Giacomo Fiore x Danny Clay - "turntable drawing no. 16 "

From the press release - “Turntable Drawings is an ongoing series of numbered works by composer Danny Clay and printmaker Jon Fischer based on a growing collection of hand-molded, playable records. Turntable Drawing No. 16 combines three turntables playing locked-groove records with a score for electric guitar featuring looped chordal fragments. The records are encoded with various sounds: some noisy, some melodic, all pretty low in fidelity. After its premiere in June 2017, the work evolved into several distinct versions. Presented here are Danny’s “studio” rendition, consisting of collaged material recorded between September 2018 and April 2020, and Giacomo’s “live” performance, which uses an ad-hoc modular synthesizer patch that loops and processes both record sounds and guitar in real time. Together they offer a pair of perspectives emerging from the same musical framework.”

Given the means of production of “turntable drawing no. 16” by Giacomo Fiore and Danny Clay and it’s extended run time I was expecting something much more in the noisy vein. Instead, what met me was a mostly soft and subtle pillow of granular drones and melodic fragments until an absolutely sick extended guitar solo / flight shreds into a hopeful oblivion. A vale piercing movement that is a thrilling contribution to to an already lovely and engaging longform piece of music. 10/10 if I did that kind of thing.