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Richard Barrett: adrift
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Richard Barrett makes music that demands more than total attention, and it's impossible not to be sucked in. On adrift, a collection of three pieces, his command of sound in all its depth and glory is utterly alluring. This makes it easier to fall prey to the seduction of the music--a magnificent collision of instrumentation on codex IX" and codex VII"--and on the glacially spare adrift which is equally demanding of active and energetic participation. In fact, it is entirely ...
read moreCreative Sources Recordings Releases "Numbers" by Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park
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Han-earl Park
Released by Creative Sources Recordings: Numbers (CS 201 CD), a duo album by composer, performer and electronic musician Richard Barrett and guitarist, improviser and constructor Han-earl Park. Numbers is a high-energy, quick-footed, scatter-brained two handera looping, convoluted, interactive dance made audiblea musical fender bender involving electroacoustic complexities and (physio)logical splutter-cuts, jump-cuts and match-cutsan intense white- knuckle extemporization unitthe duo of composer, performer and electronic musician Richard Barrett and guitarist, improviser and constructor Han-earl Park. Celebrated for his dense, complex, intricate ...
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