhile the verbal phrase (if you can call still call it that, at this point) starts to reverberate or echo, and then it sounds like maybe this process is fed into itself. After a while, the sound (it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s definitely no longer a verbal phrase (well, of course, it is, but you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell that anymore)) starts to break up. Near the end of the piece it sounds like a combination of maybe a swarm of angry insects and the chanting, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Got one, got one, everybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got one\u00e2\u20ac\u009d part of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I Am the Walrus\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. But it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really sound quite like that. It just sounds like what it is, which you have to hear.<\/p>\n
People have commented on this being a political work because the initial recording is of an African-American teenager describing being brutalized by the police, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really hear that. I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have been able to guess that was what the phrase was about, if I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t read it. I think it turns out to be a good piece, because the person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s voice has a nice, interesting timbre and the phrase is interesting (it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sort of surreal, in a way) regardless of its political or historical context. Like Bob Dylan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early songs, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more artistic than it is topical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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