CITY LISTENING SAPIEN DRIFT

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it’s just that it’s so utterly cruel to struggle alive
and then die with this tattoo of teethmarks that only the absence brings//
so – where do all the people go?
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In 2014 )-(u||!c|< was awarded the Michael Kieran Harvey Scholarship for Piano. CITY LISTENING SAPIEN DRIFT marks out a 21^st century suite of subterranean works for solo piano and prepared piano.

The album traverses a range of sonic interventions: from the haunting Ballad of Jamie White — tracing the arc of a teenager falling to his accidental death —, to the re-framing of a Bach prelude into a contemporary picture of Dorian Gray. The work betrays a restless mind that confesses to both intense penetrating moments of light and the phobic depths of ink black night.

And then there is a lullaby for )-(u||!c|<’s daughters cut in gentle brevity.

All tracks by )-(u||!c|< except track 4 by J.S. Bach

 

ONE

HYPNO-KENSHO     9:18

(2.5 minutes compressed)

 

TWO

THE BALLAD OF JAMIE WHITE     13:33

 

THREE

AND THEN SHE SAID “WE ARE BANDIDOS OF LIGHT FLUNG AGAINST THE NIGHT”     6:50

 

FOUR

PRELUDE 6, D MINOR (THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER) J.S. BACH     17:00

 

FIVE

GOODNIGHT MUNKENS     2:53

 

SIX

FERRET MIND      7:22

 

SEVEN

SCATTERMAN     9:08

 

EIGHT

TILL HUMAN VOICES WAKES US     3:32

 

The project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its funding and advisory body.

With thanks to the Michael Kieran Harvey Scholarship for Piano.