Folding The Dead

[jazzy_dave]

John Oswald after the debacle with Plunderphonics made an album called Plexure in 1993.  Arguably it was his most ambitious composition to date, it attempted to microsample the history of CD music up to that point (1982–1992) in a 20 minute collage of bewildering complexity.

From 1993-1996, Oswald worked on and released Grayfolded, a 2-Disc set commissioned by the Grateful Dead consisting of pieces created from over 100 performances of the song "Dark Star". Oswald initially created and released disc 1, "Transitive Axis", which contains a 59 minute 59 second work in 9 movements. Feeling that there was more territory to explore, Oswald worked on disc 2, Mirror Ashes, which is a composition in "6*" movements. Once both discs were complete they were packaged together with extensive liner notes and a "visual time map" of the sources used in the compositions.I had this CD once and regret ever having sold it. Anyway, here is one of those tracks from the album, and this section is called In Revolving Ash Light.

Enjoy. 

Comments

wow

[pigshitpoet.livejournal.com]

orchestral masterpieces, of the endless jam
i'm grateful
; )

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

WOW, ambitious work he does. :o
This is really good. :)
Hugs, Jon

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

*HUGS*