...from behind the unreasoning mask (1974-1975)
Roger Reynolds
Other composers on the recording:
Paul Chihara
Chou Wen-Chung
Earl Kim
Liner notes: Tom Johnson
Primary Artist(s): Miles Anderson, Trombone; Tom Raney, Percussion; Roger Reynolds, Assistant percussion
Label: New World NW237
Dates of recording: 1977
Recording:
Carson Taylor
About:
An interplay between a four-channel sound and live performers who respond in diverse ways to the prerecorded sounds and to each other. Imitation, contradiction, and independence variously guide the performers in an evolving strategy for penetrating the growing authority of the tape. The tape is the metaphoric "mask". The title comes from The Quarterdeck
chapter of Melville's Moby Dick.
