James Dillon, "Sgothan"

Pierre-Yves Artaud, flauto
(Edizione Peters London)
concerto del 30 settembre

James Dillon, "Sgothan"

-- Richard Craig's Notes --

Conceived as an act to preserve the purity and integrity of the sound documents (a proposition widely disregarded these days) it was recorded in a five hour session without a break in an almost Dogme95-like stance. Alongside, is the intention of capturing all of the personal idiosyncrasies, inflections and internal references, conscious or otherwise, that are omnipresent in live performance - there has been no editing of the the material, neither for page turns or 'mistakes', and all are complete 'takes'. As a result, there is a migration of the sound which is obvious in the Dillon when I move to the next page-a small but charming addition to the gradual winding-down of 'Sgothan'.

James Dillon's music is embedded in syntax and turbulence. In 'Sgothan', this manifests itself as 24 interwoven miniatures, in various states of equilibrium and volatility, colliding and diffracting from each other with varying degrees of temporal and sonic flux, whilst retaining a disquieting naivete.