{"product_id":"ground-five-mechanic-convention-streams","title":"GROUND: FIVE MECHANIC CONVENTION STREAMS","description":"The final album released by the composer-performer Jerry Hunt before his death, Ground: Five Mechanic  Convention Streams is a rare and foundational audio document of Hunt's compositional process. The record  collects five pieces from the artist's \"Ground\" series, translating his characteristically variable and spatial  scores into \"recorded fixtures of activity using mechanic musical instrument arrays,\" to eerie and mesmerizing  results. Originally released by experimental label OODiscs in 1992, it is now available on vinyl for the first  time from Blank Forms Editions. It's tracks are dense and unpredictable, a miscellany of arrhythmic bursts,  fragments of spoken and whispered words, soft then fevered rattles and shaking, and a rare return to  pianoforte for the virtuoso player. On \"Talk (slice): double\" a nervous, warped dialogue unfolds between  Hunt and composer Rod Stasick, their voices alternately measured and monstrous. In \"Transform (stream):  monopole,\" breathy whistles build against a shimmering stream of bells, rattles, and shakers in a fantastical  cascade of percussion. Hunt revisits the piano in \"Lattice (stream): ordinal\" and \"Bitom (stream): link,\"  oscillating between gentle, almost classical phrases and frantic, seemingly random play. His collaboration with  violinist Jane Henry, \"Chimanazzi (Olun): core,\" extends similarly unorthodox playing techniques to the  violin, involving the scraping, plucking, and playing of it's strings. The unstable quality of these tracks belies  the rigor of Hunt's procedures; each ofGround's five pieces, their \"common ground core,\" is derived from the  angelic tables of sixteenth century English philosopher and occultist John Dee, adapted by Hunt as  frameworks to layer, adapt, and renew in his compositions. With a complex arrangement of sensors and  equipment, which the artist called \"interrelated electronic, mechanic, and social sound-sight interactive  transactional systems,\" Hunt realized these derivative systems in the techno-shamanic performances for which  he is best known. Ground distills these procedures into fixed songs, producing a vital and critical record of  Hunt's singular approach to composition.","brand":"BLANK FORMS","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl","offer_id":46130303041770,"sku":"769791979208","price":40.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/4106859-2847893.jpg?v=1783467930","url":"https:\/\/arkivmusic.com\/products\/ground-five-mechanic-convention-streams","provider":"ArkivMusic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}