Saturday, September 13, 2008

Reed Phase, track 12

Reed Phase, track 12 on the CD that came with Sound Unbound, is not a track that I would care to listen to over and over again for any extended amount of time. However, I do appreciate the artist exploring the way in which repetition intensifies the sound. While listening to it, I was at times lost in it like a stream of thoughts pulling me further and further in. Then, just as I was becoming lost in the repetition, the repetition would become too much. At this point, it felt like a form of Chinese water torture with each repetition being one more drop landing on my head. I could hear the piece loop at times and yet was confused as to whether I was hearing the exact same sounds through the entire piece or if it was changing slightly. It was like the repetition was playing with me!

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