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| 5.0 classic | transgoggle | March 6th 17 |
Let me quote from the digital booklet: "The first piece, Who Has the Biggest Sound?, displays Dolden's talent for mixes that are dense in content yet retain transparency even when layering hundreds of tracks. His unique gift is the ability to imagine and then painstakingly realize
orchestrations where the sum is not only greater than the parts, but the results are completely unpredictable from the parts. Is that atonal noise or a romantic sonata for cello? Is that country twang or is the earth spinning into an apocalyptic portamento? A field recording of cicadas or
an Argentinean tango? It's all of that and more, as musical nanoparticles collide at the speed of light and splinter into volatile sonic projectiles that whimsically fuse and re-explode with unimaginable creativity. True to the spirit of outsider forefathers like Harry Partch, Dolden has
created his own set of tools and tuning systems ideally suited to his artistic vision. This is equally evident on the CD's second work, The UnTempered Orchestra. Moments of detuned madness most remind us of Partch, but while Partch physically sculpted an original armamentarium, Dolden
electronically sculpts familiar classical, rock, and world instruments into new harmonic shapes. If Who Has the Biggest Sound? proves Dolden shares Partch's biting wit, The Un-Tempered Orchestra extends the possibilities for tuning systems into dreamy realms beyond anything Patch could
have imagined."
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