Background
Between 1994 and 1996, Frith was Composer-in-Residence at L’Ecole Nationale de Musique in Villeurbanne, France. At the end of the two year residency, Frith organised a musical event at the school involving as many students as possible. He grouped them according to their music disciplines and placed them in all the rooms of a music building. Each group of musicians then played music Frith had prepared for them or, when required, improvised. Using synchronized stopwatches, all the groups, who could not hear each other, played strictly according to a 55-minute time-score that Frith had written. During the concert the public was invited to wander from room to room, or sit in the courtyard and listen to the sounds from the open windows. The whole performance was recorded on four ADAT recorders and later mixed.
Downtown Music Gallery wrote of this album:
| “ | There are moments of chaos yet there is a constant thread that seems to hold it together and help things navigate through the more dense sections. What amazes me are those unexpected sections when certain events take place and it seems as if some large hand has reached out and molded a specific segment of the wave of sounds. Those magical moments appear when you least expect them. | ” |
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