The other new CD is an odd-ball, certainly for a label like Cronica Electronica, who deal with laptop music and electronics. I have no clue as to what Piotr Kurek does to generate his music. Sometimes it seems like improvisations on acoustic percussion (such as in ‘Part 1’) but then something like ‘Tripartite’ could very well be a duet between accordion and laptop. The title refers to lectures given by Cornelius Cardew, who died in 1981, but whose son Walter has from lectures, performances and rehearsals. He handed them to Kurek, who used them in this work. An odd-ball, that brings up some questions, like what the relation is between the spoken word pieces by Cardew and the music by Kurek. Just inspired? Or is the music from Kurek all so spontaneous as Cardew wanted? Why not just add those as liner notes? In some cases music and talking mixes, which is nice, such as in ‘1963’, but when the talking is ‘solo’, it turned me a bit off. However the music here is quite nice. A most curious mixture of laptop music (I assume) and improvisation makes this something that is not heard often. Great one.
via Vital Weekly