Swish Timing
Don Valley Parkway · 1988
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Rebounding around his own music-making history, Charlie Ringas has taken to collage on this epic and multitudinous recording project entitled “Revolving.” In order to collage you need a rich resource of choice stuff. So, in mode of an archivist, he has assembled material from an extensive library of live recordings of his compositions, performed by groups he has led, which is the resource that has become the present output.
With an overlaying and interweaving of the material, sections are taken apart, pared down, layered into, all built up to create renewed sound constructions. From a musical perspective, something wholly fresh is produced here as a vital listening experience.
This is very much a studio project, realized through the possibilities of digital sound editing. “Revolving” is a reinterpreting, even a renewed purposing, of the composers own history. A new music made in a new way of approaching it.
Don Valley Parkway · 1988
Banana Moon · 1984
Mesotron Orchestra & Spectra Chorus · 2007
Hermetic Music Commission · 2002