Label: Important Records

当店では2007年に発表した1st[Organized Pitches Occurring In Time]がロングセラーとなっている、ラモンテ、テリー・ライリー、ライヒ等々、ミニマルの巨匠からの大きな影響を語るサンディエゴのギタリストDuane Pitre。現在はアブストラクト且つハードコア・ドローンの制作を軸に動いている人物で、本作は純正律にチューニングされた8ボイスのシンセサイザーを用いた新作ソロカセット。柔らかな変化で紡がれるポリリズムとパターンは、どこかエネルギッシュであり特殊な恍惚感を漂わせています。大推薦。



Duane Pitre's Varolii Patterns was made with an eight-voice synthesizer, tuned in Just Intonation. These consonant pieces explore shifting polyrhythms that slip in and out of rhythmic focus and "Common Rhythmic Pulses" that carry over as the pattern evolves within a piece.

Artist statement:

"While experimenting with microtonal electronics for a piece I was writing for Zinc & Copper, which would eventually be titled Pons, I came across a process-based technique that I was quite keen on. Although I wouldn't use this technique on the Zinc & Copper piece, I would later implement said process to make up some of the electronics on Omniscient Voices. During this time I carried out dozens and dozens of instances of this process and recorded them all. Varolii Patterns is composed of a small collection of these recorded takes, ones I felt were stand-alone pieces on their own and that worked well together as a whole."